Terrorism and road deaths

Sunday night two Palestinian terrorists from Gaza climbed over the security wall (20 feet high) for the first time using a rope ladder, attacked an Israeli security facility with grenades and gunfire, and then went to attack an Israeli village, but were caught and killed before they could do so. They were from the Popular Resistance Committees sponsored by Hizbollah. Monday 6 youths followed their path, and were captured. Perhaps their handlers thought that the IDF would relax after the previous night's action. However, these youth were unarmed and claimed they had climbed the wall looking for work! It is part of the same pattern established by Hizbollah from Lebanon to send in (disposable) youths to act as spotters, to check the defenses and IDF readiness.
Prior to this, at least 9 terrorists have been killed in the past week, most of them near the Gaza border fence, or squads firing rockets or mortars into Israel. Although the IDF has been notably successful in countering these actions, there is no doubt that this represents a significant surge in terrorist activity from Gaza. Analysts are of the opinion that this surge represents the first wave of Hamas-organized actions against Israel since taking over Gaza and warn that these are probes for a much larger wave of terrorist infiltration into Israel in the near future. This includes a significant increase in the digging of large tunnels that have been used successfully before, for example to kidnap Cpl Shalit. This raises the question, for how long can Israel continue to rely purely on defensive actions, without taking offensive action to cut off the wave of terrorists before they attack.
As bad and as dangerous as the terrorist situation in Gaza is, the carnage on Israeli roads is much more lethal. This week 15 Israelis were killed in road accidents. Last night a family of 4 from Netanya were wiped out in a single car crash due to speeding at night while driving drunk and without seat belts. There have also been several head on collisions between cars and trucks. In 2007 so far 208 Israelis have been killed on the roads and nearly 1,000 injured! Unfortunately this is far more than the number of victims of terrorism, and the Cabinet discussed road safety today, and agreed on various actions, including the reinstatement of a previous budget cut of NIS 150 milllion and the establishment of a nation-wide speed-camera network, that has been discussed for a long time. Finally as the death toll mounts the Israeli Govt. may start to take this dreadful situation seriously.