Getting an Israeli driver's license (WAS: Re: I've failed my driving test!)

[snazzzybird]

> Amanar:
> I'm from Israel, so even if I did give you my exact address, I 
doubt 
> it would have mattered much ;) (I'm feeling much better thanks to 
> you guys)
><snip>
> We can't learn from our parents, we need to take lessons from a 
> licensed teacher, at least 28 before we can take the test. You 
need 
> to have passed the written exam before you take the practical one, 
> and if you fail either one you have to wait 14 days before you're 
> allowed to try again. 
> 
> And you don't score points on the practical exam as well. It's 
just 
> the impression you leave on your tester. 

snazzzybird pops out of lurkdom to say --

My son just got his Israeli driver's license a little over a week 
ago.  He's 24 and moved to Israel from the midwestern US, so he'd 
already been driving for 9 years -- the last few of them in 
Chicago!  He was still required to take at least one lesson, and 
then it was at the instructor's discretion whether to clear him to 
take the test or require further lessons.  To Firstborn's relief, 
his instructor cleared him after the second lesson.  He'd already 
gotten a physical and an eye exam and presented that paperwork, and 
passed the written test.  When he took the driving test, he was 
pretty sure he'd done okay, but still worried about it while he 
waited for the results.  That was another surprise: in the US they 
tell you immediately whether you passed or failed, but he had to 
wait five hours to find out.  As he put it, it was an "intense" five 
hours!

--snazzzybird, who is endlessly fascinated to hear how things are 
done in other countries