Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai this morning (Monday) helped clear a traffic jam that had formed on Highway 1, this after one of the vehicles on the spot caught fire and endangered passers-by. Shabtai arrived at the point where the vehicle that caught fire was treated, after walking a distance of about two kilometers from the place where the vehicle stopped traveled

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He began to direct the traffic on the spot, in order to release the traffic jam and prevent harm to civilians due to the spread of the fire. A few months ago, while he was making his way to his home near the Nachshonim junction, the Commissioner was rescued and assisted in a car accident that happened there.

Weeks earlier, at almost the same intersection, he joined a chase led by Central District police officers for a car thief who escaped from a police checkpoint and hit a police volunteer who was standing at the checkpoint, until the car thief was arrested.