Hitchhiking in Israel
In Israel, hitchhiking is commonplace at designated locations called trempiyadas (טרמפיאדה in Hebrew, derived from the German trampen). Travelers soliciting rides, called trempists, wait at trempiyadas, typically junctions of highways or main roads outside of a city. At a very large trempiadas, it is not uncommon for people to line up according to their destination of choice.
The typical hand signal in Israel is to point to the ground with the hand far from the body, instead of raising a thumb.
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