Driving Test Passed On 36th Attempt

Wed., March 26, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

Four decades after she first started trying, an 82-year-old Israeli woman finally passed her driver’s test on her 36th attempt.

The Transport Ministry license bureau in the town of Ashdod south of Tel Aviv called in Shulamit Dezhin to give her the good news. Dezhin received her license Tuesday, and plans to frame it.

Dezhin told the Maariv newspaper that she had always been an excellent driver, “but when I took the test I always got uptight and confused.

“I wasted tens of thousands of shekels on driving lessons, but I always believed that one day I would pass.”

Dezhin originally wanted to get her license so she could drive to Tel Aviv to visit her ailing parents, the Jerusalem Post said.

“They’re dead now, but I will be able to drive with my grandchildren,” she said.

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