(IsraelNN.com) Anti-expulsion activists have widened the scope of their activities to include combating road deaths due to car accidents, embarking on a campaign funded by the Yesha Council.

Hundreds of national-religious yeshiva and seminary students will hand out literature and bumper stickers about motor-safety at intersections across the country in the coming weeks.

In an article in the Yesha Shelanu weekly newsletter placed in synagogues throughout the country, it was noted that in the year 2006, "terrorists killed 23 citizens and members of the security forces, as opposed to 466 people killed on the roads. The main enemy is car accidents.”

The newsletter is published by the Yesha Council of Judea, Samaria and Gaza Communities.

The campaign was launched following a particularly severe accident in the Har Hevron region over a week ago, in which Rabbi Avraham and Simcha Cohen-Or were killed and their 15-year-old daughter Gittit seriously injured. Gittit’s condition has declined in the past week and her relatives are asking the public to pray on behalf of "Gittit bat [daughter of] Simcha."

“Preventing road accidents is a national mission and we must be drafted to the cause with all the energy reserves possessed by our camp,” the Yesha Council article continued.

In addition to distributing literature, activists plan on setting up booths at which citizens will be asked to make a personal commitment to abide by traffic laws. They will also hold classes in religious schools on the matter, in addition to Torah classes at local synagogues on the Jewish legal obligations inherent to road safety.