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The State Opening of Parliament is a ceremony loaded with historical ritual and symbolic significance for the governance of the United Kingdom. In one place are assembled the members of all three branches of government, of which the Monarch is the nominal head in each case: the Crown-in-Parliament, (Her Majesty, together with the House of Commons and the House of Lords), constitutes the legislature; Her Majesty’s Ministers (who are members of one or other House) constitute the executive; Her Majesty’s Judges, although not members of either House, are summoned to attend and represent the judiciary. Therefore, the State Opening demonstrates the governance of the United Kingdom but also the separation of powers. The importance of international relations is also represented through the presenceBridge collapses on truck near the Geha interchange on Highway 4. Driver pronounced dead.

A 60-year-old man was killed on Monday evening when a truck collided with a bridge over Highway 4 near Givat Shmuel, causing the pedestrian bridge to collapse onto the road.

The bridge crosses the major north-south highway, going from the eastern Givat Shmuel side to the western Bnei Brak side.

The truck was pulled from underneath the ruins of the bridge shortly before midnight, some four hours after the collision. Magen David Adom paramedics then pronounced the 60-year-old truck driver dead.

The rescue operation lasted four hours due to the fact that the bridge collapsed on the front of the truck and crushed it completely.

The police blocked Highway 4 between the Mesubim interchange and Aluf Sadeh interchange in