Israel Safety

Last night being Lag B'Omer, our school did its own bonfire in a random construction site on a street corner. No permits, no official permission, made by two girls who learnt it in summer camp, no problems. That's Israel for you.
But the really exciting thing about the whole holiday is that every kid in Israel gets to have his own class bonfire. They spend weeks collecting wood and posting gaurds so other kids won't steal their stashes and then build themselves huge pyramids of wood. After our bonfire, we took a stroll through the neighborhood. It was past 11, so the fires were starting to die down, but they were still huge and there was one every couple of yards. There were no grown-ups anywhere involved in the supervision, building, or safety of the fires. Wait, that's not true; by one, there was a man selling cotton candy.
Every so often, police cars would come by, but they never felt the need to stop. I was told by a friend that in Har Nof, a neighborhood of Jerusalem a couple miles away, the police have to knock down about half of the bonfires because the children build them on the edge of the forest, high enough to mess with the electrical wires.
The thing is, though, I didn't see any injuries or hear of any fires or problems with this low-supervision system. It makes me even more convinced that America is over-regulated and over-supervised. The Israeli kids seem to do just fine without any of it.