If anyone is interested in emergency lights used on vehicles. You can click this link to some of the pics I have taken and posted to GoL.

The link is here: http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=309

I would have uploaded some on here but why repeat something that's already on the web? You can either join GoL to comment or you can comment on here and link the pic you're commenting about. That's up to you.  Hope you enjoy them. 

Seems that in the US, distress lights are significantly different then in Israel (And probably the rest of the world).
In Israel, distress lights are nothing but operating of both blinkers (Instead of only one as used for signaling), by pressing the red button of distress lights which have a symbol of a triangle inside a triangle.
Based on your pictures from your link, it seems that the vehicles that sold in the US have a seperate distress lights.
Also, unrelated to this subject but still related to this topic, as well as to automotive lights, fog lights are considered illegal in Israel, and operating them may result in a fine and even in a revocation of the license and removing of the vehicle from the road.
Similarly, recently, alarms for vehicles are also ejected out from the law, due to the nuisances that they are causes, and that the fact that most of their operations are false alarms.

The lights shown in his link are different than the hazard or distress lights.  Hazard lights operate all turn signals at once, and are operated by a switch marked the two triangles, located either in the center of the dash (newer cars) or on the steering column (older cars).

The lights shown on his link are installed on emergency response vehicles, such as fire and EMS vehicles.  They are tightly regulated as to what lights can be used (maximum and minimum), as well as when and how they can be used, and even what color they can, cannot and must be.  They can ONLY be installed on authorized emergency response vehicles.  Also, often when such vehicles are retired and sold off, they must be stripped of their additional lighting.

Almost all of those pictured in the link above appeared to be mounted on ambulances.

@icefoglights: Only now, i noticed this.
I now entered to his gallery, to see, that these lamps aren't distress lights at all, but emergency lights for emergency vehicles (Ambulances, fire patrol vehicles and police patrol vehicles).
These lamps are at least, similar to the emergency lamps on our emergency vehicles in Israel.
Sorry for the mistake.

Well it was certainly interesting to read your post about fog lights and auto alarms being not legal in Israel.  The fog light ban is a bit puzzling but I agree that those car alarms can sure get tiresome to listen to!

Car alarms are pointless imo. There's so many false alarms with the silly things that no one pays any attention to them.

Fog lights are really only needed if you get fog and mist regularly. A country like Israel is mostly very dry, so not much fog or mist, and any that there is dissipates very fast. It is very distracting driving at night and the clueless nitwit in front has them turned on, and the whole road behind is a red glare, even on a clear night.

Car alarms have gotten a lot more reliable, here most of the time they only go off when the car is being broken into.

Here (CZ, but i guess same or equivalent is valid for whole Europe) you are not allowed to use fog lights, except of fog, snow and/or heavy rain. So in dry nights it is illegal to drive with fog lights ON here too...
And at night (on dark roads) i do not like rear fog lights at all, as the regular tail light are visible enough in the darkness and fog lights make "red wall" (if you are driving at foggy night behind a vehicle with rear fog lights ON) around the vehicle, so you can not see, what is going in front of it.