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Light Rail

Travel / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Plans for Massive New Greater Tel Aviv Rail Lines Moving Forward

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The metro network will include three lines, 150 km of underground tracks and 109 stations.

Israel / News Briefs

Tel Aviv Light Rail Opens to the Public This Morning

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The Red Line's 34 stations run from Bat Yam through Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan and Petach Tikva.

Photo of the Day

Digging a Hole to China

By Photo of the Day

Digging the tunnel for the Tel Aviv Light Rail.

Photo of the Day

Ni Hao

By Photo of the Day

Chinese workers kick off the Tel Aviv light rail.

Op-Eds

Let Us Violate Shabbat So As To Sanctify It

By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The Holy Day vs. the Tel Aviv Railway Construction - Can both sides win, or must both sides lose?

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Light Rail Guard Prevents Stabbing Attack at Jerusalem Bus Station

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Cleared for publication: Arab teenager from Old City took a large knife from home to murder Jews.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Jerusalem Arabs Terrorize Light Rail Train - Again

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jerusalem Arabs threw rocks at the Jerusalem Light Rail train on the route that passes through the Arab Shuafat neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. The train sustained damage, but no one was injured. Arab attackers object to the light rail passing through "occupied" territory" and making it easier for saner Arabs to travel to and from […]

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs / Intifada

Police Bring 1000 More Police/Border Guards To Jerusalem

By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency

The riots turned from property damage to attempts to harm innocents quickly.

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Jerusalem

US Bans Embassy Personnel from Part of Jerusalem Light Rail Route

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has prohibited its personnel from riding the Jerusalem light rail train from French Hill to Pisgat Ze’ev, in northern Jerusalem, for 30 days because of the terrorist attack this week that killed a three-year-old American-Israeli. It was a typical U.S. Embassy reaction – every time there is a serious […]

Terrorism / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Baby Killed in Suspected Jerusalem Terror Ramming Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

The baby that was injured in the suspected terror attack this evening died in the hospital.

News Briefs / Jerusalem

Jerusalem Light Rail System Back in Operation but Woes Pile Up

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jerusalem’s light rail system is back in operation for the first time since the “snowstorm of the century” shut it down and crippled the capital last Thursday, but the city’s problems are far from over. Thousands of cars are blocked in by plowed snow, and pedestrians often walk in the middle of the street instead of […]

Shiloh Musings

Life in Jerusalem: Delays on the Light Rail

By Batya Medad

In the center of Jerusalem, on Jaffa Road, the train is frequently as crowded as the NYC subway at rush hour.

My Right Word

Beinart Lies About the Jerusalem Light Rail

By Yisrael Medad

Peter Beinart now has the Jerusalem Light Rail, which services Arab neighborhoods, in his cross hairs.

A Soldier's Mother

Train Nice

By Paula R. Stern

Living in Israel is often a study on kindness between people.

Analysis

Jerusalem's Light Rail train is Not Segregated

By David Ha'ivri

The track passes though and stops in both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods. I have taken the train and noticed that both Jews and Arabs are regular commuters. All of the train’s signs, tickets, ticket machines, and public announcements are made very clearly in both Hebrew and Arabic. Signs of station names are posted in both Hebrew and Arabic.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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