Light rail

We are about to pour hundreds of billions into a project fit for yesterday

Israel has invested over the years in irrelevant technology. The current megalomaniacal project, the light rail, will quickly turn into a failure that will cost us hundreds of billions.

The Tel Aviv Light Rail. Who will ride all these trains?
The Elifelet Light Rail station in Tel Aviv. November 17, 2024.

Grapevine: Light rail, hefty price

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest against construction work on the Jerusalem Light Rail in the Bar-Ilan area of Jerusalem, June 8, 2026.

Protesters block Jerusalem roads, target light rail construction site

Ultra orthoodx jewish men block a road during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, in Jerusalem, July 1, 2026; Illustrative.

Haredi protesters disrupt light rail construction, block traffic on Jerusalem's Bar Ilan Street


Rav Kav travel cards to be reinstated for east Jerusalem residents

Residents of east Jerusalem have not been able to use Rav Kav cards since the beginning of 2020 after then-transportation minister Bezalel Smotrich announced an expected year-long pause.

Rav Kav 521

This week in Jerusalem: Getting high

A round-up of city affairs.

KADOSH CAFÉ has made the move to Tzohar kashrut certification

Jerusalem's light rail: CityPass out, CFIR in

Some interesting changes have already arrived with the new management.

Israelis are seen boarding the light rail on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem after the coronavirus lockdown ends, on February 8, 2021.

Jerusalem's light rail: CityPass out, CFIR in

Some interesting changes have already arrived with the new management.

People walk near the light rail in the centre of Jerusalem

This week in Jerusalem - A round-up of city affairs

What has been going on in Israel's capital this week?

LARGER WASTE receptacles will help eliminate the trash accumulating on the tayelet

Jerusalem snow: Schools to start late Thursday - full details

The city’s light rail began operation at 7:00 a.m.

Jerusalem awakes to snow, February 18, 2021

First tender for Jerusalem's new light rail line published

The Blue Line is being jointly developed and promoted by the city of Jerusalem, its municipal government, the Transportation Ministry, and the Moriah company.

Israelis are seen boarding the light rail on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem after the coronavirus lockdown ends, on February 8, 2021.

Haredi protests in Jerusalem continue against light rail construction

The protesters, numbering in the hundreds, at Bar Ilan Junction, burned garbage cans and blocked the road, as well as damaged passing vehicles and the current construction areas of the light rail.

Haredi protesters burn garbage in protest of the light rail construction in their ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021.

This week in Jerusalem - A round-up of city affairs

What has been going on in Israel's capital this week?

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN with Hadassah director-general Prof. Zeev Rotstein.

Tel Aviv turns abandoned railroad into modern linear park

Tel Aviv’s Ottoman-era railroad Park Hamesila on track to connect Jaffa and downtown

Park Hamesila follows a 5-km. stretch along the railway tracks.