Some of the improvements in service Israel Railways is aspiring to depend on the widening of the tracks and the railway’s electrification system, which has taken over two decades to implement.
World’s Deepest Underground Synagogue Connects Material and Spiritual
New synagogue dedicated in central station of Tel Aviv-Jerusalem rail line
For the more than 7,000 daily passengers who travel on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv heavy rail line, Yitzhak Navon Station is the gateway to Jerusalem. Located adjacent to the Central Bus Station and the largest convention center in the Middle East, Binyanei HaUma, the station is a central hub of the public transportation system. On June 8, it hosted an inauguration ceremony for a new synagogue located conveniently in the heart of the station.
“There was tremendous demand for a synagogue here,” says Rabbi
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May. 30, 2021 12:06 AM
To understand how terrible the current government is, and how critical it is to replace it with one that has not been corrupted, just take a look at the Transportation Ministry. This important ministry, which is headed by Miri Regev, is supposed to be taking on one of Israel’s worst economic problems – the horrific traffic congestion, which harms national productivity and growth. Everywhere you look, however, what you find is a constant obsession with making electoral hay; scorn for the ministry’s professional staff; political appointments and a culture of acceding to the minister’s whims (Avi Bar-Eli, Haaretz Hebrew, May 26).