As Israel braces for attack, ordinary citizens fear that Netanyahu has destroyed a country and a dream
On Tel Aviv's light rail, a woman older than the State of Israel has to depend on the kindness of strangers
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail system is finally opening. But not on Shabbat.
Officials had said until recently that the trains would run on Shabbat in Israel’s secular center
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Fast Forward Palestinian Charged With Murder In Jerusalem Light Rail Stabbing
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian man who stabbed a British woman to death on the Jerusalem light rail was charged with premeditated murder. The indictment against Jamil Tamimi, 57, of the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem, was filed Thursday by the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office. Hannah Bladon, 21, who died of her injuries after…
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News British Woman, 20, Killed In Stabbing Attack In Jerusalem
A 20-year-old British woman was killed during a knife attack allegedly perpetrated by a Palestinian in Jerusalem. The woman was taken to hospital in critical condition following the incident Friday aboard the city’s light rail, Israel Radio reported. She was stabbed by a 57-year-old man from the Ras al Amud neighborhood in the city’s east,…
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Israel News Tel Aviv Train Is Coming Despite Fears of Rats and ‘Carmaggedon’
In 1936, Israeli poet Nathan Alterman was already bemoaning Tel Aviv’s lack of a subway. The “underground dream” of the new city, he wrote in Haaretz, had “evaporated.” Lamenting the transportation system in Israel’s metropolis has practically become a national pastime, as government inaction has delayed such a project for decades. But now, 79 years…
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Breaking News Police Shoot Jerusalem Light Rail Knife Attacker
Israeli security guards shot and wounded a Palestinian who tried to stab one of them on Monday at a light railway station in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, police said. “He attempted to stab one of the guards,” a police spokeswoman said. “The security guards fired in the air, and then at his legs, slightly wounding him.”…
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Breaking News Israel Destroys Home of Car-Ram Terror Suspect
A day after two militants killed four rabbis and a policeman at a synagogue, Israel on Wednesday destroyed the home of a Palestinian who last month ran over and killed two people at a Jerusalem tram stop, The home of Abdel-Rahman Shaloudi, 21, was blown up before dawn, police and the military said. East Jerusalem…
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Breaking News Jerusalem Light Rail Draws Fine Line Through Bitterly Divided Holy City
If there has been a constant target during weeks of unrest in Jerusalem, it is the divided city’s Light Rail, a sleek tram that snakes through downtown, past the ancient walls of the Old City, symbolically uniting Jewish West and Arab East. Launched in 2011 after years of delays and budget overruns, the French-Israeli project…
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