Israel’s transport minister proposed on Wednesday linking its freight railway network with Jordan and Saudi Arabia and said he presented the idea to President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy last month. Under the proposal, goods could travel by rail from Israel’s Mediterranean port of Haifa through Jordan to Saudi Arabia’s Gulf port of Dammam via…
(JTA) — Austria’s chancellor praised workers of his country’s railway company for what he called their outsize resistance to Nazism during the Holocaust. Christian Kern’s praise for the partisans of the Austrian federal railways, or BBO, appeared in a statement he penned for an exhibition about the firm’s role during the Holocaust that opened last…
JERUSALEM — Israel Railways can do repair and construction work on Shabbat, at least temporarily, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled. The interim ruling issued Tuesday prevents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ordering a halt to the Saturday work, according to reports. Lawmaker Zahava Galon, head of the left-wing Meretz party, had filed a petition to have…
When trains depart from Haifa in the fall along a new Israeli railway that stops only miles from the Jordanian border, it could revive not only trade but dreams of peace. “We always thought that this line symbolizes peace with the region,” Ilan Rozenfeld, the project director told the Wall Street Journal. “We have been…
Three Israelis were killed and five others seriously injured when their minibus collided with a train at a railroad crossing in a village in central Switzerland, Swiss police said on Monday. Police in the canton of Nidwalden said they were alerted to the collision at the crossing in Wolfenschiessen at 0640 GMT. No one on…
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