Light rail

A city in transit: Muddling through Jerusalem’s light rail construction

This isn’t just about inconvenience. It’s about how an entire city’s population – that of the capital, no less – has had to fundamentally restructure their lives overnight.

 Red Line service is suspended for 14 weeks on the heavily used stretch of light rail linking the city center to the Central Bus Station.
 US Ambassador Mike Huckabee addresses the media outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025.

Grapevine: Huckabee's here

 Red Line service was off track for much of this past Monday.

Off track: How Jerusalem light rail expansion, woes frustrate commuters

 ADIR SCHWARTZ, new head of Hitorerut.

Grapevine: Deputy mayor on a mission


Grapevine: Message for Miri

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev.

Light rail, heavy costs: Jerusalem commuters protest transportation price hikes

Prices increased from NIS 6 to NIS 8 at the end of February, an increase of over 30%, with no significant change to the service provided.

View of the Light rail on Jaffa Street in central Jerusalem. March 5, 2025.

Grapevine: Hello, Americans

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Pisgat Ze'ev Center Mall and light rail station.

Jerusalem Red Line extension awaits ribbon cutting

The Jerusalem transportation master plan team responsible for building the Jerusalem light rail had planned to open the extension on Tuesday, but the trains remain parked in the depot.

  Signage at a light rail stop in Jerusalem indicate that the line is closed due to expansion work.

Light rail, heavy headache: What Jerusalemites think of the light rail construction

The Red Line was suspended for five days this past week. Beyond the inconvenience, where do the municipality and Jerusalemites stand on construction of the new lines to come?

  Signage at a light rail stop in Jerusalem indicate that the line is closed due to expansion work.

No trains, only tests: Jerusalem Light Rail suspended for expansion

Starting on February 9, the light rail system will be required to conduct a series of safety tests in order to obtain the necessary permits to meet international regulations.

 Pisgat Ze'ev Center Mall and light rail station.

Light rail construction may have caused rising flea-borne typhus cases in Tel Aviv

Light rail construction in Tel Aviv causes many problems, but this is one of the most worrying. What do we know about Murine typhus?

Coming up off the ground due to light rail construction

This week in Jerusalem: Red or Green?

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 LIGHT RAIL’S Red Line extension: Delayed.

This week in Jerusalem: We have a winner

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 EVERY PASSENGER is a story on the Jerusalem light rail.

An old artillery shell causes traffic chaos in southern Jerusalem

Experts in the disposal of unexploded ordnance removed the shells.

 Artillery shells found during construction work in Jerusalem. September 19, 2023

Letters to the Editor, September 6, 2023: A good rabbi

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters