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December 10, 2022 (Israel Railways)
Infrastructure work on Israel's railways continues to be carried out on Saturdays, despite the coalition agreements of the new government.
The railway announced last night (Tuesday) a series of projects to complete the electrification of the Palestine Railway between Ashkelon and Rehovot, which will be carried out on weekends.
This is the first announcement of such works since the establishment of the new government, the exchange between Merav Michaeli and Miri Regev in the position of Minister of Transportation, and the signing of the coalition agreement between Likud and Torah Judaism, according to which a representative of the Chief Rabbinate will be attached to the committee for granting work permits on Shabbat.
The electrification works include Saturday work that takes advantage of the shutdown of the lines on weekends, which allows equipment and workers to be brought in to install the electrification equipment around the tracks.
The works are mainly carried out by the employees of the Spanish SEMI company and its foreign employees, and external contractors of the railway, with non-Jewish workers, when Jews employed in the activity work in accordance with the approvals received by the railway from the labor branch of the Ministry of Economy.
Israel Railways (photo: Yaniv Khalif, Yaniv Khalif)
In the coming weeks, the train is expected to complete the electrification infrastructure between the Netanya and Neymina stations, which will allow the resumption of train service in the evenings and Fridays on the coastal line as well as between the North, Haifa and Tel Aviv stations.
The train is also expected to complete the electrification of the line traveling between the Ashkelon and Rehovot stations ( Fleslat Railway), and is being prepared for the operation of the Binyamina-Tel'a-Rehovot-Ashkelon line using new electric trains.
The works will include connecting rails to the railway electrical network and works to raise the height of the platform and reduce the boarding space for the train, in order to increase the convenience of using the Siemens electric trains that were ordered previously, even though they are not suitable for the height of the platforms in Israel.
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Changes in train traffic and free shuttles
Due to the works that will take place between the late evening hours of Thursdays and the early hours of Sunday morning, in the coming weeks there will be changes in train traffic on the weekends only in the area of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Yavneh, Rehovot, Beer Ya'akov and Lod;
A set of free shuttles will be available to passengers.
Trains on the Rehovot Netanya line: on Thursdays starting at 22:00 (approximately) until Sunday with the resumption of service early in the morning on the dates: 5-8.1.23, 12-15.1.23, 19-22.1.23, 26-29.1.23 it will start and end You will travel from the south at the Lod station and you will not stop at the Yavne Mizrah, Beer Ya'akov and Rehovot stations.
During these days and hours the Rehovot, Yavne Mizrah and Beer Ya'akov stations will be temporarily closed to service and a free shuttle service will be provided.
Trains on the Ashkelon-Rashaltz Moshe Dayan-Herzliya line: Thursdays on 5.1, 12.1, 19.1, 26.1 starting at 22:00 (approximately) until the end of the service on these days - they will start and end their journey from the south at the Roshaltz Moshe Dayan station, and not It will stop at the stations of Ashkelon, Ashdod to Hell and Yavne West.
On Fridays and Mochas on the dates 13-14.1, 27-28.1 during all hours of operation, the trains will start and end their journey from the south at the Moshe Dayan Rashalz station, and will not stop at the Ashkelon, Ashdod Ad Halum and Yavne Merab stations.
During these days and hours the Ashkelon, Ashdod to the West, Yavne West stations will be temporarily closed to service and a free shuttle service will be provided.
The service will operate in both directions between the Moshe Dayan-Yevna West stations-Ashdod until the Lum-Ashkelon stations, between the Rehovot-Be'er Ya'akov-Lod stations and between the Yavne West-Sderot-Netivot-Ofakim-Be'er Sheva stations. Train traffic will return to normal every Sunday upon renewal of the service.
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