The first day of the operation of the crossing lane on Route 1 to Jerusalem (Michael Dimenstein, PM)
Even after the establishment of the new government and the return of the ultra-orthodox parties to the coalition, the railway works continue on Shabbat.
Last night (Saturday) work was seen on the track on the Ayalon lines in Tel Aviv, in the section between Savidor station and Herzliya station.
These are maintenance works that can only be carried out when the track is shut down from traffic, and are added to those that the railway announced last week as part of the completion of the electrification of the Palestine track between Ashkelon and Rehovot.
From the video and the train's announcement it appears that despite the preliminary announcements, there has been no change in the policy of approving works on Shabbat by the labor arm of the Ministry of Economy.
This, despite 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 issuing work permits on Shabbat.
Following the continuation of the works, the chairman of Torah Judaism Yitzhak Goldknopf sent a letter to the Minister of Transportation Miri Regev, in which he called on her to "get into the thick of the beam in order to stop the works on Shabbat immediately". In the letter, which was also sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the heads of the coalition parties, Goldknopf wrote that the works "They do not meet the definition of mind control at all" and made it clear, "we cannot put up with this situation".
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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 and its foreign employees, and external contractors of the railway, with non-Jewish workers, while Jews employed in the activity work in accordance with the approvals the railway received from the labor branch of the Ministry of Economy.
At the same time, Transport Minister Miri Regev made a U-turn regarding the future underground train in the central region, the metro project.
After announcing at the beginning of the week that it would not support the promotion of the metro until the completion of a heavy rail line to Kiryat Shmona and Eilat, tomorrow the government will discuss a joint proposal by the Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, which should give a big boost to the project.
Promote the metro, despite the statements.
Regev (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
According to the proposal, continuity will be applied to the metro bill that was approved in the previous Knesset in first reading at the initiative of previous Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli, and approved for second and third reading by the Committee on National Enterprises, headed by MK Yulia Malinovski (Israel Beitenu). After the Bennett-Lapid government lost its majority in the Knesset after With the retirement of Idit Silman, Binyamin Netanyahu refused to allow the Likud Knesset members to support the approval of the law in the plenum, which resulted in its freezing.
Now, after winning the elections, the Netanyahu government has begun to promote the project. But for a one-year delay in the approval of the law, which was planned to go to second and third reading in the previous winter session, There is already a price in the schedule. Haim Glick, CEO of NATA, which plans the metro and is supposed to lead its construction, said last month that the current schedule for the project is for partial operation in 2034 and full operation only in 2037. Until a year ago there was a deadline The opening about the year 2032.
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