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The railway lines could cross the Samar Sands Nature Reserve in southern Israel. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
August 13, 2025, 9:58 am
Planners invite public to online hearing on controversial Dimona-Eilat rail proposal
Society for Protection of Nature in Israel slams project, set to cut through some of Israel’s most stunning landscapes, as ‘one of the most destructive in recent years’
By Sue Surkes
Left: A ZAKA volunteer cleans blood stains from a roadside bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered on October 7, near the Gaza border, November 19, 2023. Right: A repainted roadside bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered during the October 7 Hamas onslaught, near the Gaza border, January 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 15, 2024, 11:51 am
Families shocked by repainted Oct. 7 shelters; official said to call complaints ‘petty’
Survivors, relatives appalled by government-owned firm’s unilateral erasure of the silent testimony of charred walls inside roadside bomb shelters where dozens were murdered by Hamas
By ToI Staff
Charges shaped like a Star of David are detonated in a controlled explosion to clear rocks in the Golan Heights on August 29, 2023 (Screencapture/ Channel 12: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 1, 2023, 10:06 am
Controlled explosion in Golan Heights one of largest ever in Israel
Detonation near Sussita undertaken to remove large amounts of basalt rock that threatened to crash down onto a road
By ToI Staff
(L) MK David Amsalem in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022; and (R) Michal Rosenbaum. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Finance Ministry)
August 7, 2023, 9:37 am
Amsalem accused of illegitimate demands as he moves to fire government firms’ head
Minister asks for dismissal of Michal Rosenbaum, claiming she’s unsuitable for the job; Government Companies Authority director says she will not be cowed by threats
By ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, center, seen during an opening ceremony of Route 16 at the entrance to Jerusalem on August 31, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 31, 2022, 5:11 pm
New entrance to Jerusalem opens, spurring hopes for eased congestion
Route 16 connects Route 1 directly to the south and west of the city; Egged announces new high-frequency line between southern Jerusalem and central Tel Aviv
By Ash Obel
An ancient Roman Jewish farm discovered in the Galilee, with an intact ritual bath that was moved to nearby Kibbutz Hannaton in September 2020 (Courtesy Ibrahim/Israel Antiquities Authority)
September 30, 2020, 7:37 pm
Northern community successfully transfers ancient ritual bath to new home
Kibbutz Hannaton in the Jezreel Valley raised hundreds of thousands of shekels needed to move 57-ton Roman-era mikveh discovered during highway construction
By Jessica Steinberg
Migrating Gray Cranes at the Agmon Hula Lake in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, November 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
August 9, 2020, 5:40 pm
Water authority joins scheme to turn off lights, help wildlife at night
Mekorot to keep most of its plants dark in nighttime hours to save money, minimize light pollution that disrupts animal behavior
By Sue Surkes
Hannaton kibbutz members Haviva Ner-David (left), Anat Harrel, and Steve Gray with archaeologists at the Roman-era mikveh discovered in the Jezreel Valley in July 2020. (courtesy, Jessica Steinberg)
July 23, 2020, 1:37 pm
Discovery of ancient ritual bath spurs nearby kibbutz to try to save it
Kibbutz Hannaton is spearheading a fundraising effort to move a Roman-era mikveh to its land, where it would join the pluralistic ritual bath
By Jessica Steinberg
A motorist guides his Porsche convertible along a nearly-empty South University Boulevard, April 5, 2020, in Cherry Hills Village, Colo. (AP/David Zalubowski)
May 18, 2020, 4:36 pm
Porsche joins forces with Israeli smart car startup to ‘feel the road’ better
German sports car maker to integrate Tactile Mobility’s software to give cars better road grip; announcement comes during EcoMotion smart mobility conference, held virtually
By Shoshanna Solomon
Dr. Yehuda Govrin, director of the excavations at Tel Beit Shemesh, March 17, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
March 21, 2019, 12:33 pm
In Beit Shemesh, new highway collides with surprise biblical-era settlement
Unusual exhibit at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, ‘Highway to History,’ examines the State of Israel’s fraught attempts to balance preserving the past and developing the future
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: The Jerusalem Light Rail passing the Notre Dame Pontifical Institute. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
March 15, 2018, 5:42 pm
Transportation minister pushing for West Bank light rail
Israel Katz asks transit authority to assess three route options; all three reach the city-settlement of Ariel and will likely extend to flashpoint Tapuah Junction
By Jacob Magid
A driver of one of Netivei Israel's new mobile units places a traffic cone on a highway in Israel. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
December 3, 2017, 12:18 am
Highway patrolman races couple to wedding after car breaks down
Seeing groom and bride stranded on Route 4, road worker gets permission to decorate his vehicle and escort them to the ceremony
By ToI Staff
Israel's Transporation Minister Yisrael Katz, center, stands with Netivei Israel CEO Shai Baras, later arrested for cronyism, as they inspect the construction of a new highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, on June 12, 2013. (Flash 90)
November 23, 2017, 5:40 am
Plum jobs for political cronies no longer easy pickings, says ex-regulator
4 years after reform governing who can run state-owned firms, ministers can’t use top posts to cozy up to special interest groups, says Ori Yogev. But will it stick?
By Marissa Newman
Rescue workers and police at the scene where part of a pedestrian bridge collapsed on a truck on Highway 4 near Givat Shmuel, August 14, 2017. (Moti arelitz/Flash90)
August 15, 2017, 10:26 am
Route 4 reopens after fatal bridge collapse
Victim, named as Ali Hai Tadri, removed from crushed truck cab; national road authority says vehicle’s partially extended crane collided with overpass as it passed underneath
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
View of the new Harel tunnels on Route 1, the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, on January 19, 2017. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 20, 2017, 9:48 am
Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway reopens with new tunnels, bridge
Harel interchange set to slash travel time between Israel’s two major cities; Netanyahu hails ‘historic’ improvement
By ToI Staff
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