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An Israel Railways train (illustrative photo: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
March 10, 2019, 6:08 pm
Railway employees disrupt services as dispute over work conditions sharpens
Some train services halted after Israel Railways introduces new schedule for train drivers; Histadrut warns of more delays
By TOI staff
Israel Railways CEO Shahar Ayalon, center, with Israeli Minister of Transportation Israel Katz, right, during a test drive of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv express train in central Israel, January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 17, 2018, 5:19 pm
End of the line for Israel Railways chief amid mounting service failures
Shahar Ayalon ousted as frequent disruptions plague trains, including Jerusalem-airport fast track, and financial losses mount
By TOI staff
Illustrative: An Israel Railways train passes the Ayalon Highway, near the Arlozorov Street 'Central' train station in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 27, 2017, 8:05 am
After more than a week, Tel Aviv train stations reopen
The shutdown of three main stations for construction for the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv express line caused massive traffic delays in the area
By TOI staff
The Carmel fire raging through the forest on December 2, 2010. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90)
February 2, 2016, 8:26 pm
Israel is top of the world in fire safety, says fire chief
Just nine people died from fires nationwide in 2015, fire and rescue commissioner Shahar Ayalon tells Knesset
By TOI staff
A firefighting plane tries to extinguish a large brush fire behind the the Russian Church in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 26, 2014, 11:17 pm
Jerusalem fire said caused by negligence
Police say hikers failed to extinguish bonfire, causing major blaze near capital’s Ein Kerem neighborhood
By TOI staff
A firefighter seen trying to extinguish a large fire raging near Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood on June 25, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
June 26, 2014, 10:24 am
Arson, negligence probed in huge Jerusalem blaze
Fire chief says forest had been allowed to grow too densely and should have been cleared out
By Lazar Berman
A firefighting plane tries to extinguish a large brush fire behind the the Russian Church in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 25, 2014, 9:29 pm
Firefighters subdue Ein Kerem blaze; arson suspected
Hundreds evacuated, 3 lightly injured as forest near historic area goes up in flames
By Lazar Berman
A firefighting plane tries to extinguish a large brush fire behind the the Russian Church in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 25, 2014, 5:03 pm
Large fire rages near Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood
Hundreds evacuated, 3 lightly injured, as forest near historic area goes up in flames
By Lazar Berman
Ultra-Orthodox men set light to a massive bonfire during celebrations of the holiday of Lag B'Omer in Jerusalem on Saturday, April 27, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 29, 2013, 6:20 am
Lag B’Omer takes its fiery toll
500 receive treatment in Meron celebrations; 600 fires break out in 24 hours nationwide; record-breaking air pollution monitored
By Ron Friedman
.A house gutted by fire in Kiryat Tivon Thursday (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
August 10, 2012, 5:31 pm
Firefighters tackle blaze near Ben Shemen, as wave of summer fires goes on
Officials fear series of fires may constitute new kind of terror tactic
By Joshua Davidovich and Michal Shmulovich
.A house gutted by fire in Kiryat Tivon Thursday (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
August 10, 2012, 8:05 am
Officials fear wave of fires may be new kind of terror attack
Blaze destroys homes in northern town; minister calls suspected arsons ‘spontaneous terror’
By Joshua Davidovich and Michal Shmulovich
August 7, 2012, 4:00 pm
Families fume during Carmel blaze meeting: ’44 people were killed, not 44 cockroaches’
Netanyahu blames disaster on lack of firefighting planes
By Stuart Winer
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