Jerusalem light rail

Jerusalem's Green Line begins service Friday, expanding light rail network

The new line is approximately 7 kilometers, or 4.3 miles, long and includes 13 stations, 12 of them new. During peak hours, trains are expected to run every eight minutes.

Jerusalem's new light rail line
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters set fire to construction materials during a protest against construction work on the Jerusalem Light Rail in the Bar-Ilan area of Jerusalem, June 8, 2026.

Haredi protesters break into Jerusalem Light Rail construction sites, assault workers

A rendering of the planned light rail connection between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem.

Gush Etzion, Efrat, to be easily accessible to Jerusalem by light rail under new proposal

Israel Police responding to haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest near Shabbat Square in Jerusaelm, June 19, 2026.

Ultra-Orthodox protesters block traffic, set fire on road near Jerusalem's Shabbat Square


Hundreds of haredim protest arrest of yeshiva student in Jerusalem

IDF's Ground Forces Commander Maj.-Gen. Yoel Strick who happened to pass by the area was reportedly attacked by protesters before being rescued by police.

Police are seen forcibly dispersing haredi protesters gathered on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on December 22, 2020.

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters flood Jerusalem, 25 detained

Bar Ilan junction was blocked for traffic.

Protest at Bar Ilan junction in Jerusalem

Grapevine: End of an era

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Jerusalem's light rail

Outrage over Swiss Green party candidate’s links to BDS

Heidi Mück sought to end work with French company because it helped build Jerusalem light rail.

Jerusalem's light rail

Anger entrenches opposing sides amid light rail construction

“Look at Emek Refaim today. It’s declining.”

The Rakevet Ba'emek Association's Yossi Saidov, Idit Rubin and Itamar Shahar on Emek Refaim Street.

This week in Jerusalem, October 23, 2020: Not in my neighborhood

Peggy Cidor's round-up of city affairs.

The light rail's blue line will run down Emek Refaim Street.

Jerusalem's planned cable car to the Old City is becoming a burden

A public statement against the plan was published by 70 architects, archaeologists, historians and intellectuals – among them, four Israel Prize recipients.


Jerusalem to speed up infrastructure work amid coronavirus lockdown

Work will be done on the light rail, Begin Highway and a number of other roads and projects around the city

Planned extension of the Jerusalem Light Rail

Standing together - a roundup of Jerusalem affairs

As of next June, passengers using public buses or the train won’t have to load their Rav-Kav, but will be able to use a new application directly from their smart phones.

GOLDA MEIR Boulevard is getting a carpool lane

19-year-old woman killed after being hit by light rail in Jerusalem

"At around 12:20 a.m. a woman fell between two wagons as the train was moving. MDA paramedics that arrived at the scene could only call her time of death."

Fire and Rescue workers next to the light rail in Jerusalem where a 19-year-old woman was killed