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


Police shoot suspicious woman in Jerusalem

She was transferred to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in moderate condition.

Scene after the shooting of a female suspect in Jerusalem, May 27, 2018

Hundreds join in alternative 'peaceful and tolerant' Jerusalem Day March

“This [march] is the real way to celebrate this city. This city is a city of love, a city of community, a city that is respectful."

The alternative Jerusalem Day March takes place in the city's south, May 13, 2018

Blues for a blue line

Residents of the German Colony are worried about the Emek Refaim segment of the light rail.

Emek Refaim Street today, where it intersects with Rachel Imenu Street

Bringing the synagogue to the stage

The A’irra Shachar concerts feature four styles of bakashot.

Maimon Cohen

Israelis celebrate 'No Pants Day' on Jerusalem's light rail

Israelis braced the chilly Jerusalem winter to strip down and ride the light rail.

Israelis take part in the annual No Pants Day on Jerusalem's Light Rail, January 2018

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

Though the light rail’s Blue Line has been approved, the fate of its 1.1-kilometer segment on Emek Refaim Street (pictured) is undecided

The saga of the Blue Line

The Blue Line’s Emek Refaim path was opposed by local residents and businesses owners.

An alternate proposal for a tunnel would save both Mesila Park and Emek Refaim Street from the damage created by the work to build the Blue Line.

Grapevine: Villa Brown arrives

Pop music was blaring loudly, even though the street is on the edge of an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.

Meir Adoni

A roller-coaster train

If approved, the tunnel would run under Harakevet Street along Mesila Park from the Liberty Bell Garden to the Oranim junction, leaving Emek Refaim untouched and preserving Mesila Park.

The Jerusalem light rail

Triple benefit

Why I support the light rail on Emek Refaim.

The Jerusalem light rail