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Israel Launches High Speed Rail Service Between Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva
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Joel Leyden Jerusalem, Israel --- July 15, 2012 ... Part of the following was communicated by the Israel Government Press Office to the Israel News Agency. At the weekly Cabinet meeting today in Jerusalem, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks: "I spoke a short while ago with Be'er Sheva Mayor Rubik Danilovich. He was very, very excited because today we are dedicating Israel's newest high-speed rail link, and now it will be only 55 minutes from Be'er Sheva to Tel Aviv and from Tel Aviv to Be'er Sheva. This is down from 76 minutes and we will yet lower it to 45 minutes. This is a revolution that we have always dreamed about. Israel is carrying it out. It seems to me that this idea started when Silvan Shalom was Israel Finance Minister and I am proud of the fact that we in this Government, with our energetic Transportation Minister, are realizing this, with support from the Israel Finance Ministry. This is huge. At the same time, today we will also dedicate the high-speed line from Kiryat Gat to Tel Aviv – 32 minutes. I remind you that this takes much longer than most US and European cities, from the large cities – to go from the city center to the outskirts, than it takes today to go from central Tel Aviv to Kiryat Gat, and even to Be'er Sheva. This is a great cultural, social and national revolution that has to do with population dispersal, creating new possibilities and growth. I think that Israel can definitely be proud here that we are finally joining the periphery, the Negev to the center, and the center to the periphery, and this has tremendous consequences, and therefore we are pleased to see the fruit of Government policy." The Israel train system offers excellent transportation coverage between the country’s major cities including: Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Kfar Sava and Beer-Sheva. Its northmost point is scenic, coastal Nahariya adjacent to Rosh Hanikra on the Lebanon border and southern most point is the modern, desert city of Be'er Sheva. Recently a line to Jerusalem was reopened which offers spectacular views along the the way. The ride is usually very comfortable with food and drink served on board.
For information
and to book tickets on the Israel Railway service, call 03-6117000
and *5770 from any cell phone. The Israel Cabinet also discussed the illegal migrants attempting to reach Israel, not on humanitarian grounds but seeking work. Pursuant to the report that 12 infiltrators were detained in Israel over the weekend, 64 last week and 183 since the beginning of July, the Prime Minister stated: "To compare, 1,000 infiltrators crossed last month. In May, there were 2,000. I remind you that all those who reached the border did not reach the border, sit there and wait for a ride to Tel Aviv or other localities in the State of Israel. This is not what happened. They came and were taken, in a humanitarian manner, immediately to detention, and we have increased the number of holding places, we increased them thanks to vigorous Israeli Government action. At the same time, this week we will complete the 200th kilometer of the security, border fence. It will take us another few months to complete the 20 additional kilometers in the mountainous areas around Eilat and in the central part of the border with Egypt, and Israel is applying, I would say, great conscious pressure in Africa to explain to infiltrators that the rules of the game have changed. Additionally, on my instructions, at the more or less weekly meeting that I hold on the issue of infiltrators – we are going to apply very great pressure on employers, first of all, via the tax authorities, so that they know that there are no free lunches here, and we have also advanced draft legislation to impose much sharper punishments on the employers. The infiltrators come here because they want work. As soon as they know that there is no work here, they will not come, and we still have much to do, and we are working in many areas, some of which I have not mentioned, but there is no doubt that regarding everything we have to do – we are changing the trend, and Israel is headed in the right direction in regard to dealing with a fundamental problem that threatens its Jewish and democratic character."
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