Israel Railways introduced on Tuesday that schedules could be additional interrupted within the coming days, shuttering all prepare visitors by Tel Aviv for seven days.
The corporate stated it determined to hold out routine upkeep work alongside ongoing repairs which have already shut down a lot of the route in central Israel, after a freight prepare damaged a number of hundred meters of electrical cable infrastructure close to the Ganot Junction, south of Tel Aviv, final Thursday.
The repairs, that are anticipated to take per week and a half to finish, have already brought about important disruptions to coach visitors
Passengers touring between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have been required to change at Ben Gurion Airport, because the electric-powered trains that function alongside the route can’t proceed into Tel Aviv. Diesel-powered trains have been working instead.
As well as, trains working alongside the Ashkelon-Binyamina and Beit Shemesh-Netanya strains have been terminating at Lod till the infrastructure is repaired, and repair has been canceled altogether between Ganei Aviv and Kfar Chabad.
On Tuesday, Israel Railways stated extra prepare stations in Tel Aviv could be shuttered, and there could be no service by the busy metropolis from Wednesday, August 20, till August 26.
It stated that it determined to “reap the benefits of the chance” posed by the necessity to restore the broken electrical cables and could be finishing up security and upkeep work on the tracks.
The upkeep work had initially been scheduled for September, however the rail community stated in an announcement that it had determined to carry it ahead in order to not trigger “twice as a lot hurt to the touring public.”
Passengers disembark on the Yitzhak Navon prepare station in Jerusalem on August 17, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Because of this, the Tel Aviv HaShalom railway station shall be shuttered for the subsequent seven days, becoming a member of Tel Aviv HaHagana, which has been closed since Friday morning.
Which means that trains from Jerusalem and Modi’in will solely have the ability to journey so far as Ben Gurion Airport, whereas trains from northern Israel won’t be able to proceed previous Tel Aviv Savidor Middle, and trains from the south will terminate on the Lod railway station.
Acknowledging the affect of those adjustments on passengers, Israel Railways stated that “to make issues simpler for the general public,” it could be working a short lived rail alternative bus service between Tel Aviv HaHagana, Tel Aviv HaShalom, and Tel Aviv Savidor Middle, freed from cost, with buses working each 5 minutes.
Regardless of the heavy disruptions — which on Sunday have been compounded by a nationwide strike that noticed giant protests shut down a few of Israel’s busiest roads — Transportation Minister Miri Regev insisted on Monday that there was “no transportation chaos,” and that the state of affairs was merely “disagreeable.”
Her feedback contradicted the opinions of Israel Railways officers, who advised media retailers final week that the harm attributable to the freight prepare was “a mega-event like no different we’ve got skilled.”
