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Work begins on final tunnel for Jerusalem-Tel Aviv link
ISRAEL, 2015/04/04 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz attended the inauguration Monday morning of the construction of a massive railway tunnel, part of a planned Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed rail. The tunnel, the major underground passageway planned for the project and the last to be constructed, is to run from the area of the Sha’ar Hagai intersection on Route 1 to the Mevasseret Zion area, a distance — as the crow flies — of some 14-15 kilometers, or 8.5-9.3 miles. The ultimate goal of the project is to have high-speed rail from “Kiryat Shmona in the north to Eilat in the south” connecting the whole country, Netanyahu said at the ceremony, and added that “maybe, one day, these rails can connect to Jordan in the east, but that is still a far-off dream,” Channel 2 reported.
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