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Comptroller: Jerusalem-Tel Aviv express train won’t be ready by April 2018
The Times of Israel   26 October 2017   Israel   Jerousalem  
Construction of the Jerusalem Railway Station for the future high-speed railway line to Tel Aviv on May 15, 2012. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)
<p>A State Comptroller&rsquo;s report released Wednesday found the high-speed rail line between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, slated to begin operating in April 2018, will not be ready for another year to two years.</p> <p>The highly critical report found the conversion ...
Filed under: Construction News
Netanyahu to fast-track natural gas plan after minister resigns
in-cyprus   01 November 2015   Israel   Mediterranean coast  
Netanyahu to fast-track natural gas plan after minister resigns / in-cyprus
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take control of the Economy Ministry to fast-track a plan to develop huge offshore natural gas deposits after a minister who had been holding up the plan stepped down.</p> <p>Economy Minister Aryeh Deri, who ...
Filed under: Energy resources
Workers Building Sewer Line Discover Ancient Jerusalem Aqueduct
The Algemeiner   21 May 2015   Israel   Jerousalem  
The pictured ancient aqueduct was discovered in Jerusalem. Photo: Assaf Peretz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
<p>JNS.org &ndash; Workers have discovered a part of Jerusalem&rsquo;s Lower Aqueduct, which had supplied water to the city more than 2,000 years ago.</p>
Thousands of Dead Sea Sinkholes Open Up, Worrying Officials
The Weather Channel   18 March 2015   Israel   Dead Sea  
n aerial view photo shows sinkholes created by the drying of the Dead Sea, near Kibbutz Ein Gedi, on November 10, 2011. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
<p>The Dead Sea has been losing water for years, but it's a side effect of that evaporation that has experts especially worried.<br>Over the last three decades, more than 3,000 sinkholes have opened up in dry parts of the ever-shrinking Dead Sea, according ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards