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At the beginning of the British Mandate, the time zone of the mandate area (present-day Israel and Jordan), was set to Cairo's time zone, which is two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. The unique "Israel Standard Time" came into effect with the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, which gave Israel the authority in determining its own ...
The rail journey from Ben Gurion Airport to Tel Aviv Savidor Central station takes 15–20 minutes (with intermediate stops at Tel Aviv's HaShalom and HaHagana stations). ). Most Northbound trains from the airport then continue past Tel Aviv and terminate in Nahariya in northern Israel, making stops in Binyamina, Haifa, the Krayot and Acre (with a total journey time of about 2 hours from the ...
The time change first occurred from June 1 to September 30, 1940, and then from 17 November 1940 through all of 1941 until 31 October 1942. [2] Summer Time in 1943 and 1944 was from April 1 to October 31, and in 1945 and 1946 it was from April 16 to October 31. [ 3 ]
Construction began in 2001 and was divided into multiple sections: Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion Airport (western part of Railway 27) – the line begins approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv's HaHagana Railway Station, where it branches off from the Tel Aviv – Lod railway through a tunnel under the northern set of lanes of Highway 1 and the northern set of tracks of the Tel Aviv ...
Beit Shemesh Station was built under Ottoman rule with the construction of the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, the first rail line in Palestine. [2] The station has been known under four different names: its original name, Dayr Aban, which was changed during the late Mandatory period to Artuf/Hartuv, [3] the names of a nearby Arab village and a Jewish moshava, both depopulated in the 1948 Arab ...
A major LRT network is under construction in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, with three lines of the Tel Aviv Light Rail for a total of 90 km (56 mi) and 139 stations. The Red Line (opened in 2023) connects Petah Tikva in the northeast to Bat Yam in the southwest, with a main 12 km (7.5 mi) underground section (covering Bnei Brak , Ramat Gan ...
Since the 2000 decade, the section between Tel Aviv Central and Tel Aviv University stations consists of four tracks, while works to extend the four track section from University to Herzliya were completed in 2020. Because the line is Israel's most congested, there are long-term plans to extend the four-track section from Hertzliya to Haifa in ...
Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...