The NEW FAST railway line from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv | Israel Railways 

Wonderful. I am an Arab from southern Iraq. I noticed that the Arabic language is added to the Hebrew language. This is a good thing.This makes the instructions easy for us 🇮🇶🤝🇮🇱

It totally great to see Israel in a way that most of the world doesn’t see because of the conflicts. Your train is so up today compared with trains here in Australia. Thanks for the video.👍👍👍👍👍

I think they've started about 20 years ago plan and invest seriously in their railway network. It's fascinating to see what Israel has achieved meanwhile. Thank you very much for this video.

Increíble cómo un país tan joven, fundado sobre tierras áridas pudo hacer "otro país" moderni, adelantado y organizado donde todo funciona

Nice video. Worth noting two things. First, Yitzhak Navon station is ine of the deepest in the world at about 80 meters. The station is across froom the Jerusalem Egged Bus station and the light rail that cuts through JLM on a north east to south west axis. The station is also next to Binyanei HaUmah, the Nation's Buildings, a massive conference complex used for work conferences, book fairs, large graduation ceremonies etc. As such Yitzhak Navon station is a great hub. The other point is that two more stations will be built south of Yitzhak Navon station in the coming years. Enjoy!

I visited Israel in 2019 and also drove on this highspeed line. Back than, they ran red painted double-decker waggons. As I am from Germany, I noticed that they are almost like the German double-decker cars that run in regional service :D The most impressive thing was that they even used the same pictograms in the trains as they do in Germany. The doors had a pictogram called „Automatik“ which is likely understandable (means automatic) but however, is written wrong in a English-speaking country :D

Used the line last February and enjoyed the quick ride and the view on the nice landscape. And the impressive train starion with it's long escalators. A bit crowded, but wonderful alternative to the Eged bus lines.

As somebody that travels this line often, thanks for putting out an awesome video.

Excellent video, thanks Simon. I will be visiting Tel Aviv with my wife in July and we plan to get to Jerusalem, too. There are a few options we are considering, but you just gave me another idea. The price is awesome and the comfort is an A+ as far as I can tell. Very impressed with everything you showed in this video, the cleanliness of both the train and the stations deserves to be commended. Thanks again and an A+ to you, too.😊

The Siemens Desiro HC are also used on the highly frequented Ruhr valley regional express services in Germany connecting Dortmund, Bochum, Essen, Duisburg and Düsseldorf/Cologne every 20 minutes or so. They're carrying millions of riders every single day on that route and they are very reliable workhorses on these central backbone lines. They also have this very recognizable engine sound and run extremely smoothly, requiring very little time for stops, which is ideal on a line with so many passengers and possible sources of delay, the tracks they're running on are among the busiest in the country, being used around 150 percent. While the Desiro HC have an enormous passenger capacity, they are also very comfortable, I prefer them to any highspeed train built by Siemens for Deutsche Bahn.

Thank you for this. For some reason I never heard of trains in Jerusalem. Looks like a real smooth ride.

Wow this looks very sleek

Very nice video man! Fun fact you forgot to mention is that the brigde at 7:25 is The longest in isreal, which is soon to be bypassed by a new rail constructed along route 431.

Siemens Desiro HC .. A Fast Train Service .. It will be fantastic to have a nice journey from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv & from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem .. Respect the Holy City, Jerusalem .. !! Though, I'm NOT ALLOWED in your country due to my Community Guidelines .. but in either way, Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 .. !!

שלום, שמנו אריאל ושירה האחותי עוד מחרתיים ניסע ברכבת לירושלים ויהיה לנו כיף בעיר העתיקה

It was my weekly commute! Thanks for sharing. The train schedule screen outside of Yitzak Navon wasn’t there when I was there. Seems very convenient with it.

Excellent review i hope you enjoyed the trip

Congratulations from Canada where we still have zero high speed miles in 2023 :(

That is totally new for me! When I visited the country in 2013 and 2015 there was a train that everyone told us to NOT use because it was very slow and always late. So it seems they managed to fix the situation. Back then you had to take the sherut mini bus taxi, to be shared by 10 people. It had its own charm too, to be honest, very Middle East vibe, I really enjoyed. I remember taking it outside of a station in a Southern district of Tel Aviv.

Awesome! Looking forward to travelling on this in a few days 🤠

Very interresting video. I am so glad I discovered your channel. So many great videos to explore. I like your style of the video. Your narration, and what you choose to show.

What nice railroads. Now I want to try them.

Congratulations for the fantastic footage 👏 Great job 👍

Very impressive.

To the Israeli engineers I just want to say. Todah arba! HEB for thank you very much!

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Awesome video ! I like this HOLY TRAIN......😃

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I have been in the road train in Jerusalem it's great. Thanks.

Amazing journey and station (in Jerusalem).

Tack Simon!

This is a very nice train ride.

I really liked their train and general system of travel.

Great video, It's nice to see the train from foreign eyes

thank you for showing

Great ride 👌

ABSOLUTELY, FANTASTIC! ISRAEL'S VERSION OF FLORIDA'S BRIGHTLINE!

Very very nice gorgeous station cool

An interesting fact to add to this discussion is that even though in Israel road travel and in-city light rail (such as was seen in this video at the beginning, outside the Jerusalem Navon station) is on the right, the intercity train system of Israel Railways is as if in Great Britain, traveling on the left. I have no idea why this is. One should be aware of this in choosing which platform to go to.

I found your channel thanks to my brother. Good job, really. Keep it up!

Great video, I really love the train system in Israel and I prefer to take the train whenever I can though sadly they aren't enough lines here. most of the north of Israel where I live isn't connected and taking the bus or a car to most destination is much faster. though thankfully the railway is expending all the time and my city would be connected via rail to Hiafa which will make train journeys to other parts of Israel much more convenient. By the way they are also planning to build high speed rail from Haifa to Tel Aviv.

2:35 - The market was there already, Prior to this line, the only methods to get to the center of Jerusalem was either by a bus or a car, which were slow due to traffic both in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. There is another train line to Jerusalem but its nowhere as fast as this one nor does it go to the center of the city. People were waiting for this line to open for years. Considering that Tel Aviv metro area population is over 3.5 million, and Jerusalems is 1.2 millions and the two together are the 2 busiest cities in Israel, no wonder the new train station in Jerusalem became one of the most busiest in the network in such short amount of time.

Nice train and service

I love riding the Trains,on some day,i should travel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.

Absolutely beautiful 😊

Awesome video!

great video

I've only been by bus between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, in 2015 and 2016 but this looks good. Looking forward to visiting Denmark again too, btw...

Great job

I took this train a few weeks ago. It's FAST and spacious

I used to travel the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway twice. It's the best way to travel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a short time. The older Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway was more panoramic but it took more time to travel and the station in Jerusalem (Malcha) is far from the city centre.

Fantastic news Shalom

I ride this train to work in the opposite direction twice a week (I live by Holon-Wolfson station and make a connection in TA). The train ride is very smooth pleasant, too bad the transportation in Jerusalem isn't adequate to my needs. Ended up looking for another job because of that.

Very very nice video

Excellent. Post more pics of your country please. Show the world what a prosperous country u hav. Shalom from broken SA.

nice video simon thanks 4upl

Very impressive - and modern

Yes we have a great train system in Israel

This would have been AMAZING to have back in 1995 (last time I was in Israel); when the main mode was either slower train or bus between Jerusalem & Tel Aviv. It's DEFINITELY better and faster in between the two cities now.

Awesome👍

GREAT RAILWAYS no word to speak.

Beautiful electric trains [ EMU,s ] and electric locomotives in Israel good job Israel Railways !!

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Great trains in Israel, love it from Morocco 🇲🇦❤️🇮🇱

Very good!

First video of yours that I'm watching, was very pleased and surprised for the high quality review and editing, and also from your research, way to go! Subbed and liked :) How would you rate Israel by public transport standards?

Thank you for such an informative and pleasant introduction to Israelian Railways. I hope for the company that at such a low price ( compared to long distance trains in Germany) enough people will use it that they don't haveto close it or other.

Impressive achievement from Israel. Although the train isn't high speed, the affordable ticket price makes it good for mass transit.

❤❤❤very nice !!!

Hace 75 años ese trayecto era campo de batalla. Cada pueblo tiene lo que 😊se merece según su esfuerzo y perseverancia.

I would more closely compare the security checks to those of a mall than an airport Also thanks for covering my country!

love it 😊

A game changer!

I believe they are going to change the Jerusalem trains back to the Bombardier Double Deck ones as the Desiro HC ones can't handle the amount of passengers on this route during peak hours. Catching an IC3 is pretty rare nowadays.

When I was there last year, they were still building it. Hopefully I can use it when I go this year.

הכל מתחיל ונגמר בלהיות שם אחד בשביל השני!

Out of all the train lines in the world, I most want to see this one

Thanx man! I have yet to try this brand-new, and long overdue, TA-J'lem line, but what I experienced taking the train from TA-Central to Haifa Bat-Galim and back last Wednesday was almost pleasant even though the train was full of mainly university students with their ubiquitous laptop computers. I have lived in Israel since 1976, and the horrendous public transportation system has improved very little since then, while the population has more than doubled. The only two areas of obvious progress have been the (almost) cash-free payment method, Rav-Kav a.s.o., that has sped up boarding time, and the railroads which barely existed back then. The trains, however, and for some reason, still move at the pace of a Bernese snail afflicted with rheumatism! Other than that, city buses have changed very little with the exception of some carriages being actually electrical and having realistic air-conditioning. City transit, with the exception of Jerusalem where one can go places relatively efficiently with the light rail tramway, is still the bladder-bursting ordeal it always was, with VERY long waits at unsheltered sidewalk stations and obligatory participation in every conceivable traffic jam, and no real possibility to estimate time of arrival nor any chance to get where you need to go before your own deodorant's expiry date!

NICE COUNTRY

My favourite Train

Thanks for a great video! Just a tiny tip: it takes 15 to 20 seconds on an elevator instead of ~7 minutes using escalators. That's why most of the folks use them 😉

Great video! Enjoyed it and very impressive system and noted how clean stations & train was. Hopefully you will do similar videos on the new Tel Aviv light rail/metro system nearly completed by Chinese firms I recall. Imagine one day in the not too distant future taking fast luxury trains from Israel to Beirut , Cairo(as they did in the 20/1930's, Amman ; Riyadh or even UAE ! Why not ? Its feeable and very beneficial for exports to EU from Israeli ports

2:57 one of our regional train lines RE1/RE4 RRX uses siemens desiro HC

ماشاء الله 👌💯

When I fly to Israel from airport will ride in it not have to mess with cabs or city buses

In latest 5-10 years israelian economy progressed from midle-rich economy to hiper-rich. Israel is one of the most developed countries in the world at the moment, in top 15, even top 10 maybe.

The one and only time I took a train from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was 25-30 years ago on the even then very old rail line, probably dating to the Ottoman years and long since superseded by this one, on ancient pre-WWII trains you'd probably only find in a museum these days. It was very slow but also very scenic, its one advantage over this line, which I've not yet taken but hope to later this year when I visit. I wonder what they did with the old line, perhaps turned it into a rails-to-trails bike, run and walking trail?

ישראל בונה טובה. תהילה לישראל!

Wow! Very nice videos. Thanks for sharing this! What did you say about this? Can I used app on my iPhone? So can I download it?

Israel love you from India 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇱

I've never seen another country do double decker trains like we do here in Sydney Australia. I disagree with the other comment below that the trains in Australia are poor, perhaps if you are in Brisbane or Melbourne, yes, but in Sydney the trains are absolutely state of the art. This is legitimately. The first time I've seen another country have a double decker train like this that meets in the middle on one level for the door exit. I can't wait to go back to Jerusalem and get on the train to and from Tel Aviv. V.v. xx 🇮🇱💪🏽🇮🇱 💙💙

So, these trains are basically exactly the same as the RRX sets in Germany, right? The seats look only different in their color and the non-leather headrest. (Otherwise they have a different electric system and Israel has the longer version as well)

I never knew about them till now. Can you ride them to haifa Israel too sir? How much will it cost to go to Haifa from tell aviv?

Well done Israeli Railway.

Is there a similar train one can pick up that continues to haifa? Also, do you know if the monthly israeli rail pass of 220 Shekels providws unlimited rail Travel? Thank you !

Very impressive to see Israel highly advanced in today's technology. Wish them good luck for further improvement! Similar videos create a significant enthusiasm in the minds of tourists from all over the World - to go and spend the holidays in Israel. If I have the chance I never hesitate.

Love upper deck best that where I would sit

A Rav-kav-card seems to be like the danish "Rejsekort"

Israel has not planned for the huge population increase of 2 million in a decade and 2 million this decade. this means we by now should have had bullet trains like shinkansens on elevated platforms running 300 km/h for 20 minutes between Haifa and Tel Aviv, A second international airport in Haifa and the eastern rail system already in place by 2020. We are now experiencing density and waiting times in all services which will hurt growth in the coming years. Nightmare govs that seem to plan "ahead" only as time crunch and disaster looms and then they suddenly do things much more costly and time consuming.