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Illustrative: A test drive of the light rail in Tel Aviv on August 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
‘We waited a long time for this’: Tel Aviv light rail sets off after years of delays
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People come from across country to ride on inaugural trains, with 70-year-old Koti Elazar recognized as first passenger; ‘This rail will take Bat Yam forward,’ mayor vows
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara Netanyahu, and other dignitaries at the opening ceremony of the Tel Aviv light rail, in Petah Tikva, August 17, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Amid protesters’ boos and road closures, Netanyahu launches Tel Aviv light rail
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Inside StoryTel Aviv light rail launches amid multiple challenges, criticism over Shabbat closure
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Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds up a Rav-Kav card given to her by a member of the press, before entering Allenby Station, August 16, 2023. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
Likud transportation minister booed during first ride on new Tel Aviv light rail
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Illustrative: A test drive of the light rail in Tel Aviv on August 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
‘We waited a long time for this’: Tel Aviv light rail sets off after years of delays
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Iranian drone Shahed-129 is displayed at a rally in Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
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US President Joe Biden, center, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, talk to reporters before a lunch with Senate Democrats on his upcoming budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Illustrative: A police officer keeps watch from an observation tower at the Gilboa Prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)
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File: Israeli military reservists protest against the plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, on a freeway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
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MK Ofir Katz, chairman of the Knesset House Committee, leads a hearing, March 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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Police chief Kobi Shabtai (left) during a police operation in Lod on August 17, 2023. (Israel Police)
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Activists protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the ultraconservative Har Hamor Yeshiva in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, July 5, 2023. The sign, featuring leading members of the government, states 'You are the messianics of the destruction.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Histadrut chief Arnon Bar-David declares a general strike in protest of the judicial overhaul, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
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Olim on the 64th Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight pose with organization’s Co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart; Minister of Aliyah and Integration, Ofir Sofer; and Director-General of the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Avichai Kahana. Credit: Shahar Azran and Yonit Schiller
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy waves after taking part in a Fair-Side Chat with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds at the Iowa State Fair Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP/Jeff Roberson)
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An image of Israel and the US's test launch of the Arrow 3 missile defense system on July 28, 2019. (Defense Ministry)
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Mustafa al-Kastouni, reported to be a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, who was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, August 17, 2023. (Social media)
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Ethiopian Jews scuffle with police during a protest urging the government to bring their family members to Israel due to fighting in Ethiopia, near the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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