Israeli Minister Wants to Name a Jerusalem Train Station for Trump
- 6 years ago
Israeli Minister Wants to Name a Jerusalem Train Station for Trump
Extending it to the Old City would require digging another tunnel two miles long
and 170 feet below ground, Mr. Katz’s office said, along with building two new stations — one near the Dung Gate along the Old City’s southern perimeter, and one beneath the Cardo, the north-south Roman thoroughfare first paved by Emperor Hadrian in the second century, and later extended into what is now the Jewish Quarter by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian.
Kotel — that enable Israelis, Jews and tourists from around the world to connect using the fastest,
And Jamal Zahalka, another Arab lawmaker, who said
that extending the railroad into the Old City would violate international law by tampering with the status quota in East Jerusalem, said Mr. Katz’s idea of a tribute to Mr. Trump would be especially galling.
Now, a powerful Israeli cabinet minister is offering to express his gratitude by putting Mr. Trump’s name on a proposed new train station in the Old City, one
that would bring thousands of tourists directly into the Jewish Quarter just a few hundred yards from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
27, 2017
JERUSALEM — In the uneasy days after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some Israelis who cheered the move paid homage —
and taunted outraged Palestinians — by posting doctored photos of the Dome of the Rock with the president’s surname plastered across it, as if one of Islam’s holiest shrines had been reduced to the latest gold-plated Trump property.
Extending it to the Old City would require digging another tunnel two miles long
and 170 feet below ground, Mr. Katz’s office said, along with building two new stations — one near the Dung Gate along the Old City’s southern perimeter, and one beneath the Cardo, the north-south Roman thoroughfare first paved by Emperor Hadrian in the second century, and later extended into what is now the Jewish Quarter by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian.
Kotel — that enable Israelis, Jews and tourists from around the world to connect using the fastest,
And Jamal Zahalka, another Arab lawmaker, who said
that extending the railroad into the Old City would violate international law by tampering with the status quota in East Jerusalem, said Mr. Katz’s idea of a tribute to Mr. Trump would be especially galling.
Now, a powerful Israeli cabinet minister is offering to express his gratitude by putting Mr. Trump’s name on a proposed new train station in the Old City, one
that would bring thousands of tourists directly into the Jewish Quarter just a few hundred yards from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
27, 2017
JERUSALEM — In the uneasy days after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some Israelis who cheered the move paid homage —
and taunted outraged Palestinians — by posting doctored photos of the Dome of the Rock with the president’s surname plastered across it, as if one of Islam’s holiest shrines had been reduced to the latest gold-plated Trump property.