Resumption of regular rail service between Tel Aviv and Haifa on Aug. 21 and between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Aug. 7 was announced today by Nachum Lifschitz, director-general of the Land Transportation Department of the Israeli Ministry of Communications. For the time being traffic will be restricted to freight.
Passenger trains will begin running regularly about the middle of September, with four trains daily routed to cross Rosh Ha Ain along a rail line constructed by the former British Mandatory Government.
Renewal of regular rail service will mean the continued employment of about 750 Jews and the probably hiring of some 1,400 additional workers, Mr. Lifschits said. Israeli track mileage now totals 187 miles as against about 670 miles under the Mandatory Government. Under the British, however, only six percent of some 5,000 workers were Jewish.
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