 Guys welcome back to my YouTube channel. I'm on the train today going between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv I do this about once a week for business to meet up with clients even though I have a car I personally prefer Taking the taking the train because there's no traffic jams No stress dealing with the roads and the fast train you can see behind me the background Hopefully a little bit here the beautiful scenery This is what's called now in Israel the fast train It goes between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. This train is actually destined towards Herzliya But it stops in the airport the transit time between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. It's only 30 minutes So it goes by in a flash you leave Jerusalem and you're gone in order to get this train running firstly came in Over the due date and over budget unfortunately, but it did finally get running. It's an electrified train and It replaces an older train that run around between Malta and Jerusalem and Yaffo that was recently decommissioned It was like this really some beautiful scenery to see but it was a much much slower train So this is now what people use so nowadays if you're visiting Israel There are three different ways to get between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv one you can take the train like this To you can take a bus there's two bus lines 405 and 480 both run very regularly and they're very cheap The transport in Israel is subsidized finally you can take a monitor route Which is a type of shared taxi facility. So you and other people Take the taxi together wait for it to go and it goes between the two cities at the money the monitor route will run over Shabbat whereas Public transport in Israel for the most part except in Haifa stops running So the buses and the trains you can't take over the Jewish Shabbat. So this is a train I'm currently one of the minority of passengers Wearing a mask. It's a personal choice. It's not no longer mandatory And there are USB ports here. So if you want to charge up your phone or your Laptop or whatever and it's a really quick journey time 30 minutes. So people are working business people You know working on their laptops other people And it's incredibly reliable 30 minutes now from Jerusalem you can check the timetable using an app called move it Which is a really really useful app here, or you can also check the Israel railways app Which is available also in English And it runs in both directions very very punctual and it's a really really very pleasant experience you need a rav cab or a ticket to tap in and tap out and That's pretty much all there is to it. So I do this about once a week for work and Come to after they really enjoy it. I usually listen to Podcasts or YouTube videos on the way over we're traversing through the middle of Israel somewhere between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Then you get to Haganah the first train station in Tel Aviv And then the train stops at Tel Aviv a Shalom university at Tel Aviv and then it gets there So now I can come into the airport So this is also a great way if you're looking to catch a flight To get to the airport again. There are both options from Jerusalem to the airport But this is also probably more comfortable and you can also take a taxi of course I would just say one thing that as someone we're now going through a tunnel as you can see As someone living in Jerusalem. I think the train has really really Changed life pretty quickly in a very good way. It's become a lot easier to do business with clients in Tel Aviv It's made the two cities closer not physically a course In the sense of transport and yeah, it's a really really good. It's one of the few things Infrastructure projects in Israel I can say without doubt has been a huge huge value add It's been a very long business day for me in Tel Aviv and I've returned to Jerusalem now after another 30-minute trip I'm coming all the way you go up up up from the platform level up to the Tremendous here in Jerusalem Yes, I have on is the fourth deepest train station by just show the camera this way you can see it's like going on the London Underground Except in the London Underground you go one escalator here. You go up like four or five in a row It's really really deep and this place actually doubles as a bomb shelter in case of a chemical warfare in Jerusalem They have these crazy crazy big steel doors and This is one of the deepest train stations in the world. I think only Beed by Moscow So it's a really long way down. It's a really long way up You have to think you have to factor that into your journey time when you're coming here