{"id":616410,"date":"2026-09-15T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616410\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:22:10","slug":"israel-railways-trains-to-run-on-special-schedule-ahead-of-yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616410\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Railways: Trains to run on special schedule ahead of Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trains will operate on a special schedule during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/judaism\/article-908521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yom Kippur<\/a>, Israel Railways announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On the eve of the holiday, Sunday, September 20, trains will run on an increased schedule until 13:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-907885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Railways<\/a> will run two trains between Haifa and Tel Aviv per hour instead of the usual one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">After 13:00 p.m. on Monday, all train traffic will cease until Tuesday, September 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israel Railways specified that certain trains overnight between Monday and Tuesday would run as normal.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating drivers would reduce the extent of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-907559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Shabbat violations<\/a> involved in running the network, although security and operations personnel would still be required on Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">An NTA official stressed, however, that weekend service is only a technical possibility and that the decision will ultimately be made by the political leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Udi Etzion contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trains will operate on a special schedule during Yom Kippur, Israel Railways announced on Monday. On the eve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,30710,43,9956,69464,41717],"class_list":["post-616410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-railways","tag-news","tag-public-transportation","tag-train","tag-yom-kippur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}