Railway to Karmiel

It opened in 2017 and consists of a double track standard gauge railway stretching for 23 km from near Acre (Akko) to Karmiel.

From Karmiel, a plan exists to eventually extend the railway to Korazim (near Safed) and from there to Kiryat Shmona at the very northern tip of Israel.

[1] The railway was first proposed in the early 2000s but the plans were put on hold in the Sharon government due to financial reasons.

[5] In 2009, a number of northern municipalities turned to the Negev and Galilee Development minister Silvan Shalom in an effort to promote the plan for the railway.

[2] On February 24, 2010, the Israeli government voted to appropriate funds to construct the line as part of a larger national infrastructure spending package.

[4] The following sections are included in the infrastructure tenders: Construction of the line was completed in March 2017 and service began in September of that year.