Tel Aviv Metro

The ministry's rationale was that the light rail plan would not be sufficient to answer Tel Aviv's transportation needs as early as the 2020s, when the first lines would be completed.

[5] In July 2018, McKinsey submitted a report on the financial aspects of the project to the Israeli government.

[6] The architects chosen to head the planning teams are Dana Kehat from Mansfeld–Kehat for M1, Eliezer Armon for M2 and Edna Lerman for M3.

[8] In December 2022, trial excavation to assess the ground conditions to be encountered during the construction of the metro began.

[9] On 29 August 2023, Israeli Transport Minister Miri Regev signed an order allowing land acquisition to build the metro system to begin.