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PHOTOS: When you could ride a train from Gaza City to Tel Aviv
The rail line, which is almost unimaginable today considering the blockade and permit regime, ran for just under a year — until the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It’s been nearly 45 years since you could hop on a train in Gaza City and ride all the way to Tel Aviv, a situation…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
April 20, 2017
Station to station 3: We the living
In a land of rampant commercialism, abandonment isn’t the worst thing that could happen to an historical railway station. Elisha Baskin photographs — and insists on riding the kiddy train. (for the full, four part project, click here) Once upon a time, the good people of this land were able to travel by train from the…
By
Yuval Ben-Ami
October 22, 2015
Station to Station 1: The fenced failure
A journey to the Holy Land’s disused railway stations begins with a sonnet of concrete. Digital and disposable camera photography by Elisha Baskin. (for the full, four part project, click here) There is an old railway station in south Tel Aviv. It isn’t really so old by local standards, being 80 years younger than the…
By
Yuval Ben-Ami
October 8, 2015
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