Israel Railways announced on Tuesday that  schedules would be further interrupted in the coming days, shuttering all train traffic through Tel Aviv for seven days.

The company said it decided to carry out routine maintenance work alongside ongoing repairs that have already shut down much of the route in central Israel, after a freight train damaged several hundred meters of electric cable infrastructure near the Ganot Junction, south of Tel Aviv, last Thursday.

The repairs, which are expected to take a week and a half to complete, have already caused significant disruptions to train traffic

Passengers traveling between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have been required to switch at Ben Gurion Airport, as the electric-powered trains that operate along the route cannot continue into Tel Aviv. Diesel-powered trains have been operating as an alternative.

In addition, trains running along the Ashkelon-Binyamina and Beit Shemesh-Netanya lines have been........

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