Jerusalem cable car plan
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Israeli authorities have approved
a controversial plan for a cable car network between Jerusalem’s Old City and the Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest sites
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LEBANON
WEST BANK
Jerusalem
ISRAEL
EGYPT
JORDAN 
SYRIA
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Length: 1.4km
Capacity: 73 passengers per car – up to 3,000 people every hour
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Armistice Line drawn at end of 1948-49 war

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Temple Mount Al-Haram al-Sharif

OLD CITY

Dome of the Rock

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Western Wall

Footpath

Dung Gate

Mount Zion

First Station

Silwan
Abu Tor

EAST JERUSALEM
WEST JERUSALEM

Valley of Hinnom

“No Man’s Land”

200m 650ft
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Government says project will reduce traffic congestion but opponents fear it will mar historic landscape and bolster Jewish presence in Arab neighbourhood of Silwan
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Sources: Haaretz, BBC, AP
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