"The Kotel is the holiest place to the Jewish people,” said the transportation minister, Yisrael Katz, using the Hebrew name for Jerusalem’s Western Wall. The Western Wall is estimated to be about 5,000 years old. Katz’s plan calls for construction of a tunnel 170 feet underground connecting Tel Aviv to Jerusalem’s “Donald John Trump Western Wall" station — near the Cardo — Jerusalem’s Roman-era main strip, in the Old City's Jewish Quarter. A VIP wagon would shuttle celebrities directly from the tarmac at Ben Gurion to the Western Wall station. On Twitter, Haaretz senior columnist and U.S. affairs analyst Chemi Shalev asked, “Why stop with train station, ingrates?

Source: Los Angeles Times December 28, 2017 00:11 UTC