Yerushalayim Cable Car Moves Ahead, as Opponents Lose Supreme Court Case

Israeli and Palestinian opponents of an Israeli plan to run a cable car over Yerushalayim to the walls of the Old City lost their Supreme Court case against a project on Sunday, after they argued it would alter the city’s ancient landscape, Reuters reports. A unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel decided against intervening to reverse the Israeli government’s 2019 approval of the plan, saying proper planning procedures had been followed.

The proposed cable car would shuttle some 3,000 people per hour from the western part of Yerushalayim to an area near the Shaar Ha’ashpa entrance to the Old City in a four-minute ride.

Yerushalayim Mayor Moshe Lion commended the Supreme court decision: “We’ll continue to advance the cable car project, through which we’ll create a transportation solution for the heavy traffic and grant easy access to the Kotel and City of David.”

{Matzav.com Israel}