Tel Aviv light rail will not run on Shabbat – Tel Aviv residents were hopeful that the light rail would operate on Shabbat in accordance with promises made by then-transportation Minister Merav Michaeli. | The Jerusalem Post

The long-delayed Tel Aviv light rail will not operate on Shabbat and holidays, it was announced on Tuesday. The decision is a blow to activists who had been pushing for the opening, both of the light rail and of buses.
Tel Aviv’s much anticipated partly-above ground and partly-below ground train broke ground in 2011, with the most recent promise to be opened by the end of 2022. The project continued to see multiple delays – partly due to a malfunction in the brake system – which has led to Tel Avivians watching empty trains go by for months now.