Now there are trains running. But most people use car for their commuting (and the companies lease cars as a part of the benefit) as far as I know. And the traffice jam is horrendous – in the worst case, almost the same as running in the middle of Shibuya or Shinjuku, or downtown Bangkok. It’s a classical chicken and egg example – you need a fairly broad train network to convice people, but you need demand from them to build the network..

The highway that leads us to Jerusalem.

The layered land.

The primitive fence that separates Israeli territories and Palestinian terrirories. Pretty soon these fences will be replaced by hard walls.

Jerusalem ahead.

An example of the “walls” that separates the territories.

Bedouin camp.