By Elahn Zetlin

August 8, 2013, Updated July 13, 2015

Wait, is this San Francisco? Amsterdam? No, it’s unmistakably Jerusalem – with a glossy new Light Rail system linking thoroughfares from its northern border to Mount Herzl in the south.

Take a ride on the Jerusalem Light Rail with ISRAEL21c.

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