Israeli Minister Wants to Name a Jerusalem Train Station for Trump<br />Extending it to the Old City would require digging another tunnel two miles long<br />and 170 feet below ground, Mr. Katz’s office said, along with building two new stations — one near the Dung Gate along the Old City’s southern perimeter, and one beneath the Cardo, the north-south Roman thoroughfare first paved by Emperor Hadrian in the second century, and later extended into what is now the Jewish Quarter by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian.<br />Kotel — that enable Israelis, Jews and tourists from around the world to connect using the fastest,<br />And Jamal Zahalka, another Arab lawmaker, who said<br />that extending the railroad into the Old City would violate international law by tampering with the status quota in East Jerusalem, said Mr. Katz’s idea of a tribute to Mr. Trump would be especially galling.<br />Now, a powerful Israeli cabinet minister is offering to express his gratitude by putting Mr. Trump’s name on a proposed new train station in the Old City, one<br />that would bring thousands of tourists directly into the Jewish Quarter just a few hundred yards from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.<br />27, 2017<br />JERUSALEM — In the uneasy days after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some Israelis who cheered the move paid homage —<br />and taunted outraged Palestinians — by posting doctored photos of the Dome of the Rock with the president’s surname plastered across it, as if one of Islam’s holiest shrines had been reduced to the latest gold-plated Trump property.
