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The Bat Galim cable car (; ') is tourist cable car running up and down the mountain from the top of the Carmel, across from the Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery, to Bat Galim, with views of Israel Puts Cable Cars On Display
/ref> It is one of two cable car systems in
The Bat Galim cable car (; ') is tourist cable car running up and down the mountain from the top of the Carmel, across from the Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery, to Bat Galim, with views of Haifa Bay
The Bay of Haifa or Haifa Bay (, ''Mifratz Heifa''), formerly Bay of Acre, is a bay along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel. Haifa Bay is Israel's only natural harbor on the Mediterranean.
''Haifa Bay'' also refers one of Haifa's ni ...
and its surroundings. The cable car began operating in 1986. The route is 355 meters long./ref> It is one of two cable car systems in
Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
, Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
, the other one being the Rakavlit
The Rakavlit or Rachvalit (), a diminutive of , meaning 'cable car', and itself a contraction of , 'train', and , 'cable'), is a gondola lift that is a part of Haifa's expanded public transport system complementing the existing city bus and Metro ...
– a public-transportation aerial tramway
An aerial tramway, aerial tram, sky tram, cable car or aerial cablecar, aerial cableway, ropeway, téléphérique (French), or Seilbahn (German) is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary cables for support, with a third movin ...
in the southeastern part of the city, which ascends from the Haifa Bay public transit hub to the hilly areas housing the University of Haifa
The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...
and the Technion.
See also
*Carmelit
The Carmelit ( Arabic: كرمليت) is an underground funicular railway in Haifa, Israel. Construction started in 1956 and ended in 1959. It is the oldest funicular railway and underground transit system in the Middle East and was the only unde ...
* Egged
* Metronit
The Metronit (, ), also spelled Matronit, is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Haifa, Israel.
Two Metronit lines, line 1 and 5א, operate during the weekend, or Sabbath, i.e. on Friday and Saturday, which is almost unique in Israel – as of 2 ...
* Transportation in Israel
References
External links
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