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Moscow’s underground railway construction engineers are exploring the Israeli territory to construct a tunnel along a railroad that links Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 

A few days ago, the launching ceremony of a giant tunnel boring shield was held by smashing a bottle of wine against the machine in accordance with ship builders’ tradition.
Russia’s “Mosmetrostroi” company entered the Israeli Market in 2010 when it won a 5 billion ruble (about $170 million) tender together with a local company “Minrav” to build a tunnel for the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem rail road. It took two years for the paper work and installing the giant boring machine to start laying a road through the Judean Mountains.
At the ceremony, Israeli experts spoke highly of their Russian colleagues. “I am happy that cooperation between Israel and Russia has started and earnestly hope that this will be only the beginning,” Israeli Transport Minister, Israel Kats said. “The level of cooperation with “Mosmetrostroi” is simply fantastic. A group of experienced engineers and technicians is working here,” a representative of the “Minrav” company Asaf Bakhar said. There is nothing surprising here, because Moscow underground railway builders excellently work in all sites, says a Russian expert in transport, Alexei Bezborodov.
“Who else can build underground railways except experts from several countries? Russians are known for this work in India and all CIS member countries. In short, they can help the entire Eastern Europe and even Asia in construction and providing advanced technology. There have been only favourable reports concerning the work of Russia’s underground railway builders. Metro is a social project that resolves certain transport problems in various cities,” Alexei Bezborodov said.



(source: www.english.ruvr.ru)