It was also reinforce, indisputably, Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital city of Israel. If we get rid of the violent Arabs and the obnoxious Neturei Karta and Satmer, there would be no problem in attracting TONS of visitors to Jerusalem; and not just the religious, either.

Doesn't Israel need an additional airport? TLV was fine when Israel had maybe 5 million people. But at 8+ million and record tourism, unless they can add runways to Lod, maybe they should expand and lengthen the runway at Haifa to expand capacity. Right now, all it can handle is regional prop planes.

If you want to improve Jerusalem's image, improve things in Jerusalem which don't work rather than renaming things outside of it as 'JLM'. Tel Aviv is an open, cosmopolitan,working as well as celebrating city. It is connected to the world and so is its airport. Jerusalem is a beautiful, but at the same time suffocating place, full of fanaticism and poverty (some freely chosen, and some inflicted). It is no gate to the world, and attaching the BG airport would be as misplaced as the hanging bridge at its entrance .

Talking about Right Thing at the worst possible place!

nice drops, thnx

my sister was visiting from florida, when she tried to use the light rail. she had 6.70 in change and a 50 shekel note. she was told by the dielet she can walk or ask someone -beg- for 20 agurot, the machines only change 20 shekel notes. is it any wonder jlm has so many beggars?