Rav Kav- ( details on how to ride and PAY for public transportation).Border Crossing - Beit She'an ("Jordan River" / "Sheikh Hussein bridge").You might want to rearrange your itinerary. There will be buses on the Thursday running to a Friday timetable. Whether that will still be the case in late April is anyone's guess, so it's impossible to know today whether there will be trains on that Thursday, and based on past experience it won't be announced until only a few days before. Currently there are no trains on Fridays because of development work. In principle, Thursday April 21 will be like a Friday. So, effectively it's two consecutive days of Shabbat, starting on Thursday April 21 at sunset, with last buses/trains at around 3 p.m., resuming after dark on Saturday.April 23. And then two or three days before the holiday the website puts an announcement on the home page (as far as I remember only in Hebrew) saying that there will be no trains on the holiday - when of course all Israelis know that public transport doesn't run on that day. We go through this regularly on the forum we assure people that there will be no trains on XXX holiday despite what the website says. The Israel Railways website is notorious for failing to take holidays into account. The bus is far more comfortable than the sherut, and it's almost nonstop all the way. All intercity buses have a big luggage compartment. You don't need a Rav-Kav for that starting at what is effectively a central bus station means that you can buy your ticket from the human ticket seller at the ticket window before you get on the bus. The clocks go forward to summer time (daylight saving) on March 25 (the night between March 24 and 25), and from that date the last buses will most likely be later. However, you don't say when this will be. There are direct buses from Haifa to Jerusalem: the 960 from the bus terminal next to Merkazit Hamifratz railway station (last one on Friday is at 15:45 arriving Jerusalem at 17:50 (which is considerably later than the last train on a Friday would be in normal times), or the 940 from the bus terminal next to Hof Hacarmel railway station at 15:00 arriving Jerusalem 17:01 (!). Sherut is unpredictable because you have to wait for it to fill up - 10 passengers you could be the 10th that the other nine are waiting for, or you could just miss one and have to wait for another nine people to show up. And there are never trains on Saturdays until after dark. There are currently no trains on Fridays because of development work on the railways.
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