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A Fast Train

Twenty eight minutes from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Just imagine [to
yourselves] for how many people such a fast train will change daily life.
But a new fight between the big contractor in the project, Shafir company,
and the train, is threatening to disrupt plans. Shafir designed and built a
giant tunnel; inside this tunnel there are smaller tunnels that connect the
different parts, which the train (company) designed. Except that one of
these tunnels collapsed. The argument is about the thickness of the
concrete in the tunnels. The train designed the tunnels with a concrete
width of twenty centimeters. Shafir claims that this width is too thin, and is
what caused the collapse. The train explains that the width is sufficient, but
the execution isn’t good enough. Now, the court will have to determine
whether at the tunnels, which are supposed to house millions of passengers
a year, there’s a design flaw that might jeopardize those passengers. It
seems that in this case, all sides are hoping that the answer to that will be
(in the) negative.

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