Ilove living in Jerusalem.

For six months, I’ve spent my days wandering through the shuk, haggling with vendors, and enjoying fresh coffee on my morning walks. I’ve made shopping on Ben-Yehuda a weekly ritual, watching street performers from outdoor cafés, and relishing finally living in a city with proper delivery services.

But most of all, when I moved out of my small town – a place where the closest thing to public transportation was hitching a ride with your neighbor – I was so excited to live somewhere with real public transportation. An actual train station with electronic boards displaying arrival times, buses every few minutes running on schedule, and, of course, the crown jewel that makes Jerusalem feel like a real metropolitan city: the light rail .

With such easy access to

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