Videos show women from Brothers in Arms protest movement and Bnei Brak-bound passengers trying to drown out each other's words with song

Minister's dry run highlights technical difficulties, as some decry fact train won't run on Shabbat and officials fear high demand will cause severe overcrowding

PM snips ribbon during opening ceremony at Red Line terminus in Petah Tikva, as hundreds rally outside; Tel Aviv mayor boycotts event

Disruptions to continue throughout the day; anti-government protest leaders allege police closing off roads to limit demonstrations against the PM

Miri Regev is met with cries of 'shame' in Jaffa as she tests light rail before public opening Friday; protesters decry train's closure on Shabbat in secular city

Netanyahu says Israel 'a free country, in which nobody will set limits on who can use public transportation,' following series of incidents involving drivers and Haredi passengers

Incident is one of several reports of bus drivers illegally discriminating against women in past week

Transportation Ministry gives steep cuts in cost of monthly passes to residents of geographic and socioeconomic peripheral areas, including Jerusalem, most Haredi and Arab towns

Line will run from the eastern part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area via Ramat Gan and Givatayim to the city center

The new line will take travelers around Jerusalem's top sites like the Israel Museum and Mahane Yehuda market