NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit at present printed pre-qualification (PQ) Infra 2 tenders for the Tel Aviv Metropolitan space Metro price an total NIS 30 billion.
In June NTA introduced that 20 worldwide and Israeli consortia, encompassing 33 corporations, filed requests to bid within the PQ Infra 1 tenders, that are price about NIS 65 billion.
Whereas Infra 1 primarily contains civil infrastructure works like tunnelling, Infra 2 offers with trains, carriages, signalling methods, electrical energy and working the system.
NTA goals to function autonomous trains, so the Metro will likely be designed to function absolutely mechanically, utilizing GOA4 expertise. The system will allow sensible real-time management and monitoring, excessive operational precision, and a sophisticated stage of security. The signaling, electrification, communications, and security methods will likely be related to a single system that can allow steady, dependable, and secure operation of the community. That is to permit a practice each 90 seconds and can let the system transport 2 million passengers a day.
Nevertheless, the will to implement essentially the most superior expertise can also limit the tender to the only a few worldwide gamers that know methods to present such trains. NTA is conscious of this and is presently working to extend the variety of potential bidders as a lot as attainable. As well as, using autonomous trains might make it somewhat simpler for politicians to approve its operation, even on Shabbat.
“In search of the very best companions”
In a couple of 12 months the outcomes of the tender itself will likely be introduced – with one group anticipated to win the M1 line (which is able to join the northern and southern cities within the Tel Aviv Metropolitan area) and one other group to win the M2 line (which is able to run from Tel Aviv eastwards) and the M3 line (which is able to run by, amongst different areas, Herzliya Pituah, West Ramat Hasharon, Ramat HaChayal and Kiryat Atidim, Kiryat Aryeh and Holon East).
Whereas preliminary Metro infrastructure work can already be seenthe first works on Infra 1 and a couple of will solely be seen in the direction of the tip of 2028 and the start of 2029.
NTA CEO Itamar Ben-Meir mentioned, “The Metro is likely one of the most important and complicated infrastructure tasks on this planet at present, and due to this fact we’re on the lookout for the very best companions to take take part in it. Over the previous 12 months, we’ve met with main corporations from all over the world which have expressed curiosity within the challenge, and we count on to see the very best and most skilled of them be a part of us. Our purpose is obvious: to carry to Israel a sophisticated, dependable and secure Metro system of the very best requirements on this planet, and to create an actual transport legacy for future generations.”
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Minister of Transport director basic Moshe Ben-Zaken added, “We’ll carry to Israel essentially the most superior transport methods on this planet and infrastructure to function an revolutionary, secure and dependable Metro community. The Ministry of Transport, along with NTA and all companion entities, continues to advertise the nationwide challenge that can change the face of transport, strengthen the financial system and supply the general public with a sophisticated transport answer for the approaching a long time.”
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on August 24, 2026.
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