Kerem Tunnel (Hebrew: מנהרת כרם, Minheret Kerem) is a tunnel in southwest Jerusalem, Israel. It is currently the only cycling tunnel in Israel.[1]

The tunnel was originally built in the 1990s by Hagihon (Jerusalem's water company) to run a sewage pipe from the city's southwestern neighborhoods to the Sorek stream sewage treatment plant. The tunnel is 2.1 kilometers long and 3 meter wide.

In 2018, surrounding several large cyclosportive events, the tunnel was officially made a part of the Jerusalem Ring Path, a 42-kilometer cycling route, connecting the path between the valley of Rephaim and the valley of Motza.[2] The Tunnel's southern entrance is in the Rephaim Park, below Ein Lavan, and its northern entrance is in the valley of Ein Kerem, about half a kilometer from the Kerem junction. The tunnel was opened for cyclists in September 2022.[1] During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war the tunnel was closed between October 7th 2023 until December 5th 2023.

Activity time

Summer time 7:00 -> 19:00

Winter time 7:00 -> 16:30

References

  1. 1 2 "Israel's first cycling tunnel opens in Jerusalem". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  2. ↑ "Riding Through the Hills, From Refaim to Sorek Streams: The New Bike Tunnel of Jerusalem". Haaretz. Retrieved 2022-09-28.


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