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I know the builders of the new Givat Zev are advertising on YE, but come on — 10 minutes to the Kosel? Maybe if you have a helicopter!
I was there last summer for two weeks.
is it safe / what size dirot?
If you take the exit straight on to 443 and go off at the Ramot exit and go on Route 1, I would imagine it would take about 25 minutes, but you’re right, it’s an exaggeration and does not make for good advertising.
Just as an aside, I looked at the ad one more time and see that it says “10 minutes from the center of Jerusalem” not about the Kotel. Someone else mentioned the Kotel comment as well, so perhaps there was a change in the wording of the article. Anyway, I just want to add that for most of the people who live in this type of neighborhood, “the center of Jerusalem” is more likely the Geulah area or the shopping areas around that, but even so, there are definitely ways to make this trip in 15 minutes as I know someone who gets to Har Nof in the mornings in 20 minutes.
A brand-new, 2012-built settlement right next to Ramallah, far beyond the Green Line.
Don’t start crying if you get kicked out of your houses there some day, when the forced evacuation comes. It’s your choice to go live there.
10 mins? where do they get that from? Givat Zev has many positive features, but location isn’t one of them.
i live in givat zev and it is at least 20 minutes from geula.
The Chassidishe Gatesheader- as for the “green line’ comment, ramot and ramat shlomo are also over the green line. where you live there is no line at all, we at least have a line to argue over!!
C&P – Just saying, but location IS one of GZ’s positive features. It is minutes outside of Ramot and the prices of apartments here are much lower – I bought mine for about 40% of what I would have paid for something even as close to the center of Yerushalayim as Ramat Shlomo, which as mutche says, is ALSO over the green line.
And there you have a chance to dven with the Stoliner Rebbe and his Bais Medrash and experience Tfillah like never before. Let the soul be ignited!
Sorry Rabbaim, not in GZ Hachadasha (which is what has been advertised on YWN), it’s in a totally different area. The Karlin neighborhood is a long, long walk, outside of the techum for Shabbos, and it is even a 15 minute bus ride away from there.
My apt in Ramot has a birds eye view of Golda, and Begin (Route one combo. It is famous for the 8 o’clock pkak (standstill traffic jam. Otherwise, fine roads, I can be in Rehavia/ shaarei chesed, in 15 minutes, and GZ 10 to 15 driving parevly. Ramot is big enough, and GZ is spread enough that you can lose some minutes just getting to the highway. And timing is everything. If you want to do netz at the Kosel, there is not much resistance before 7, but it would still be 25 driving meshuga. I give hakoras hatov every day that I escaped my morning commute.
Twisted, I agree 100%. We are very happy that they have finally opened up our access to 443, which goes right to Begin. We are 1 minute from that entrance and, as long as you don’t go to Yerushalayim at the peak hours when you could get stuck in the pkak at the machsom, then it is pretty quick to get to most places. I think the ad picks the Kosel, because that is something that draws all Yidden, but in all honesty it is very difficult to get there in 10 minutes from anywhere short of Meah Shearim.
If I recall correctly, when they were first advertising Kiryat Sefer thay wrote something like: 20 minutes from Yerushalayim! 20 minutes from Bnei Braq.
When Rav Shach zt”l saw the ad he said, Its faster to drive from Yerushalayim to Kiryat Sefer to Bnei Braq than it is to drive direct!!
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