Har Adar, Israel
Hi,
It has been over a week and the echo of the blast can heard over Israel.
Well it was more like a fart, for a country that used to buildings been blown off by missiles and bombs.
Maybe because it was an organized explosion and for good purposes, it made people to arrange Facebook events to watch it and made them wake to the early 6 AM blast.
It was also an iconic infrastructure that was blown up – Ma’ariv bridge. It was called the Nesharim Gesher (=”Bridge of the gyps”) after the warriors that fell during Operation Entebbe, but everybody called him Ma’ariv bridge after the newspaper building that was built next to it.
You can see how the explosion made people react…
Take Care
Gad
Building the bridge in 1976. It had steel beams, a rare thing in Israel even today, for it was designed as a temporary bridge until an a tunnel will be built. Since than 40 years had passed…
Demolishing the bridge. At first, the explosion was supposed to be two weeks ago. But after Facebook invitations were made, the police asked the postpone it.
There was also the fear that the explosion might damage near by building windows. So, most of the bridge was demolished before.
It raised the question – why blowing it up? can’t it be demolished
The answer is probably because it looks better in the news…
The bridge engineer complained that this bridge can be assembled and assembled again like other bridge like it
The Explosion…
The bridge after the explosion….
Couple of days later, like there was never a bridge.
Yisrael Katz, Minister of transportation, blowing up the bridge….
Upper pic says – bridge
Lower pic says – ramp
Proportions please…
How I thought Maariv bridge will look like…
How it was really like…
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