How to Validate a single-trip paper ticket:

Validation of the ticket is performed by inserting it, in the direction of the arrow, into the relevant slot in the validation machine immediately upon boarding the Light Rail. Please ensure that the date and the time of validation are printed on the back of the ticket. 

Using a one-trip paper ticket is limited to the day of purchase.

How to Validate a Rav-Kav Card

A Rav-Kav card must be validated regardless of the type of contract loaded onto the card, including periodic contracts such as daily, weekly, monthly, semester, annual passes, or Stored Value traveling contracts.

Non-paid military servicepersons, pre-military cadets, national service, and service year volunteers must validate their personal card with its designated contract every time they board the train.

Validation of the Rav-Kav card is performed by placing it on the center of the validation machine. When validation is successful, a green light appears on the machine.

The Rav-Kav card must be loaded in advance in the automatic machines located at each of the Light Rail platforms, at the CityPass service center, or on the Rav-Kav website (Hebrew).

Soldiers – Personal Solider Card Validation

Soldiers in mandatory military and career military service are obligated to validate their personal soldier identification upon entering the train.

For your information:

CityPass acts in all aspects of enforcement according to the State’s regulations and in accordance with the law that determines the obligation to purchase and validate ride tickets.

The Light Rail is the first means of transportation in Israel operated by an “open system”, based on trust; the passenger is required to pay and validate the ticket independently, without the interference of a gate or a driver.

The instruction to validate the tickets is a system-wide policy determined by the Ministry of Transportation in view of their intention to introduce an increasing number of open systems in means of transport in Israel today and in the future.

The obligation to validate applies to all kinds of tickets, from paper tickets, stored value contracts and multiple-use tickets through subscription tickets, like monthly, weekly, student passes, etc.

Mandatory validation was determined by the Ministry of Transportation in order to permit the existence of a combined public transportation system for all operators and to grant passage for travelers between different kinds of public transportation within 90 minutes of the first validation time stamp. Without this validation, it will not be possible to maintain this system, which is beneficial for all passengers.

Please note that you must retain your ticket until leaving the destination stop in order to show it to a Light Rail inspector, if asked. 

According to the law, and on the instructions of the Ministry of Transportation. it is compulsory to purchase a suitable ticket in advance, to validate it immediately in the machine every time you board the train, and to ensure validation has been carried out successfully.

A passenger who is found without a ticket, or with a ticket that has not been validated, will be subject to an increased charge

(Increased charge: The full price of the journey with an additional fine of NIS 180).

At ticket inspection, passengers must present or give their ticket to the train official when asked to do so.

Tickets cannot be purchased on the train | Retain your ticket for inspection until after you complete your journey and leaving the station.

Have you boarded the train? Have you validated your ticket? Have a good and safe journey!