Well, no one knows, just yet. There are no official answers, but from what i’ve been able to cull from the internet, there were several factors. Some people have said that the tubes used to prop the tunnel up were of inferior quality. Others have said the collapsed site was near a heavily trafficked road, [...]

This CNN article has the number of dead pegged at 4 but it seems that now the official number of dead has risen to five. What makes the whole thing much much worse is the fact that, according to one SIna report that we read, that problems were discovered a month ago. Check out what [...]

I was just reading this article from Ha’aretz about some of China’s major infrastructure projects in Israel, including the Carmel Tunnel. Interesting stuff, for example, a partial list of some of China’s more recent and more prominent projects:

“China’s presence in Israel as an infrastructure builder is new,” says Samuels. “In the past, China used to [...]