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On the day it opened, Tel Aviv's Darom (South ) train station was thronged with people. On one wall read the inscription: "Gateway to the capital, the Negev and the Arava." At the opening ceremony on a chilly November day in 1970, Transportation Minister Shimon Peres cut the ribbon at the station that was supposed to connect the country's south to the center.