Ooh, train, nifty.  How long does it take you to get between the two cities?  I wanted to take the train while we were there, since there's the nifty new station in Beit Shemesh, but we never got our act together enough to take it.  Maybe next time we come to Israel; we had enough stuff to do that we never made it to anywhere near the sea shore (unless you count either being on the highway to Tzfat or being at the airport in Tel Aviv).  Heck, I still want to check out the Golan, too, and Eilat, and the Negev, stay somewhere in a hotel on a kibbutz, and, and, and... <pant pant>  Sorry, got carried away there.