Highway 3 (Israel)

Highway 3
כביש 3
Kvish Shalosh
Route information
Part of
(Ratified by Palestine but not by Israel)
Length: 53 km (33 mi)
Major junctions
West end:
  • Abba Hillel Silver Junction
 
East end:
  • Beit Horon Junction
Location
Major cities: Ashkelon, Hodaya, Kiryat Malakhi, Yad Binyamin, Yesodot, Hulda, Nachshon, Latrun, Modi'in
Highway system

Roads in Israel

Highways
Abba Hillel Silver Junction

Highway 3 is a highway in Israel. It begins at Highway 4 on the outskirts of Ashkelon, running east-northeast, passing through Kiryat Malakhi and Latrun, and ending just short of Modi'in.

Plan for the future

The Israeli Ministry of Transportation plans for Highway 3 to be a major route that will connect the South District to Jerusalem via Latrun Interchange and Highway 1. The National Roads Company of Israel is converting the road to a multi-lane divided highway. Despite this, the road will not become an expressway because it is the only means of entrance to many nearby communities.

Israel Railways is constructing flying junctions between Highway 3 and the rail tracks that cross it.

Path of Highway 3 from northeast to southwest

The northeast part of Highway 3 begins at Beit Horon Junction near Modi'in. It intersects Highways 1 and 6 and then passes several kibbutzim and moshavim until Re'em Junction where it joins Highway 40, running concurrently for 4 km until Malakhi Junction in Kiryat Malakhi. The Latrun–Nahshon section (between the intersections with highways 1 and 44) is the first concrete highway in Israel.[1]

After the roads split, Highway 3 continues in Kiryat Malakhi and past more kibbutzim and moshavim until Abba Hillel Silver Junction east of Ashkelon, which intersects with Highway 4.

In the past, Highway 3 reached Ramallah and Jericho and terminated at Allenby bridge across the Jordan river.[2] After the Oslo Accords in 1993, the portion of the road that passes through Ramallah and Jericho was transferred to Palestinian control (as with Highway 60), and portions of the road that remained under Israeli control were renamed as local roads.

Junctions and Interchanges

km Name Type Meaning Location Intersecting roads
0 צומת אבא הלל סילבר
(Abba Hillel Silver Junction)		 Ashkelon,
Kfar Silver		 Highway 4
0.5 Kfar Silver entrance road
2 צומת ניר ישראל
(Nir Yisrael Junction)		 Yisrael's Meadow Nir Yisrael,
Hodaya		 Route 3500
4 צומת הודיה
(Hodaya Junction)		 (Prayer of) Thanksgiving Hodaya Route 232
7 צומת נגבה
(Negba Junction)		 Southward (biblical Hebrew) Negba local road
8 צומת משואות יצחק
(Masu'ot Yizhak Junction)		 Torches of Isaac Masu'ot Yizhak local road
9 צומת מרכז שפירא
(Merkaz Shapira Junction)		 Shapira Center
named after
Haim-Moshe Shapira		 Merkaz Shapira entrance road
10 צומת עין צורים
(Ein Tzurim Junction)		 Rocks' Spring Ein Tzurim entrance road
11 צומת שפיר
(Shaffir Junction)		 Beautiful (biblical Hebrew) Shafir Route 3613
13 צומת כפר ורבורג-אביגדור
(Kfar Varburg-Avigdor Junction)		 named for
Felix M. Warburg
Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid		 Kfar Warburg,
Avigdor		 local roads
14.5 צומת טוביה
(Tuvia Junction)		 named for
Tuvia's Well		 Be'er Tuvia,
Kiryat Malakhi South		 Yigal Hurwitz Blvd.
Route 3703
15 Kiryat Malakhi Center,
Be'er Tuvia
Industrial Zone		 Ben Gurion Blvd.
The Well Street
15.5 Kiryat Malakhi North Menachem Begin Blvd.
16 צומת מלאכי
(Malakhi Junction)		 (Prophet) Malakhi
My Angel		 Highway 40
16.7 (eastbound only) Arugot local road
18 צומת אחים
(Ahim Junction)		 Brothers
(Zvi and Efraim Guber)		 Kfar Ahim,
Talmei Yehiel,
Yinon
Achva
Arugot		 local road
20 צומת ראם
(Re'em Junction)		 Rebbe Avraham Mordechai Bnei Re'em Highway 40
21 צומת שערי אברהם
(Shearei Avraham Junction)		 Gates of Abraham Sha'arei Avraham Route 383
22 צומת רבדים
(Revadim Junction)		 Echelons Revadim entrance road
24 צומת בית חלקיה
(Beit Helkiya Junction)		 House of
My Portion of the Lord		 Beit Hilkia Route 3933
25 צומת יד בנימין
(Yad Binyamin Junction)		 Benjamin's Memorial Yad Binyamin entrance road
26 מחלף שורק
(Sorek Interchange)
and railway overpass[3]
named for nearby
Sorek River
Choice Vine		 Yad Binyamin,
Lod - Beer Sheva
Railway Line		 Highway 6
27.5 צומת כביש 7
(Highway 7 Junction)
Highway 7 Highway 7
29 צומת יסודות
(Yesodot Junction)		 Foundations Yesodot entrance road
30.2 railway underpass[4] Jerusalem - Tel Aviv
Railway Line
33 צומת חולדה
(Hulda Junction)		 The Perpetual Hulda,
Mishmar David,
Tal Shahar		 Route 411
35 צומת נחשון
(Nahshon Junction)		 Pioneer (literary Hebrew)
named after
Operation Nachshon		 Nachshon Highway 44
36 מחלף בקוע
(Beko'a Interchange)
Splitting Beko'a entrance road
38 מחלף נחשון / נווה שלום
(Nahshon / Neve Shalom
Interchange)
Pioneer /
Oasis of Peace		 Nahshon,
Neve Shalom		 local road
41 צומת חטיבה שבע
(Hativa Sheva Junction)		 7th (Armored) Brigade Latrun Monastery,
Mini Israel Theme Park
Yad La-Shiryon		 Route 424
41.1 Green Line
42 מחלף לטרון
(Latrun Interchange)
The Castle (of the Knights)
or
(The House of the Good) Thief		 Latrun,
Emmaus Nicopolis		 Highway 1
43 Canada Park entrance road
44.8 railway underpass[5] Jerusalem - Tel Aviv
High-Speed Rail
45 Modi'in,
Nof Ayalon,
Sha'alvim		 HaHashmonaim Blvd.
47 צומת מבוא חורון
(Mevo Horon Junction)		 Horon Gateway Mevo Horon Ayalon Blvd.
48 Beit Likiya (blocked)
52 Beit Sira (blocked)
53 צומת בית חורון
(Beit Horon Junction)		 House of Horon Modi'in Route 443
(blocked)

Hazardous road

15 km of highway 3 had been declared as a red road by the Israeli police in 2015.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Infrastructure projects which went wrong - deviating from funding and schedules" (PDF). Calcalist. Retrieved 2013-10-25.(Hebrew)
  2. ↑ "Disputed villages in the Latrun area". Ma'ariv. 1948-08-12. Retrieved 2013-10-25.(Hebrew)
  3. ↑ Street View: Highway 3 overpassing Highway 6 and the Lod - Beer Sheva Railway Line (Map). Google Maps. 2012-03. Retrieved 2013-12-24. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ Highway 3 seen across center under Jerusalem - Tel Aviv Railway Line (Map). Panoramio via Google Maps. 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
  5. ↑ Highway 3 seen below-center under Jerusalem - Tel Aviv High-Speed Rail (Map). Panoramio via Google Maps. 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
  6. ↑ http://www.mako.co.il/cars-cars-news/safety/Article-72d89ccb78fca31006.htm

See also

Coordinates: 31°46′29″N 34°48′28″E / 31.77472°N 34.80778°E / 31.77472; 34.80778

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