List of Israeli highways

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This is a list of Israeli highways. Besides highways in Israel proper, it includes highways in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, because the Israeli administration maintains them in these areas.

There are 48 designated Israeli highways. Most of these are open-access arterial expressways, which may be entered from ordinary junctions. Some are limited-access freeways, which may be entered from interchanges. Six highways are freeways, six are partially limited-access freeways and partially expressways, and the other 35 are expressways. There is only one three-digit road in the country classified as a freeway, Route 431. Highway 6, the Trans-Israel Highway, is the only toll road.

Two of the expressways (Highway 57 and Highway 60) are divided into several separate sections as a result of an IDF decree forbidding Israelis from traveling on certain stretches of these highways (see Notes below).

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Road Classification Length Start location Intermediate locations End location
Highway 1 Freeway,
part Expressway
94 km Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport, Lod, Jerusalem Jordan River
Valley
Highway 2 Freeway,
part Expressway
89 km Tel Aviv Herzliya, Netanya, Hadera Haifa
Highway 3 Expressway 53 km Ashkelon Kiryat Mal'akhi Mevo Horon
Highway 4 Expressway,
part Freeway
205 km Erez border crossing Ashkelon, Ashdod, Yavne, Rishon LeZion, Holon, Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Kfar Saba, Raanana, Netanya, Hadera, Haifa, HaKerayot, Akko, Nahariya Rosh HaNikra Crossing
Highway 5 Freeway,
part Expressway
40 km Tel Aviv Ramat Hasharon, Petah Tikva, Rosh HaAyin Ariel
Highway 6 Tollway 180 km Shoket Interchange Rosh HaAyin, Kfar Saba, Yokneam, Kiryat Gat, Beer Sheva, Harish, Kiryat Tivon Eliakim
Highway 7 Expressway 16 km Gedera Yad Binyamin
Highway 9 Freeway 12.2 km Mikhmoret Elyakhin, Hadera Maor, Sde Yitzhak
Highway 10 Expressway 182 km Sayarim Valley Nitzana Kerem Shalom
Highway 12 Expressway 71 km Eilat Ovda Neot Smadar
Highway 13 Expressway 12 km Menuha Plain Tzhiha Valley
Highway 20 Freeway 34.6 km Gan Sorek Rishon LeZion, Bat Yam, Holon, Tel Aviv, Giv'atayim, Ramat Gan Herzliya
Highway 22 Freeway
17 km Haifa HaKrayot Kfar Masaryk
Highway 23
(Carmel Tunnels)
Freeway,
mostly tunnel
8 km Haifa Haifa
Highway 25 Expressway 118 km Nahal Oz Netivot, Beersheba, Dimona Arava
Highway 31 Expressway 85 km Eshel HaNassi Lehavim, Hura, Kuseife, Arad Neve Zohar
Highway 34 Expressway 20 km Netivot Sderot Yad Mordechai
Highway 35 Expressway 58 km Ashkelon Kiryat Gat Hebron
Highway 38 Expressway,

Part Freeway

29 km Bet Govrin Bet Shemesh Sha'ar HaGai
Highway 39 (planned) Freeway 25 km (planned) Nir Banim Valley of Elah Jerusalem
Highway 40 Expressway 300 km Lotan Mitzpe Ramon, Beersheba, Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Mal'akhi, Gedera, Rehovot, Ramla, Lod, Petah Tikva, Hod HaSharon Kfar Saba
Highway 41 Expressway 4 km Ashdod Gedera
Highway 42 Expressway 19 km Ashdod Yavne Rishon LeZion
Highway 44 Expressway 41 km Tel Aviv Holon, Lod, Ramle Eshet'el
Highway 45 Expressway 4.7 km Givat Ze'ev Atarot Industrial Zone
Highway 46 Expressway 4 km Ben Gurion
Intl Airport
Tirat Yehuda
Highway 50[1] Freeway 16.2 km Atarot Beit Hanina, Ramot, Har Hotzvim, Kiryat HaLeom, Katamonim, Malha, Gilo Gilo
Highway 55 Expressway 23 km Kfar Saba Karnei Shomron Kedumim
Highway 57
(Western section)[2]
Expressway 15 km Netanya Kfar Yona Nitzanei Oz
Highway 57
(Eastern section)[2]
Expressway 15 km Hamra Adam Bridge
Border Crossing
Highway 60
(Southern section)[3]
Expressway 100 km Beersheba Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem Qalandia
checkpoint
Highway 60
(Central section)[3][4]
Expressway 90 km Geva Binyamin Shilo, Eli Tel Dotan
Highway 60
(Northern section)[3]
Expressway 24 km Jalamah
checkpoint
Afula Nazareth
Highway 61 Expressway 2 km Maor, Sde Yitzhak Baqa al-Gharbiyye
Highway 65 Expressway 90 km Caesarea Hadera, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Umm al-Fahm, Afula Kadarim
Highway 66 Expressway 20 km Ma'ale Iron Yokneam Illit
Highway 70 Expressway 76 km Zikhron Ya'akov Yokneam Illit, Kiryat Tivon, Kiryat Atta, I'billin, Shefar'am, Tamra, Jadeidi-Makr, Abu Sinan Shlomi
Highway 71 Expressway 35 km Afula Bet She'an Jordan River
Border Crossing
Highway 73 Expressway 12 km Nahalal Migdal HaEmek Tel Adashim
Highway 75 Expressway 40 km Haifa Nesher, Kiryat Tivon, Migdal HaEmek, Nazareth Illit Nazareth
Highway 77 Freeway,
part Expressway
47 km Ramat Yishay Zarzir, Kafar Kanna Tiberias
Highway 79 Expressway,
part Freeway
27 km Kiryat Bialik Kiryat Atta, Shefar'am Reineh
Highway 80 Expressway 34 km Ar'ara BaNegev Bet Yatir
Highway 85 Expressway 37 km Akko Shagor, Karmiel, Nahf, Rame Korazim
Highway 87 Expressway 35 km Kfar Nahum Alonei HaBashan
Highway 89 Expressway 58 km Nahariya Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Safed Elifelet
Highway 90 Expressway 480 km Taba
Border Crossing
Eilat, Jericho, Bet She'an, Tiberias, Hatzor HaGlilit, Kiryat Shmona Metula
Highway 91 Expressway 28 km Mahanayim Eyin Zivan
Highway 92 Expressway 24 km Tzemah Bet Tzeyda
Highway 98 Expressway 99 km Ma'agan Majdal Shams Hermon
Ski resort
Highway 99 Expressway 24 km Kiryat Shmona Mas'ade

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Notes[change | change source]

  1. Also referred to as "Sderot (Menachem) Begin", "(Menachem) Begin Boulevard", "Begin Expressway" or "Begin Highway", the road has been known as and still appears on some maps as "Route 404". In 2012, the Israel Ministry of Transport and the Jerusalem Municipality began using the new designation, "Highway 50". New blue "Highway 50" signs are being posted to reflect this change.
  2. 2.0 2.1 At the time of its designation Highway 57 was a consecutive highway, running from Netanya to Adam Bridge Border Crossing. With the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada an IDF decree forbade Israelis from traveling on the Nitzanei Oz – Hamra section, effectively splitting Highway 57 into two separate highways. Final designation of the highway is dependent on the final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 At the time of its designation Highway 60 was a consecutive highway, running from Beersheba to Nazareth. With the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada an IDF decree forbade Israelis from traveling the section between the Qalandia checkpoint and Geva Binyamin and the section between Tel Dotan and the Jalamah checkpoint, effectively splitting Highway 60 into three separate highways. Final designation of the highway is dependent on the final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
  4. Travel on the northernmost 24 km of this section of Highway 60 (Shavei Shomron - Tel Dotan) is recommended only with an IDF escort, due to security concerns.

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