Allon Road

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Allon Road
AllonRoad.jpg
Allon Road near the intersection of Routes 508 and 458, south of Migdalim
Route information
Length88 km (55 mi)
Major junctions
South end Kfar Adumim Junction
North end Mehola Junction
Location
Country Israel
Highway system
ISR-HW-457.svg Route 457 Route 458ISR-HW-461.svg Route 461
ISR-HW-505.svg Route 505 Route 508ISR-HW-531.svg Route 531
ISR-HW-574.svg Route 574 Route 578ISR-HW-581.svg Route 581
A road sign indicating the way to the Alon Road Allon Road Sign.png
A road sign indicating the way to the Alon Road

Allon Road is the name given by Israel to Routes 458, 508, and 578 in the West Bank, running roughly south–north along the eastern watershed of the Judaean and Samarian Hills, between Highway 1 near Kfar Adumim east of Jerusalem and Highway 90 at Mehola in the central Jordan Valley.

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History

Allon Plan map Allon Plan.jpg
Allon Plan map

The road was the first step in implementing the Allon Plan, one of the earliest Israeli initiatives to deal with the territory west of Jordan that was occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War. The plan called for the Israeli annexation of the narrow corridor of land along the west of the Jordan River up to the eastern slopes of the Samarian mountains to assure minimal strategical depth while relinquishing the rest of the West Bank to Arab-Jordanian control.

The next step was to establish residential and agricultural settlements as well as military outposts along this strip of land to assure a minimal buffer zone that would hold up in the event of a Jordanian attack until Israeli Army reserve units could mobilize to the area. Between 1967 and 1977, the Israeli Labor Party governments created 21 settlements, mostly agricultural cooperatives in this area.

The effects of this plan can be easily seen from the fact that almost all the settlements on the Allon Road (E.g.: Alon, Rimonim, Gitit) are on the east side.

Junctions (South to North)

District [1] Location [2] kmmiNameDestinationsNotes
Route 458
Judea and Samaria Kfar Adumim 00.0צומת כפר אדומים
(Kfar Adumim Junction)
ISR-HW-1.svg Highway 1
Alon 31.9צומת ללא שם
(Unnamed Junction)
Access road to Kfar Adumim
Entrance to Alon
Ma'ale Mikhmas 138.1צומת מכמש קטן
(Small Mikhmas Junction)
Entrance road
159.3צומת מכור
(Makhur Junction)
ISR-HW-457.svg Route 457
Rimonim 1912צומת רימונים
(Rimonim Junction)
ISR-HW-449.svg Route 449 Southern end of concurrency with ISR-HW-449.svg Route 449
2113צומת רימונים קטן
(Small Rimonim Junction)
Entrance to Rimonim
Kokhav HaShahar 2415צומת מעלה שלמה
(Ma'ale Shlomo Junction)
ISR-HW-449.svg Route 449 Northern end of concurrency with ISR-HW-449.svg Route 449
2516צומת כוכב השחר
(Kokhav HaShahar Junction)
Entrance to Kokhav HaShahar
Al-Mughayyir 3321צומת אל מוע'ייר
(Al-Mughayyir Junction)
Entrance to Al-Mughayyir
Malakhei HaShalom 3421צומת מלאכי השלום
(Malakhei HaShalom Junction)
Entrance to Israeli outpost Malakhei HaShalom
Yishuv HaDa'at
Keida
3622צומת גדעון
(Gideon Junction)
ISR-HW-5055.svg Road 5055
Duma 3924צומת דומא
(Duma Junction)
Entrance to Duma
Majdal Bani Fadil 4025צומת אלון
(Allon Junction)
ISR-HW-505.svg Route 505 Western end of concurrency with ISR-HW-505.svg Route 505
Route 508
Judea and Samaria Gitit
Ma'ale Efrayim
44.527.7צומת מעלה אפרים
(Ma'ale Efrayim Junction)
ISR-HW-505.svg Route 505 Eastern end of concurrency with ISR-HW-505.svg Route 505
Gitit 4629צומת גיתית
(Gitit Junction)
Entrance to Gitit
Mekhora 5735צומת מכורה
(Mekhora Junction)
Entrance to Mekhora
Hamra 6339צומת חמרה
(Hamara Junction)
ISR-HW-57.svg Highway 57 Southern end of concurrency with ISR-HW-57.svg Highway 57
Route 578
Judea and Samaria Hamra 64.540.1צומת בקעות
(Beka'ot Junction)
ISR-HW-57.svg Highway 57 Northern end of concurrency with ISR-HW-57.svg Highway 57
Beka'ot 68.542.6צומת ליד בקעות
(Junction near Beka'ot)
Entrance to Beka'ot
Ro'i 7245צומת רועי
(Ro'i Junction)
Entrance to Ro'i
Hemdat 7547צומת חמדת
(Hemdat Junction)
Entrance to Hemdat
7647ISR-HW-5788.svg Road 5788
Maskiot 8251צומת משכיות
(Maskiot Junction)
Entrance to Maskiot
8352ISR-HW-5799.svg Road 5799
Rotem 8553צומת רותם
(Rotem Junction)
Entrance to Rotem
Mehola 8855צומת מחולה
(Mehola Junction)
ISR-HW-90.svg Highway 90
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "מחוזות משרד הפנים" [Ministry of Interior districts] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  2. Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "גבולות ישובים" [Locality borders] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.

See also

32°05′26″N35°22′47″E / 32.09056°N 35.37972°E / 32.09056; 35.37972