Highway 3 (Israel)

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ISR-HW-3.svg
Highway 3
Hebrew: כביש 3
Arabic: طريق السريع 3
Highway 3 (Israel)
Highway 3 in the West Bank.png
Map of the former segments of the Highway in the West Bank, Now declassified.
Route information
Part of Mashreq-M40.gif
(Ratified by Palestine but not by Israel)
Length47 km (29 mi)
Major junctions
West end
  • Abba Hillel Silver Junction
Major intersections
East end
  • Mevo Horon Junction
Location
Country Israel
Major citiesAshkelon, Hodaya, Kiryat Malakhi, Yad Binyamin, Yesodot, Hulda, Nachshon, Latrun, Modi'in
Highway system
ISR-HW-2.svg Highway 2 ISR-HW-4.svg Highway 4

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.

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Plan for the future

Abba Hillel Silver Junction Hwy 4 - Abba Hillel Silver Junction.jpg
Abba Hillel Silver Junction

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

District [3] Location [4] kmmiNameDestinationsNotes
Southern Ashkelon 00.0צומת אבא הלל
(Abba Hillel Junction)
ISR-FW-4.svgISR-HW-4.svg Highway 4
Nir Israel 21.2צומת ניר ישראל
(Nir Yisrael Junction)
ISR-HW-3500.svg Road 3500
Hodaya 42.5צומת הודיה
(Hodaya Junction)
ISR-HW-232.svg Route 232
Negba 74.3צומת נגבה
(Negba Junction)
ISR-HW-3612.svg Road 3612
Masu'ot Yitzhak 85.0צומת משואות יצחק
(Masu'ot Yitzhak Junction)
Local road
Merkaz Shapira 95.6צומת מרכז שפירא
(Shapira Center Junction)
Entrance roadNamed after Haim-Moshe Shapira
Ein Tsurim 106.2צומת עין צורים
(Ein Tsurim Junction)
Entrance road
Shafir 116.8צומת שפיר
(Shafir Junction)
ISR-HW-3613.svg Road 3613
Kfar Warburg
Avigdor
138.1צומת כפר ורבורג-אביגדור
(Kfar Warburg-Avigdor Junction)
Local roadsNamed after Felix M. Warburg & Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
Be'er Tuvia 14.59.0צומת טוביה
(Tuvia Junction)
Yigal Hurwitz Blvd.
ISR-HW-3703.svg Road 3703
Kiryat Malakhi 169.9צומת מלאכי / קסטינה
(Malakhi Junction / Qastina)
ISR-HW-40.svg Highway 40
Kfar Ahim 1811צומת אחים
(Ahim Junction
Local road
Central Bnei Re'em 2012צומת ראם
(Re'em Junction)
ISR-HW-40.svg Highway 40
Yoav 2113צומת שערי אברהם
(She'arei Avraham Junction)
ISR-HW-383.svg Route 383
Revadim 2214צומת רבדים
(Revadim Junction)
Entrance road
Beit Hilkia 2415צומת בית חלקיה
(Beit Hilkia Junction)
ISR-HW-3933.svg Road 3933
Yad Binyamin 2516צומת יד בנימין
(Yad Binyamin Junction)
Entrance road
2616מחלף שורק
(Sorek Interchange)
and railway overpass [5]
ISR-FW-6.svg Highway 6 Named after nearby Sorek River
26.516.5ISR-HW-7.svg Highway 7
Yesodot 2918צומת יסודות
(Yesodot Junction)
Entrance road
Hulda 3321צומת חולדה
(Hulda Junction)
ISR-HW-411.svg Route 411
Tal Shahar 3522צומת נחשון
(Nachshon Junction)
ISR-HW-44.svg Highway 44 Named after Operation Nachshon
Beko'a 3622מחלף בקוע
(Beko'a Interchange)
Entrance road
Nahshon
Neve Shalom
3824מחלף נחשון / נווה שלום
(Mahshon / Neve Shalom Interchange)
Local road
Latrun 4125צומת חטיבה שבע
(Hativa Sheva Junction)
ISR-HW-424.svg Route 424
Green Line
Judea and Samaria Latrun 4226מחלף לטרון
(Latrun Interchange)
ISR-FW-1.svgISR-HW-1.svg Highway 1
Modi'in 4528צומת מודיעין
(Modi'in Junction)
HaHashmonaim Blvd.
Mevo Horon 4729צומת מבוא חורון
(Mevo Horon Junction)
ISR-HW-4556.svg Road 4556
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Hazardous road

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

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References

  1. "Infrastructure projects which went wrong - deviating from funding and schedules" (PDF). Calcalist. Retrieved 2013-10-25.(in Hebrew)
  2. "Disputed villages in the Latrun area". Ma'ariv. 1948-08-12. Retrieved 2013-10-25.(in Hebrew)
  3. Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "מחוזות משרד הפנים" [Ministry of Interior districts] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  4. Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "גבולות ישובים" [Locality boarders] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  5. Street View: Highway 3 overpassing Highway 6 and the Lod - Beer Sheva Railway Line (Map). Google Maps. March 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
  6. "המפה המלאה של הכבישים האדומים בישראל". 5 November 2012.

See also

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