Route 505 (Israel–Palestine)

Route 505
כביש 505
Route information
Length	56.5 km (35.1 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Samaria Gate Interchange
East end	Petza'el Junction
Location
Country	Israel
Highway system
Roads in Israel Highways
← Route 491 → Route 508

Route 505 is a regional Israeli highway in the West Bank.

History

Until the 1990s, only Route 505 was considered the "Trans-Samaria Highway". Highway 5, which hadn't yet been upgraded to a highway, was a narrow, curved two-lane road that reached the Kassem junction and continued as a minimal two-lane road for 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the entrance to Kfar Kassem. At this point, the road (today's Highway 5) connected to the old Route 505, which crossed Kfar Kassem.

An early improvement was to extend and pave Route 5 along an additional 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) as a bypass road, which ended where the Sha'ar Shomron Interchange exists now. Eastward beyond that, the Trans-Samaria Highway was only Route 505. During the late 1990s and during the 2000s the National Roads Company of Israel continued to develop Route 5 as a two-lane highway in a new route south of Route 505 instead of upgrading the 505 route so that the two highways were parallel for a distance of about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi). Since November 2008, route 5 has ended at the Ariel junction, where it connects with Route 505 which continues as the "Trans-Samaria Highway" to the intersection with Highway 90 in the Petza'el intersection in the Jordan Valley.

In 2010 Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz ordered the planning for the route to connect the Gush Dan region with the Jordan Valley. ^[1]

Interchanges and Junctions (West to East)

District [2]	Location [3]	km	mi	Name	Destinations	Notes
Judea and Samaria	Oranit Elkana	0	0.0	מחלף שער שומרון (Samaria Gate Interchange)	Highway 5
	Sha'arei Tikva	1.7	1.1	צומת אורנית (Oranit Junction)	Road 5050
		3	1.9	צומת שערי תקווה (Sha'arei Tikva Junction)	Inbar Street
	Elkana	3.8	2.4	צומת אלקנה (Elkana Junction)	Adnei Paz Road
		4.1	2.5		Smadar Street
Highway 505 between Elkana and Kiryat Netafim (5.5 km) is open only to residents of the local villages
Judea and Samaria	Kiryat Netafim	12	7.5	צומת קריית נטפים (Kiryat Netafim Junction)	Entrance to Kiryat Netafim
	Barkan	12.1	7.5	צומת יקיר גדול (Yakir Gadol Junction)	Entrance to Barkan Industrial Park
	Revava Haris	13.5	8.4	צומת יקיר קטן (Yakir Katan Junction)	Road 5066
		14.5	9.0	צומת גיתי (Gitai Junction)	Highway 5	Western end of concurrency with Highway 5
	Ariel Kifl Haris	17	11	צומת אריאל (Ariel Junction)	Highway 5 Road 4775	Eastern end of concurrency with Highway 5
	Kfar Tapuach	26.4	16.4	צומת תפוח (Tapuach Junction)	Highway 60 Road 4775
	Migdalim	37	23	צומת מגדלים (Migdalim Junction)	Road 5077
	Majdal Bani Fadil	39	24	צומת אלון (Allon Junction)	Route 458	Western end of concurrency with Allon Road
	Gitit Ma'ale Efrayim	43.5	27.0	צומת מעלה אפרים (Ma'ale Efrayim Junction)	Route 508	Eastern end of concurrency with Allon Road
	Ma'ale Efrayim	47	29	מסעף מעלה אפרים (Ma'ale Efrayim Branch)	Bnei Efraim Street
	Petza'el	55	34	מסעף פצאל (Petza'el Branch)	Road 5085
		56.5	35.1	צומת פצאל (Petza'el Junction)	Highway 90
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi        Concurrency terminus

See also

• List of highways in Israel

References

1. Chaim Levinson (4 May 2010). שר התחבורה ישראל כץ: משרד התחבורה מקדם הקמת רשת רכבות ביו"ש [Transport Minister Israel Katz: Department of Transportation promotes the establishment of a railway network in the West Bank]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
2. Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "מחוזות משרד הפנים" [Ministry of Interior districts] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.
3. Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "גבולות ישובים" [Locality borders] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.