Highway 3 (Israel)

Highway 3 is a highway

Highway

A highway is any public road. In American English, the term is common and almost always designates major roads. In British English, the term designates any road open to the public. Any interconnected set of highways can be variously referred to as a "highway system", a "highway network", or a...

 in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. It begins at Beit Horon

Beit Horon

Beit Horon is an Israeli settlement and communal village bordering Route 443, the biblical pass of Beit Horon, between Modi'in and Jerusalem. Beit Horon receives municipal services from the Matte Binyamin Regional Council...

 junction with Highway 443

Highway 443 (Israel)

Route 443 , also Ma'ale Beit Horon , is the main highway connecting Modi'in with Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and also serves as a secondary connection between the Tel Aviv area and Jerusalem...

 near Modi'in, it passes through Kiryat Malakhi, and it ends a junction with Highway 4

Highway 4 (Israel)

Highway 4 is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, its route in the north runs from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon until the Erez Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip...

 on the outskirts of Ashkelon

Ashkelon

Ashkelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age...

.

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

Highway 1 (Israel)

Highway 1 , is the main highway connecting Tel Aviv with Jerusalem.-History:The section between Latrun and Jerusalem roughly follows an ancient path connecting Jaffa and Jerusalem...

. The National Roads Company of Israel

National Roads Company of Israel

The National Roads Company of Israel , also called National Roads Authority, is a government-owned corporation, in charge of planning, construction and maintenance of most road infrastructure in Israel, including roads, bridges and interchanges....

 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

Israel Railways

Israel Railways is the principal passenger railway operating company in Israel, and is responsible for all inter-city and suburban rail way passenger and freight traffic in the country. All its lines are standard gauge. The network is centered in Israel's densely populated coastal plain, from...

 is constructing flying junction

Flying junction

A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is "grade-separated junction"...

s 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

Beit Horon

Beit Horon is an Israeli settlement and communal village bordering Route 443, the biblical pass of Beit Horon, between Modi'in and Jerusalem. Beit Horon receives municipal services from the Matte Binyamin Regional Council...

 Junction near Modi'in. It intersects Highways 1 and 6 and then passes several kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

im and moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

im until Re'em Junction where it joins Highway 40

Highway 40 (Israel)

Highway 40 is a north-south intercity road in Israel. At 302 km long, it is the second longest highway in Israel, after Highway 90. The highway runs from Kfar Sava in the center of Israel to the Arabah in the south, serving as a main connection between central Israel and Be'er Sheva.-Route...

, running concurrently

Concurrency (road)

A concurrency, overlap, or coincidence in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers...

 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.

After the roads split, Highway 3 continues in Kiryat Malakhi and past more kibbutzim and moshavim until Abba Hillel Silver

Abba Hillel Silver

Abba Hillel Silver was a U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader. He was a key figure in the mobilization of American support for the founding of the State of Israel.-Biography:...

 Junction east of Ashkelon, which intersects with Highway 4.

In the past, Highway 3 reached Ramallah

Ramallah

Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...

 and Jericho

Jericho

Jericho ; is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories. It is the capital of the Jericho Governorate and has a population of more than 20,000. Situated well below sea level on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea, Jericho is the lowest permanently...

 and terminated at Allenby bridge across the Jordan river. After the Oslo Accords

Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles , was an attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict...

 in 1993, the portion of the road that passes through Ramallah and Jericho was transferred to Palestinian control (as with Highway 60

Highway 60 (Israel)

Highway 60 is a north-south intercity road in Israel and the West Bank that stretches from Beersheba to Nazareth.-Route:The route is also known as the "Route of the Patriarchs" since it follows the path of the ancient highway that runs along the length of the central watershed, and which...

, 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 Abba Hillel Silver Abba Hillel Silver was a U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader. He was a key figure in the mobilization of American support for the founding of the State of Israel.-Biography:...  Junction)		Ashkelon Ashkelon Ashkelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age... Kfar Silver Kfar Silver Kfar Silver is a youth village in southern Israel. Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 316....	Highway 4 Highway 4 (Israel) Highway 4 is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, its route in the north runs from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon until the Erez Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip...
0.5				entrance to Kfar Silver Kfar Silver Kfar Silver is a youth village in southern Israel. Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 316....
2	צומת ניר ישראל (Nir Yisrael Junction)		Yisrael's Meadow	Nir Yisrael Nir Yisrael Nir Yisrael is a moshav in southern Israel. Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 689.... Hodaya	Route 3500
4	צומת הודיה (Hodaya Junction)		(Prayer of) Thanksgiving	Hodaya	Route 232
7	צומת נגבה (Negba Junction)		Southward (biblical Hebrew)	Negba Negba Negba is a kibbutz in the northern Negev, Israel. Located near the cities of Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council...	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 Haim-Moshe Shapira Haim-Moshe Shapira was a key Israeli politician in the early days of the state's existence. A signatory of Israel's declaration of independence, he served continuously as a minister from the country's foundation in 1948 until his death in 1970 apart from a brief spell in the late...	Merkaz Shapira Merkaz Shapira Merkaz Shapira , also Shapira Center, is a religious village in the South District of Israel. Located in the southern Shephelah between Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council...	Entrance to Merkaz Shapira
10	צומת עין צורים (Ein Tzurim Junction)		Rocks' Spring	Ein Tzurim Ein Tzurim Ein Tzurim is a religious kibbutz in southern Israel. Located south of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council, and is a member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement. In 2007 it had a population of 1,100.-Original kibbutz:...	Entrance to Ein Tzurim
11	צומת שפיר (Shaffir Junction)		Beautiful (biblical Hebrew)	Shafir Shafir Shafir is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In 2006, it had a population of 499....	Route 3613
13	צומת כפר ורבורג-אביגדור (Kfar Varburg-Avigdor Junction)		named for Felix M. Warburg Felix M. Warburg Felix Moritz Warburg was a member of the Warburg banking family of Hamburg, Germany.- Biography :He was a grandson of Moses Marcus Warburg, one of the founders of the bank, M. M. Warburg . Felix Warburg was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. He is known as a leading advocate of a Federal Reserve... Henry d%27Avigdor-Goldsmid	Kfar Warburg Kfar Warburg Kfar Warburg is a large moshav in central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi with 98 farms covering an area of 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 873.... Avigdor	Local roads
14.5	צומת טוביה (Tuvia Junction)		named for Tuvia's Well	Be'er Tuvia Be'er Tuvia Be'er Tuvia is a moshav in the Southern District of Israel near the city of Kiryat Malakhi. It is affiliated with the Be'er Tuvia Regional Council.... Kiryat Malakhi South	Yigal Hurwitz Blvd. Route 3703
15				Kiryat Malakhi Center Be'er Tuvia Industrial Complex	David Ben Gurion Boulevard The Well Street
15.5				Kiryat Malakhi North	Menachem Begin Blvd. Menachem Begin ' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...
16	צומת מלאכי (Malakhi Junction)		(Prophet) Malakhi My Angel		Highway 40 Highway 40 (Israel) Highway 40 is a north-south intercity road in Israel. At 302 km long, it is the second longest highway in Israel, after Highway 90. The highway runs from Kfar Sava in the center of Israel to the Arabah in the south, serving as a main connection between central Israel and Be'er Sheva.-Route...
18	צומת אחים (Ahim Junction)		Brothers (Zvi and Efraim Guber)	Talmei Yehiel Achva Ahva, Israel Ahva is a village in the northern Negev desert of southern Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council and had a population of 256 in 2006.The village was established in 1976 for civil servants of the regional council...	Local road
20	צומת ראם (Re'em Junction)		Rebbe Avraham Mordechai	Bnei Re'em Bnei Re'em Bnei Re'em is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Nahal Sorek Regional Council. In 2007, Bnei Re'em had a population of 1,100....	Highway 40 Highway 40 (Israel) Highway 40 is a north-south intercity road in Israel. At 302 km long, it is the second longest highway in Israel, after Highway 90. The highway runs from Kfar Sava in the center of Israel to the Arabah in the south, serving as a main connection between central Israel and Be'er Sheva.-Route...
21	צומת שערי אברהם (Shearei Avraham Junction)		Gates of Abraham	She'arei Avraham	Route 383
22	צומת רבדים (Revadim Junction)		Echelons Echelon Echelon may refer to:* A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.* Echelon formation, a military hierarchical formation, also used to describe the migratory patterns of birds...	Revadim Revadim Revadim is a kibbutz in Israel on the southern coastal plain. It is under the administration of the Yoav Regional Council and affiliated with the Hashomer Hatza'ir movement.-History:...	Entrance to Revadim
24	צומת בית חלקיה (Beit Helkiya Junction)		House of My Portion of the Lord	Beit Hilkia Beit Hilkia Beit Hilkia is an ultra-orthodox moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Gedera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Nahal Sorek Regional Council. In 2006, it had a population of 470....	Route 3933 (Entrance to Beit Helkiya)
25	צומת יד בנימין (Yad Binyamin Junction)		Benjamin's Memorial	Yad Binyamin	Entrance to Yad Binyamin
26	מחלף שורק (Sorek Interchange)		Sorek River Choice Vine		Highway 6 Highway 6 (Israel) Highway 6 , widely known as the Trans-Israel Highway or Cross-Israel Highway , is a major electronic toll highway in Israel. The highway was officially dedicated as the Yitzhak Rabin Highway , though this name is not commonly used. It started operating in the early 2000s and is being lengthened as... /Highway 7 Highway 7 (Israel) Highway 7 is a new highway in the South District of Israel from Yesodot to Gedera. It connects the Trans-Israel Highway with the coastal region. It is planned to reach Ashdod and to terminate in a junction with Highway 4...
29	צומת יסודות (Yesodot Junction)		Foundations	Yesodot Yesodot Yesodot is a religious moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Nahal Sorek Regional Council. In 2006, it had a population of 434....	Entrance to Yesodot
33	צומת חולדה (Hulda Junction)		The Perpetual Khulda Khulda was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Ramla in the Mandatory Palestine. Known as Huldre to the Crusaders, it is also mentioned in documents dating to the periods of Mamluk, Ottoman, and Mandatory rule over Palestine. During the 1948 war, the village was depopulated as part of...	Hulda Hulda, Israel Hulda is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah near the Hulda forest and the Burma Road, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 332... Mishmar David Mishmar David Mishmar David is a communal settlement in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah near Mazkeret Batya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council and had a population of 197 in 2006... Tal Shahar Tal Shahar Tal Shahar is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Gederot , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. According to the 2009 census it had a population of 1,057....	Route 411 Route 411 (Israel) Route 411 , is a regional road in the Shephelah region in Israel. It is currently 13 km long with two open sections without any direct connection between them. The western section connects Highway 42 with Route 410 near Kfar Gevirol in western Rehovot...
35	צומת נחשון (Nahshon Junction)		Pioneer (literary Hebrew) named after Operation Nachshon Operation Nachshon Operation Nachshon was an Jewish military operation during the 1948 war. Lasting from 5–20 April 1948, its objective was to break the Siege of Jerusalem by opening the Tel-Aviv - Jerusalem road blockaded by Palestinian Arabs and to supply food and weapons to the isolated Jewish community of...		Highway 44 Highway 44 (Israel) Highway 44 is a highway in central Israel. It connects Tel Aviv-Yafo to Ramla, Lod and the Shefela. It begins in Tel Aviv in the north and ends at Nachshon and Shimshon junction near Beit Shemesh in the south....
36	מחלף בקוע (Beko'a Interchange)		Splitting	Beko'a Beko'a Beko'a is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 502....	Entrance to Beko'a
38	מחלף נחשון / נווה שלום (Nahshon / Neve Shalom Interchange)		Pioneer / Oasis of Peace	Nahshon Nahshon, Israel Nahshon is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located to the north of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 412.... Neve Shalom	Local road
41	צומת חטיבה שבע (Hativa Sheva Junction)		7th (Armored) Brigade	Latrun Monastery Latrun Latrun is a strategic hilltop in the Ayalon Valley in Israel overlooking the road to Jerusalem. It is located 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla.-Etymology:... Mini Israel Theme Park Mini Israel Mini Israel is a miniature park located near Latrun, Israel in the Ayalon Valley. Opened in November 2002, the site contains miniature replicas of hundreds of buildings and landmarks in Israel...	Route 424
42	מחלף לטרון (Latrun Interchange)		The Castle (of the Knights) Latrun Latrun is a strategic hilltop in the Ayalon Valley in Israel overlooking the road to Jerusalem. It is located 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla.-Etymology:...		Highway 1 Highway 1 (Israel) Highway 1 , is the main highway connecting Tel Aviv with Jerusalem.-History:The section between Latrun and Jerusalem roughly follows an ancient path connecting Jaffa and Jerusalem... )
43				Canada Park Canada Park Canada Park is a national park stretching over 7,000 dunams, mostly in the West Bank, with a portion in the region that was a no man's land before 1967 and incorporated into Israel in 1967. It is maintained by the Jewish National Fund of Canada...	Entrance to Canada Park
45				Modi'in	HaHashmonaim Blvd.
47	צומת מבוא חורון (Mevo Horon Junction)		Horon Gateway	Mevo Horon Mevo Horon Mevo Horon is an Israeli settlement and religious moshav shitufi and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located near Latrun and Modi'in, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 1,200...	Ayalon Blvd.
48				Beit Likiya Beit Liqya Beit Liqya is a Palestinian town located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, 21 kilometers Southwest of Ramallah...	(blocked)
53	צומת בית חורון (Beit Horon Junction)		House of Horon	Modi'in	Route 443 (blocked)