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Highway 5, or the Trans-Samaria Highway (Kvish Hotze Shomron), is one of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's main highways, connecting the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
 coast immediately north of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 with the central Sharon plain and Ariel
Ariel (city)

The city of Ariel is an Israeli settlement and city in the West Bank, in the Hebrew Bible region of Samaria near the ancient village of Timnat Serah....
 and other Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s in the northern West Bank
West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
, known under the biblical name Samaria
Samaria

Samaria, or the Shomron is a term used for the mountainous region in northern Israel roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank....
.

The name Highway 5 is commonly used to describe a section of the highway running from the road's western end at the Glilot Interchange until where it crosses the Green Line
Green Line (Israel)

The term Green Line is used to refer to the 1949 Armistice Agreements established between Israel and its neighbours after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
 near Elkana
Elkana

Elkana or Elqana is an Israeli settlement and Local council in the north-western Samaria region in the West Bank. It was founded in 1977 by a group from Gush Emunim of religious and non-religious Jews....
.






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Highway 5, or the Trans-Samaria Highway (Kvish Hotze Shomron), is one of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's main highways, connecting the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
 coast immediately north of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 with the central Sharon plain and Ariel
Ariel (city)

The city of Ariel is an Israeli settlement and city in the West Bank, in the Hebrew Bible region of Samaria near the ancient village of Timnat Serah....
 and other Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s in the northern West Bank
West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
, known under the biblical name Samaria
Samaria

Samaria, or the Shomron is a term used for the mountainous region in northern Israel roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank....
.

The name Highway 5 is commonly used to describe a section of the highway running from the road's western end at the Glilot Interchange until where it crosses the Green Line
Green Line (Israel)

The term Green Line is used to refer to the 1949 Armistice Agreements established between Israel and its neighbours after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
 near Elkana
Elkana

Elkana or Elqana is an Israeli settlement and Local council in the north-western Samaria region in the West Bank. It was founded in 1977 by a group from Gush Emunim of religious and non-religious Jews....
. In this capacity it intersects and creates a connection between four important arterial freeways in the northern Tel Aviv area - The Coastal Highway
Highway 2 (Israel)

Highway 2 is an Israeli highway located on the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea. It stretches from Tel Aviv to Haifa. The highway is also called The Coastal Highway or The New Haifa - Tel Aviv Highway ....
 (Highway 2), the Ayalon Highway
Ayalon Highway

Highway 20, more commonly Ayalon Highway is a major intracity freeway in Gush Dan, Israel. The road runs along Tel Aviv's center eastern border from north to south and connects all of the major highways leading to the city - such as Highway 4 from Ashdod and the South District , Highway 2 from Haifa and the North District ,...
 (Highway 20), Geha Highway
Highway 4 (Israel)

Highway 4 is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire Israeli Coastal Plain of the Mediterranean Sea, its route in the north runs from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon until the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier#Erez Crossing with the Gaza Strip....
 (Highway 4) and the Cross-Israel Highway
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 generally used....
 (Highway 6). Past the Green Line
Green Line (Israel)

The term Green Line is used to refer to the 1949 Armistice Agreements established between Israel and its neighbours after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
, however the name Kvish Hotze Shomron (Cross-Samaria highway) is used to describe the entire highway's length starting from Glilot and continuing east towards the Jordan Valley
Jordan Valley (Middle East)

The Jordan Valley is a geographical region that forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley. It is 120 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide, where it runs from the northern Dead Sea in the south to Lake Tiberias in the north....
. The highway's section from the Green Line to its eastern end has also been dedicated as "Derekh Haim" (Haim's Road, but also "Way of Life") after the late Haim Landau
Haim Landau

Haim Landau was an Israeli independence fighter, Knesset member and Minister in the government of Menachem Begin....
, a former Israeli Minister of Transportation.

Highway 5 with its 3-5 high-capacity lanes in each direction initially reached only the up to the Green Line, and served mainly the densely populated Gush Dan
Gush Dan

Gush Dan is a metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Center District Districts of Israel. It is located along the Israeli coastal plain....
 area. In the West Bank, the main road was still the old Road 505, which is now partially closed to Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish transportation. In the beginning of the 1990s, with the growth of Ariel and the settlements around it, arose the need for a more modern road, than the single-lane low-quality Road 505. Therefore, Highway 5 was extended some 20 km to the east of the Green Line, ending almost within sight of Ariel and serving the largest block of the Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank counting about 50000 people, as well as the massive Barkan Industrial area. To this day, this section of Highway 5 remains one of the biggest infrastructure projects that Israel has undertaken in the Judea and Samaria
Judea and Samaria

Judea and Samaria is the official Israeli term roughly corresponding to the territory usually known outside Israel as the West Bank. Jordan occupied the territory and annexed it in 1950....
 district.

On November 10, 2008, the last section from the Gitai Avisar Junction east of Barkan
Barkan

Barkan , is an Israeli settlement located in the northern West Bank, about 25 km east of Tel Aviv and 8 km west of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council....
 until Ariel was opened. From a roundabout at the Ariel junction, the highway merges into Road 505 which continues east past Ariel until Petza'el
Petza'el

Petza'el is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley , it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council....
 which is located on Route 90
Route 90 (Israel)

Route 90 is the longest road in Israel, at about 480 km, and stretches from Metula and the northern border with Lebanon, along the western side of the Sea of Galilee, through the Jordan Valley, along the western bank of the Dead Sea , through the Arabah valley, and until Eilat and the southern border with Egypt on the Red Sea....
, the north-south road parallel to the Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
-Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
 border in the Jordan Valley.

Interchanges

kmNameTypeMeaningLocationRoad(s) Crossed
0 ???? ?????? ????
(Glilot Ma'arav Interchange)
Ab Kreuz Blau
 West Glilot Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
(Highway 2
Highway 2 (Israel)

Highway 2 is an Israeli highway located on the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea. It stretches from Tel Aviv to Haifa. The highway is also called The Coastal Highway or The New Haifa - Tel Aviv Highway ....
)
1 ???? ?????? ????
(Glilot Mizrah Interchange)
Ab Kreuz Blau
 East Glilot Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
(Ayalon Highway
Ayalon Highway

Highway 20, more commonly Ayalon Highway is a major intracity freeway in Gush Dan, Israel. The road runs along Tel Aviv's center eastern border from north to south and connects all of the major highways leading to the city - such as Highway 4 from Ashdod and the South District , Highway 2 from Haifa and the North District ,...
)
3 ???? ???? ?????
(HaKfar HaYarok Interchange)
Ab As Blau
 Named after nearby
HaKfar HaYarok
Hakfar Hayarok

HaKfar HaYarok is a youth village in Israel, located at the south of Ramat HaSharon. It is one of the biggest youth villages in the country....
 Ramat HaSharon
Ramat Hasharon

File:Location_ramathasharon.pngRamat HaSharon is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon, Israel region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south and Herzliya and Glil Yam to the north....
(Route 482)
6 ???? ?????
(Morasha Interchange)
Ab Kreuz Blau
 Named after location Ramat HaSharon
Ramat Hasharon

File:Location_ramathasharon.pngRamat HaSharon is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon, Israel region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south and Herzliya and Glil Yam to the north....

(Morasha quarter)
(Highway 4
Highway 4 (Israel)

Highway 4 is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire Israeli Coastal Plain of the Mediterranean Sea, its route in the north runs from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon until the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier#Erez Crossing with the Gaza Strip....
)
8 ???? ?????
(Tikva Interchange)
Ab As Blau
 Named after location Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, Yarqon Cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 Zevulun Hammer Road
11 ???? ?????
(Yaqon Interchange)
Ab As Blau
 Named after nearby
Yarkon River		 Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
(Highway 40)
15 ???? ???
(Kessem Interchange)
Ab Kreuz Blau
 Named after nearby
Kafr Qasim
Kafr Qasim

Kfar Qasim , is a hill-top Arab citizens of Israel city located about twenty kilometers east of Tel Aviv, near the Green Line separating Israel and the West Bank, on the southern portion of the "Triangle " of Arab-Israeli towns and villages....
 Rosh HaAyin
Rosh HaAyin

Rosh HaAyin is a List of Israeli cities in the Center District of Israel of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River....
(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 generally used....
/Route 444)
17 ???? ??? ???? ????
(Rosh HaAyin Mizrah Interchange)
Ab As Blau
 Rosh HaAyin East Rosh HaAyin
Rosh HaAyin

Rosh HaAyin is a List of Israeli cities in the Center District of Israel of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River....
(Road 5050)
21 ???? ??? ??????
(Sha'ar Shomron Interchange)
Ab As Blau
 Samaria
Samaria

Samaria, or the Shomron is a term used for the mountainous region in northern Israel roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank....
 Gate		 
(Route 505)
33 ???? ??????
(Brukhin Interchange)
Ab As Blau
 Named after nearby
Brukhin		 
(Route 446)
35 ???? ????
(Barkan Interchange)
Ab As Blau
 Named after location Barkan
Barkan

Barkan , is an Israeli settlement located in the northern West Bank, about 25 km east of Tel Aviv and 8 km west of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council....
(Road 4765)
37 ???? ????
(Gitai Junction)		 Named after
Gitai Avisar		 East of Barkan
Barkan

Barkan , is an Israeli settlement located in the northern West Bank, about 25 km east of Tel Aviv and 8 km west of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council....
(Route 505)
40 ???? ?????
(Ariel Junction)		 Named after location Entrance to Ariel
Ariel (city)

The city of Ariel is an Israeli settlement and city in the West Bank, in the Hebrew Bible region of Samaria near the ancient village of Timnat Serah....
(Route 505)