Route 531 is a suburban freeway in the southern Sharon region of Israel

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, just north of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.

Herzliya–Ra'anana extension

While the highway begins at 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...

 and currently terminates in Kfar Sava, in 2008 a PFI

Private Finance Initiative

The private finance initiative is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital...

 tender was issued to continue constructing the highway towards the Mediterranean coast. By doing so it will pass nearby several large cities and provide an important connection between all the major north-south highways in the region: Highway 6, 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...

, Highway 20 (the Ayalon Highway), and 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 ....

 (the Coastal Highway). The project also includes constructing a dual-track railway and several passenger stations in the median of the highway along nearly the entire length of the road (using a design similar to the recently-completed Route 431

Route 431 (Israel)

Route 431 , is a suburban freeway in the south of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area in Israel. The freeway connects the Ayalon Highway in the west with Highway 1 in the east. It then continues east into Modi'in as a local road....

 suburban freeway).

Shapir Engineering won the tender to extend the road and railway, but due to financial disagreements and complications caused by the worldwide financial crisis, the government canceled the PFI tender in the summer of 2010. Instead, the project will be funded directly by the treasury and managed by the National Roads Company

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....

 and be split off to several sections, each of which will be tendered separately at an estimated total cost of NIS 4 billion (equivalent to slightly over US$1 billion), a move which will postpone completion by three years, to late 2015 at the earliest.

Interchanges & Junctions

km Kilometre The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second...	Name	Type	Meaning	Location	Road(s) Crossed
0	Kfar Malal Junction צומת מל"ל		Named after location	Kfar Sava Kfar Malal Kfar Malal Kfar Malal is an agricultural moshav in the Sharon region in central Israel. Originally established as Ein Hai in 1916, it was later named after Rabbi Moshe Leib Lilienblum , whose acronym in Hebrew is MLL...	Route 402
0.7	Sokolov Interchange מחלף סוקולוב		Named after location	Kfar Sava	Sokolov Nahum Sokolow Nahum Sokolow was a Zionist leader, author, translator, and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism....  St.
1.8	Tel Hai Interchange מחלף תל חי		Named after location	Kfar Sava Hod HaSharon Hod HaSharon Hod HaSharon is a city in the Center District of Israel.Officially declared a city in 1990, Hod HaSharon was created from the union in 1964 of four neighboring villages: Magdiel, Ramatayim, Hadar, and Ramat Hadar...	Tel Hai Tel Hai Tel Hai is the modern name of a settlement in northern Israel, the site of an early battle in the Arab–Israeli conflict, and of a noted monument, tourist attraction, and a college...  St., Shazar Zalman Shazar Zalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...  St.
3.2	Elishema Interchange מחלף אלישמע		Named after location (Elishema Elishema Elishama is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Hod HaSharon and Kfar Sava, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 938.... )	Kfar Sava	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...
5.8	Jaljulia Junction צומת ג'לג'וליה		Named after location	Jaljulia Jaljulia Jaljulia , officially also spelled Jaljulye, is an Arab town in Israel near Kfar Sava. In 2011, it had a population of 9,000.- History :... Hagor Hagor Hagor is a moshav in the Center District of Israel, located between Rosh HaAyin and Jaljulia. It is under the jurisdiction of the Drom HaSharon Regional Council. Hagor was founded in 1949.-Education:...	Route 444
6.2	Horshim Junction צומת כניסה לחורשים		Named after location		Route 5233
7.2	Horshim Interchange מחלף חורשים		Named after location	Horshim	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...