Highway 3 (Israel)

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Highway 3
Hebrew: כביש 3 Arabic: طريق السريع 3
Map of the former segments of the Highway in the West Bank, Now declassified.
Route information
Part of (Ratified by Palestine but not by Israel)
Length	47 km (29 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Abba Hillel Silver Junction
Major intersections	Hodaya Junction Malakhi Junction Re'em Junction Sorek Interchange Hulda Junction Nahshon Junction Hativa Sheva Junction Latrun Interchange
East end	Mevo Horon Junction
Location
Country	Israel
Major cities	Ashkelon, Hodaya, Kiryat Malakhi, Yad Binyamin, Yesodot, Hulda, Nachshon, Latrun, Modi'in
Highway system
Roads in Israel Highways
← Highway 2 → 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.

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. 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]	km	mi	Name	Destinations	Notes
Southern	Ashkelon	0	0.0	צומת אבא הלל (Abba Hillel Junction)	Highway 4
	Nir Israel	2	1.2	צומת ניר ישראל (Nir Yisrael Junction)	Road 3500
	Hodaya	4	2.5	צומת הודיה (Hodaya Junction)	Route 232
	Negba	7	4.3	צומת נגבה (Negba Junction)	Road 3612
	Masu'ot Yitzhak	8	5.0	צומת משואות יצחק (Masu'ot Yitzhak Junction)	Local road
	Merkaz Shapira	9	5.6	צומת מרכז שפירא (Shapira Center Junction)	Entrance road	Named after Haim-Moshe Shapira
	Ein Tsurim	10	6.2	צומת עין צורים (Ein Tsurim Junction)	Entrance road
	Shafir	11	6.8	צומת שפיר (Shafir Junction)	Road 3613
	Kfar Warburg Avigdor	13	8.1	צומת כפר ורבורג-אביגדור (Kfar Warburg-Avigdor Junction)	Local roads	Named after Felix M. Warburg & Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
	Be'er Tuvia	14.5	9.0	צומת טוביה (Tuvia Junction)	Yigal Hurwitz Blvd. Road 3703
	Kiryat Malakhi	16	9.9	צומת מלאכי / קסטינה (Malakhi Junction / Qastina)	Highway 40
	Kfar Ahim	18	11	צומת אחים (Ahim Junction	Local road
Central	Bnei Re'em	20	12	צומת ראם (Re'em Junction)	Highway 40
	Yoav	21	13	צומת שערי אברהם (She'arei Avraham Junction)	Route 383
	Revadim	22	14	צומת רבדים (Revadim Junction)	Entrance road
	Beit Hilkia	24	15	צומת בית חלקיה (Beit Hilkia Junction)	Road 3933
	Yad Binyamin	25	16	צומת יד בנימין (Yad Binyamin Junction)	Entrance road
		26	16	מחלף שורק (Sorek Interchange) and railway overpass[5]	Highway 6	Named after nearby Sorek River
		26.5	16.5		Highway 7
	Yesodot	29	18	צומת יסודות (Yesodot Junction)	Entrance road
	Hulda	33	21	צומת חולדה (Hulda Junction)	Route 411
	Tal Shahar	35	22	צומת נחשון (Nachshon Junction)	Highway 44	Named after Operation Nachshon
	Beko'a	36	22	מחלף בקוע (Beko'a Interchange)	Entrance road
	Nahshon Neve Shalom	38	24	מחלף נחשון / נווה שלום (Mahshon / Neve Shalom Interchange)	Local road
	Latrun	41	25	צומת חטיבה שבע (Hativa Sheva Junction)	Route 424
Green Line
Judea and Samaria	Latrun	42	26	מחלף לטרון (Latrun Interchange)	Highway 1
	Modi'in	45	28	צומת מודיעין (Modi'in Junction)	HaHashmonaim Blvd.
	Mevo Horon	47	29	צומת מבוא חורון (Mevo Horon Junction)	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]

References

See also

• List of highways in Israel

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