Highway 3 (Israel)

Highway 3
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	53 km (33 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Abba Hillel Silver Junction;
	Hodaya Junction; Malakhi Junction; Re'em Junction; Sorek Interchange; Hulda Junction; Nahshon Junction; Hativa Sheva Junction; Latrun Interchange;
East end	Beit Horon Junction;
Location
Major cities	Ashkelon, Hodaya, Kiryat Malakhi, Yad Binyamin, Yesodot, Hulda, Nachshon, Latrun, Modi'in
Highway system
	Roads in Israel; Highways;

Abba Hillel Silver Junction

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[]

km	Name	Meaning	Location	Intersecting roads
0	צומת אבא הלל ( Junction)		Ashkelon, Kfar Silver	Highway 4
0.5			Kfar Silver	entrance road
2	צומת ניר ישראל (Nir Yisrael Junction)	Yisrael's Meadow	Nir Yisrael, Hodaya	Route 3500
4	צומת הודיה (Hodaya Junction)	(Prayer of) Thanksgiving	Hodaya	Route 232
7	צומת נגבה (Negba Junction)	Southward (biblical Hebrew)	Negba	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	Merkaz Shapira	entrance road
10	צומת עין צורים (Ein Tzurim Junction)	Rocks' Spring	Ein Tzurim	entrance road
11	צומת שפיר (Shaffir Junction)	Beautiful (biblical Hebrew)	Shafir	Route 3613
13	צומת כפר ורבורג-אביגדור (Kfar Varburg-Avigdor Junction)	named for Felix M. Warburg Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid	Kfar Warburg, Avigdor	local roads
14.5	צומת טוביה (Tuvia Junction)	named for Tuvia's Well	Be'er Tuvia, Kiryat Malakhi South	Yigal Hurwitz Blvd. Route 3703
15			Kiryat Malakhi Center, Be'er Tuvia Industrial Zone	Ben Gurion Blvd. The Well Street
15.5			Kiryat Malakhi North	Menachem Begin Blvd.
16	צומת קסטינה ()	(Prophet) Malakhi My Angel		Highway 40
16.7	(eastbound only)		Arugot	local road
18	צומת אחים (Ahim Junction)	Brothers (Zvi and Efraim Guber)	Kfar Ahim, Talmei Yehiel, Yinon Achva Arugot	local road
20	צומת ראם (Re'em Junction)	Rebbe Avraham Mordechai	Bnei Re'em	Highway 40
21	צומת שערי אברהם (Shearei Avraham Junction)	Gates of Abraham	Sha'arei Avraham	Route 383
22	צומת רבדים (Revadim Junction)	Echelons	Revadim	entrance road
24	צומת בית חלקיה (Beit Helkiya Junction)	House of My Portion of the Lord	Beit Hilkia	Route 3933
25	צומת יד בנימין (Yad Binyamin Junction)	Benjamin's Memorial	Yad Binyamin	entrance road
26	מחלף שורק (Sorek Interchange) and railway overpass^[3]	named for nearby Sorek River Choice Vine	Yad Binyamin, Lod–Beer Sheva Railway Line	Highway 6
27.5	צומת יסודות (yesdot Junction)	Yesdot Junction		Highway 7
29	צומת יסודות (Yesodot Junction)	Foundations	Yesodot	entrance road
30.2	railway underpass^[4]		Jerusalem–Tel Aviv Railway Line
33	צומת חולדה (Hulda Junction)	The Perpetual	Hulda, Mishmar David, Tal Shahar	Route 411
35	צומת נחשון (Nahshon Junction)	Pioneer (literary Hebrew) named after Operation Nachshon	Nachshon	Highway 44
36	מחלף בקוע (Beko'a Interchange)	Splitting	Beko'a	entrance road
38	מחלף נחשון / נווה שלום (Nahshon / Neve Shalom Interchange)	Pioneer / Oasis of Peace	Nahshon, Neve Shalom	local road
41	צומת חטיבה שבע (Hativa Sheva Junction)	7th (Armored) Brigade	Latrun Monastery, Mini Israel Theme Park Yad La-Shiryon	Route 424
41.1	Green Line
42	מחלף לטרון (Latrun Interchange)	The Castle (of the Knights) or (The House of the Good) Thief	Latrun, Emmaus Nicopolis	Highway 1
43			Canada Park	entrance road
44.8	railway underpass^[5]		Jerusalem–Tel Aviv High-Speed Rail
45			Modi'in, Nof Ayalon, Sha'alvim	HaHashmonaim Blvd.
47	צומת מבוא חורון (Mevo Horon Junction)	Horon Gateway	Mevo Horon	Ayalon Blvd.
48			Beit Likiya	(blocked)
52			Beit Sira	(blocked)
53	צומת בית חורון (Beit Horon Junction)	House of Horon	Modi'in	Route 443 (blocked)