Highway 71 (Israel)
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Highway 71 is an east-west highway that passes through the eastern Jezreel Valley and the Beit She'an Valley, below the north slopes of the Gilboa mountains, in northern Israel. The road follows a path parallel to the Harod Creek in the Harod Valley and to the Jezreel Valley railway. It is 35 kilometres (22 mi) long, and leads from Afula in the west, via Beit She'an, to the Jordan River Border Crossing in the east. The Navot interchange located approximately 10 km southeast of Afula provides a shortcut via through the Ta'anakh region from Highway 71 and Beit She'an to Highway 65 and central Israel.
Plans[]
The portion of the highway between the Navot interchange and Yissachar junction is a four-lane limited-access road, with the rest of the highway consisting of two lanes. In 2020 the National Roads Authority (Netivei Yisrael) published a design-build contract to upgrade the remainder of the highway from Yissachar to Beit She'an to a four-lane limited access road and conversion of most of the main intersections to interchanges. This busy section serves local and inter-city traffic to Beit She'an, as well as frequent freight traffic to and from the border crossing with Jordan.
Intersections[]
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Kilometers | Name | Location | Intersecting routes | |
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כביש 71 | ||||
0 | - | Afula | Highway 65 (Israel) | |
1 | - | Afula | Highway 60 (Israel), Route 7155 | |
3 | - | Merhavia | - | |
11 | Navot interchange | Kfar Yehezkel | ||
14 | Yissachar junction | Ein Harod | ||
19 | HaShita junction | Beit HaShita | ||
25 | Beit She'an industrial zone | Beit She'an | Route 7078 | |
27 | She'an junction | Beit She'an | ![]() | |
29 | Tel Ashtori junction | Neve Eitan | Route 7109 | |
32 | Maoz Hayyim junction | Maoz Hayyim | Route 6688 | |
35 | - | Jordan River border crossing | Crossing to ![]() Towards ![]() |
Places of interest on Highway 71[]
- Ma'ayan Harod National Park
- Trumpeldor House
- Beit She'an National Park
- (full name: Ein Harod Art Museum)
See also[]
- List of highways in Israel
Coordinates: 32°33′30″N 35°22′15″E / 32.55833°N 35.37083°E
- Roads in Israel