Highway 3 (Israel)

Highway 3
Major junctions
From:	Beit Horon junction near Modi'in
To:	Ashkelon
Highway system
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Highway 3 is a highway in Israel. It begins at Beit Horon junction with Highway 443 near Modi'in, it passes through Kiryat Malakhi, and it ends a junction with Highway 4 on the outskirts of Ashkelon.

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.

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. 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.^{[citation needed]}

Junctions and Interchanges

km	Name	Type	Meaning	Location	Intersecting roads
0	צומת אבא הלל סילבר (Abba Hillel Silver Junction)			Ashkelon Kfar Silver	Highway 4
0.5				entrance to Kfar Silver
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 to Merkaz Shapira
10	צומת עין צורים (Ein Tzurim Junction)		Rocks' Spring	Ein Tzurim	Entrance to Ein Tzurim
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 Complex	David Ben Gurion Boulevard The Well Street
15.5				Kiryat Malakhi North	Menachem Begin Blvd.
16	צומת מלאכי (Malakhi Junction)		(Prophet) Malakhi My Angel		Highway 40
18	צומת אחים (Ahim Junction)		Brothers (Zvi and Efraim Guber)	Talmei Yehiel Achva	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	She'arei Avraham	Route 383
22	צומת רבדים (Revadim Junction)		Echelons	Revadim	Entrance to Revadim
24	צומת בית חלקיה (Beit Helkiya Junction)		House of My Portion of the Lord	Beit Hilkia	Route 3933 (Entrance to Beit Helkiya)
25	צומת יד בנימין (Yad Binyamin Junction)		Benjamin's Memorial	Yad Binyamin	Entrance to Yad Binyamin
26	מחלף שורק (Sorek Interchange)		Sorek River Choice Vine		Highway 6/Highway 7
29	צומת יסודות (Yesodot Junction)		Foundations	Yesodot	Entrance to Yesodot
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		Highway 44
36	מחלף בקוע (Beko'a Interchange)		Splitting	Beko'a	Entrance to Beko'a
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	Route 424
42	מחלף לטרון (Latrun Interchange)		The Castle (of the Knights)		Highway 1)
43				Canada Park	Entrance to Canada Park
45				Modi'in	HaHashmonaim Blvd.
47	צומת מבוא חורון (Mevo Horon Junction)		Horon Gateway	Mevo Horon	Ayalon Blvd.
48				Beit Likiya	(blocked)
53	צומת בית חורון (Beit Horon Junction)		House of Horon	Modi'in	Route 443 (blocked)

See also

• List of highways in Israel