Highway 70 (Israel)

Highway 70 is a highway in the coastal plain and Western Galilee in northern Israel. It connects the region of Zikhron Ya'akov to the Lower Galilee and to Kiryat Ata and Shlomi near Israel's border with Lebanon.

Description of the route

Highway 70 begins in the south at Zikhron Ya'akov interchange with Highway 2. It continues via Zikhron Ya'akov and Fureidis and after going northeast through Wadi Milk the road reaches Yokneam.

After Yokneam the road turns northwest toward Yagur and Kfar Hasidim until Yagur junction, paralleling the Jezreel Valley railway, then turns north toward Kiryat Ata and Shefaram and afterward continues through the Western Galilee until Shlomi.

At the end of the 1990s, the road was converted into a divided highway between Faradis junction and Avlayim junction, and the two junctions in between, Bat Shlomo junction and Elyakim junction, were reconstructed to interchanges, to enable uninterrupted travel from Mayer Shefaya junction to Yokneam junction.

Junctions on the route

Part 1 – Zikhron Ya'akov to Yokneam

Fureidis junction near Fureidis village and Highway 4

• Highway 2 at Zikhron Ya'akov Interchange
• Highway 4 at Faradis Junction
• Meir Shfeya Interchange
• Bat Shlomo Interchange
• Ein Tut Interchange with Highway 6 (opened July 20, 2009)
• Elyakim Interchange with Route 672
• Yokneam Junction

Part 2 – Yokneam to Yagur

• HaTishbi Junction with Highway 66 and Route 722
• HaAmakim Junction (Jalmi junction)

Part 3 – Yagur to Hanita

• Yagur Junction with Highway 75 (a tender was issued in summer 2010 to convert to an interchange)
• Kfar Hasidim Junction
• Zevulun Valley Junction with Route 780
• Somekh Junction with Highway 79
• Avlayim Junction with Route 781
• Tamra
• Yavor Junction with Route 805
• Ahihud Junction with Highway 85
• Kfar Yasif Junction
• Julis Junction
• Abu Sinan
• Yas'ur (kibbutz)
• Oshrat – Beit HaEmek
• Amka
• Sheikh Danun
• Netiv HaShayara
• HaShayara Junction
• Kabri Junction with Highway 89
• Avdon–Manot
• Matzuva
• Shlomi
• Hanita Junction with Route 899

See also

• List of highways in Israel