Highway 5 (Israel)
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Highway 5, or the Trans-Samaria Highway (Hebrew: כביש חוצה שומרון, Kvish Chotze Shomron), is one of Israel's main motorways connecting the Mediterranean coast immediately north of Tel Aviv with Ariel and other Israeli settlements in Samaria (northern West Bank).
Highway 5 is commonly used to describe the highway from its eastern end at the Glilot Interchange until where it passes the Green Line near Elkana. From that point, the name Chotze Shomron is used to describe the section continuing east towards the Kfar Tapuach. The highway has also been dedicated as Derech Chaim (Chaim's Road) after the late Chaim Landau, a former Minister of Transportation.
Officially, Highway 5 ends at the Gitai Avisar Junction east of Barkan where it merges into Road 505 which continues east past Ariel until Pezael which is located on Route 90, the north-south road parallel to the Israeli-Jordanian border in the Jordan Valley. Construction is underway to extend Highway 5 from the Gitai Avisar Junction until the Ariel Junction by 2007.
List of interchanges, junctions, and other milestones
Route 5
- Glilot Junction - Intersecting with Highway 2 (Tel Aviv - Haifa)
- Glilot Interchange - Intersecting with Highway 20 (Ayalon Highway, Tel Aviv - Herzliya)
- Kfar Hayarok Interchange - On the border between Bnei Brak and Ramat Hasharon
- Moresha Interchange - Intersecting with Highway 4 (Kvish Geha)
- Tikva Interchange - Adjacent to the Yarkon Cemetery
- Yarkon Interchange - Intersecting with Route 40 on the border between Petah Tikva and Hod Hasharon
- Qasim Interchange - Intersecting with Highway 6 and Road 444
- Even HaEzer Interchange - Adjacent to the Rosh HaAyin Industrial Park and Kafr Qasim
- The Green Line - (Not marked out specifically)
- Nahal Kanah Interchange (though more commonly known as the Oranit Interchange or Shaar Shomron Interchange)
- Mascha Junction - Peduel is a large settlement accessible by this junction.
- Barkan Junction - Adjacent to the Barkan Industrial Park
- Giti Junction - Merge with road 505 to Ariel (city) and Jordan River Valley.
Road 505
- Gitai Avisar Junction
- Ariel Junction - The western entrance to Ariel
- Tapuach Junction - Adjacent to Kfar Tapuach
- Migdalim
- Junction with the Allon Road
- Gitit Junction
- Maaleh Efrayim
- Pezael and Route 90 (Israel).
| Transportation in Israel |
| Roads in Israel: Highway 1 | Highway 2 | Highway 4 | Highway 5 | Highway 6 | Route 60 | Route 90 | Ayalon Highway | Carmel Tunnels | Begin Expressway |
| Bus: Egged | Dan | Kavim | Metrodan Beersheba | Metropoline | Nativ Express | Superbus | Connex |
| Railways: Israel Railways |
| Light Rails and Rapid Transits: Tel Aviv Subway | Jerusalem Light Rail | Carmelit |
| Aviation Authorities and Companies: Israel Airports Authority | Ben Gurion International Airport | El Al | Arkia | Israir |
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