Highway 79 (Israel)

Highway 79 is an east-west highway in northern Israel. It crosses the Zevulun Valley and the western Lower Galilee. The road leads from Kiryat Bialik to Mashhad north of Nazareth. It is 27 km long.

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Highway 79
כביש 79
Route information
Length29 km (18 mi)
Major junctions
west endAfek Junction
Major intersections
  • Bialik Interchange
  • Gil'am Interchange
  • Somekh Interchange
  • Shfar'am Interchange
  • HaMovil Junction
  • Avihu Junction
east endMashhad Interchange
Location
CountryIsrael
Major citiesKiryat Bialik, Kiryat Ata, Shfar'am, Nazareth
Highway system
← Highway 77→ Highway 80

Development

On January 19, 2009, a tender was published to widen 8.5 km of the highway next to HaMovil Junction to 2 lanes per direction, including the construction of several interchanges, at the cost of NIS 500 million.[1]

In the future, a tram-train connecting Haifa and Nazareth is planned to be built in the highway's median along most of the highway's route.

Junctions & Interchanges (east to west)
km Name Type Meaning Location Road(s) Crossed
0 צומת עין אפק
(Afek Junction)		 Afek Spring Kiryat Bialik Highway 4
(Derech Acco)
0.2 Kiryat Bialik HaMakabim St.
0.5 eastbound only Kiryat Bialik Etzel St.
0.9 מחלף ביאליק
(Bialik Interchange)		 Named after
Hayim Nahman Bialik		 Kiryat Bialik Highway 22
(Bay Highway)
2.8 צומת אפק
(Afeq Junction)		 Named after
biblical location[2]		 Afek entrance road
5.5 מחלף גילעם
(Gil'am Interchange)		 Named after location of former
Jewish refugee camp		 Kiryat Ata Route 781
6.7 מחלף תל
(Tal Interchange)		 Named after
neighborhood of Kiryat Ata
Dew		 Kiryat Ata Toulouse-Lautrec St.
7.9 מחלף סומך
(Somekh Interchange)		 named for Rabbi ben Baba
(buried nearby)
who performed ordinations		 Kiryat Ata,
Shfar'am		 Highway 70

Highway 6

10.5 מחלף שפרעם
(Shfar'am Interchange)		 several possible etymologies Shfar'am Mahmud Darwish St.
11.3 מחלף עדי
(Adi Interchange)		 Ornament Shfar'am,
Adi		 Road 310,
local road
13 מחלף שפרעם מזרח
(Shfar'am Mizrah Interchange)		 Shfar'am East Shfar'am Road 100
15.8 מחלף ביר אל-מכסור
(Bir al-Maksur Interchange)		 Broken Well Bir al-Maksur local road
18.3 צומת יפתחאל
(Yiftah'el Junction)		 named after
archeological site
God will open		 Alon HaGalil local road,
Route 784
18.7 מחלף המוביל
(HaMovil Interchange)		 Aqueduct HaSolelim Highway 77
20 מחלף הסוללים
(HaSolelim Interchange)		 the road builders HaSolelim,
Shimshit		 local road
23.8 צומת ציפורי
(Tzippori Junction)		 ult. named after
ancient location		 Sepphoris Road 7926
24.3 צומת עילוט
(Ilut Junction)
Eliminated 2020		 ult. Lot's Well[3] Ilut Seforiya St.
25.2 צומת אביהוא
(Avihu Junction)		 my father is he Nazareth Route 700
Road 7928
(Seforiya St.)
29.2 צומת משהד
(Mashhad Junction)		 grave of a holy man
(referring to Jonah)[4]		 Mashhad,
Reineh,
Upper Nazareth		 Route 754
Road 6400

Places of interest on Highway 79
  • Tel Afek
  • Monument to the Bedouin soldier
  • Hasolelim forest nature reserve
  • Sepphoris (ancient village)

References
  1. Lior Baron (January 19, 2009). מכרז לשדרוג והרחבת כביש 79 בין צומת הסומך לצומת המוביל, בהשקעה של 500 מיליון שקל [Tender for Upgrading and Expanding Road 79 between HaSomekh and HaMovil Junctions, at Cost of NIS 500 Million]. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2009-01-20.
  2. Joshua 19:30
  3. "General information about the authority". Ilut Local Council. Retrieved 2011-12-17.(in Hebrew)
  4. "Local Council of Mashhed - Description". crwflags.com. Retrieved 2011-12-17.(in Hebrew)

See also

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