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Highway 2 (Israel)
Highway 2 (, ''Kvish 2'') is a highway located on the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea in Israel. It begins as a major arterial road within Tel Aviv, becoming a freeway as it exits the city northward, continuing to Haifa. North of Tel Aviv, the highway is also called The Coastal Highway (, ''Kvish HaHof''). Highway 2 is one of the busiest highways in the country, and drivers experience frequent traffic congestion between Hadera and Tel Aviv during rush hours. The northern sections are also congested at times, especially during weekends and holidays, when many Israelis travel north for vacation. History The first section of the highway between Tel Aviv and Netanya was built in the early 1950s as a two-lane road with at-grade intersections. The following section was built later that decade, extending the highway north to Olga Junction in Hadera. This section was also built as a two-lane road. It was widened to four lanes between Tel Aviv and Hadera in 1965. However, grade sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Coastal Plain
The Israeli coastal plain () is the State of Israel, Israeli segment of the Levantine coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, extending north to south. It is a geographical region defined Geomorphology, morphologically by the sea, in terms of topography and soil, and also in its climate, flora and fauna. It is narrow in the north and broadens considerably towards the south, and is continuous, except the short section where Mount Carmel reaches almost all the way to the sea. The Coastal Plain is bordered to the east by – north to south – the topographically higher regions of the Galilee, the low and flat Jezreel Valley, the Carmel range, the mountains of Samaria, the hill country of Judea known as the Shephelah, and the Negev Mountains in the south. To the north it is separated from the coastal plain of Lebanon by the cliffs of Rosh HaNikra grottoes, Rosh HaNikra, which jut out into the sea from the Galilee mountains, but to the south it continues into the Egyptian Sinai Penins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 20 (Israel)
Highway 20, more commonly known as the Ayalon Highway, or simply Ayalon (, pronounced: ''Netivei Ayalon'', lit. "Ayalon lanes"), is a major inter city freeway in Gush Dan, Israel. The road runs along the eastern border of central Tel Aviv from north to south and connects all of the major highways leading to the city—such as Highway 4 from Ashdod and the Southern regions, Highway 2 from Haifa and the Northern regions, Highway 5 from the East, and Highway 1 from Jerusalem and the Southeast. The Ayalon Highway is heavily used; on an average day, almost 600,000 vehicles enter the freeway. It consists of a multi-lane highway with a multi-track railway located between the opposite travel lanes. Some of the highway's route is along the Ayalon River, hence its name. It is made of primarily asphalt. Background Before the construction of the Ayalon Highway, all the major inter-city highways leading to Tel Aviv terminated in the outskirts of the city. This created major traffi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramat Aviv
Ramat Aviv Alef or Ramat Aviv HaYeruka, and originally plainly Ramat Aviv (, ''lit.'' Spring Heights), is a neighborhood in northwest Tel Aviv, Israel. History Ramat Aviv was founded in 1950s following the great influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe. Golda Meir lived in the neighborhood from 1959 to 1978. In January 2011 it was published that remains of a building, believed to be 7,800–8,400 years old, were discovered in an archaeological excavation carried out in 8 Fichman Street in Ramat Aviv, by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The findings attest to permanent habitation on the northern bank of the Yarkon River. |
Yarkon River
The Yarkon River, also Yarqon River or Jarkon River (, ''Nahal HaYarkon''; , ''Nahr al-Auja''), is a river in central Israel. The source of the Yarkon ("Greenish" in Hebrew) is at Tel Afek (Antipatris), north of Petah Tikva. It flows west through Gush Dan and Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park into the Mediterranean Sea. Its Arabic name, ''al-Auja'', means "the meandering". The Yarkon is the largest coastal river in Israel, at 27.5 km in length. History Iron Age The Yarkon/Auja was the northern boundary of the territory of the Philistines. During the time of the Assyrian rule over the country, a fortress was built in a site known today as Tell Qudadi, on the northern bank of the river, next to its estuary. Early Muslim period On 27 April 750, the Abbasid general Abd Allah ibn Ali, uncle of Caliph al-Saffah (), marched to Antipatris ('Abu Futrus'). There, he summoned around eighty members of the Umayyad dynasty, whom the Abbasids had toppled earlier that year, with promises of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaplan Street
Kaplan Street is a major thoroughfare in central Tel Aviv, Israel, running from the Azrieli Center Interchange (road), interchange on its eastern edge, to Ibn Gabirol Street on its western edge. History Named after Eliezer Kaplan, an important Israeli politician, the street connects the city center to the Highway 20 (Israel), Ayalon Highway, and is one of the busiest streets in the city. Right next to it, lies the old Templers (religious believers), Templer neighborhood of Sarona, Palestine, Sarona, which has undergone a major renovation programme, in addition to the street itself, which has been widened in recent years. The Israeli Intelligence Community had offices on this street. Starting January 14, 2023, Kaplan Street became the site of 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests, weekly protests of Israel's proposed (and partially enacted) judicial overhaul. File:Kaplan street.JPG File:Templar buildings in the Sharona colony on Kaplan Street.jpg, Grounds of the Templers (rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaplan Interchange
Kaplan Interchange () is an intersection between Kaplan Street and Begin Road in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. According to data from the Transport Ministry, the intersection averages more than 100,000 vehicles passing through each day. The intersection is adjacent to major office areas, such as HaKirya and Sarona, and is a block away from Highway 2. History Early modifications The location of the Kaplan Interchange was first mentioned in 1964. The interchange was a T-junction at the time, and parts of Kaplan Street did not yet exist. Construction of the extension began in 1966 with two steel bridges built over the Ayalon River. In 1968, Kaplan Street underwent widening to two lanes each direction. In 1971, the Minister of Transportation Shimon Peres proposing a plan for grade separation in the intersection, and a budget was later approved but was left unimplemented. In 1981, Petah Tikva Road (now Begin Road) also underwent widening to accommodate for public transportation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatikva Quarter
Hatikva Quarter (, ''Shkhunat Hatikva'') is a working class Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv, neighbourhood in southeastern Tel Aviv, Israel. History The quarter was founded in 1935, named for "Mount Hope, Jaffa, Mount Hope" ("Har HaTikva" in Hebrew), a farm built in 1853 by Protestant Prussia, Prussian and United States, American Protestants and abandoned. Johann Steinbeck was the grandfather of John Steinbeck and abandoned the colony in 1858 after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law. It was soon repopulated as a working class Yemenite Jews, Temani neighborhood. The neighborhood was the site of the on 8 December, 1947, one of the first battles of the 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, when it was attacked by Hasan Salama's forces. It became part of the Tel Aviv municipal area after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. On 19th January 1991 during the Gulf War, First Gulf War a shelter just in front of Beit Dani was directly hit by an Ira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havatzelet HaSharon
Havatzelet HaSharon () is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the Mediterranean coast in the Sharon plain just north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History and etymology The moshav was founded in 1935 by Jewish immigrants from Poland, and was named after Lillian Freiman, the wife of Aharon (Archibald Jacob, "Archie") Freiman (for whom the adjacent moshav Bitan Aharon is named), a leader of the World Zionist Organization in Canada and an advisor to Yehoshua Hankin. The two were instrumental in raising the funds to purchase Emek Hefer (the Hefer valley) in the 1920s and to make it available for Jewish settlement."Lillian Freiman - Jewish First Lady of the Land." Canadian Jewish News oronto8 September 2010: B36-B38 ''Havatzelet HaSharon'' is a flower mentioned in the Hebrew bible that is translated in the English bible as the Rose of Sharon. ("I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys." –Song of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zikhron Ya'akov
Zikhron Ya'akov () often shortened to just Zikhron, is a local council (Israel), town in northern Israel, south of the city of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Mount Carmel, Carmel mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, near the coastal highway (Highway 2 (Israel), Highway 2). It was one of the first Moshava, Moshavot of First Aliyah, Halutzim in the country, founded in 1882 by Romanian Jews, who in 1883 received support from Edmond James de Rothschild, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and renamed their town in honor of his father, James Mayer de Rothschild ("James" being derived from the Hebrew name Ya'akov, Jacob). In it had a population of . History Zikhron Ya'akov was founded in December 1882 when 100 Jewish pioneers from Romania, members of the Hovevei Zion, Hibbat Zion movement, purchased two plots of land 5 km apart: 6000 dunam in Zammarin and 500 dunam in Tantura. The land was acquired for 46000 francs from F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 6 (Israel)
Highway 6 (, ''Kvish Shesh''), also known as the Trans-Israel Highway or Cross-Israel Highway (, ''Kvish Ḥotzeh Yisra'el''), is a major electronic toll highway in Israel. Highway 6 is the first Israeli Build-Operate-Transfer road constructed, carried out mainly by the private sector in return for a concession to collect tolls on the highway for a given number of years. It is also one of the largest infrastructure projects undertaken in Israel. History The highway is officially dedicated the Yitzhak Rabin Highway (, ''Kvish Yitzḥak Rabin''), though this name is not commonly used. It began operating in 2002 and continues to be lengthened as construction proceeds on newer sections. The southern terminus is at Shoket Interchange, opened in November 2016. The northern terminus is the Tel Kashish Interchange, opened on November 14, 2018, where the highway now merges into Highway 70 heading northwest. Another northern extension to Somech Interchange opened in 2019. Goals The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Controlled-access Highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway, and expressway. Other similar terms include ''wikt:throughway, throughway'' or ''thruway'' and ''parkway''. Some of these may be limited-access highways, although this term can also refer to a class of highways with somewhat less isolation from other traffic. In countries following the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, Vienna convention, the motorway qualification implies that walking and parking are forbidden. A fully controlled-access highway provides an unhindered flow of traffic, with no traffic signals, Intersection (road), intersections or frontage, property access. They are free of any at-grade intersection, at-grade crossings with other roads, railways, or pedestrian paths, which are instead carried by overpasses and underpasses. Entrances and exits to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 4 (Israel)
Highway 4 (, ''Kvish Arba' '') is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire Israeli Coastal Plain, coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, from the Rosh HaNikra Crossing, Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon in the Northern District (Israel), North to the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier#Erez Crossing, Erez Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip in the South. The highway follows in part the route of the ancient Via Maris. Until the 1990s and the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from most of the Gaza Strip due to the Oslo Accords, Highway 4 extended south all the way to Rafah and the Egypt, Egyptian border. Since the 1990s, the part of the highway in the Gaza Strip has been renamed as Salah al-Din Road. Although the highway is continuous, it is generally considered to be divided into five sections, each with its own nickname and characteristics such as a differing number of lanes and speed limits: *Northern Coastal Highway (Rosh Hanikra–Haifa). This section passes throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
