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Highway 531 (Israel)
Route 531 ( he, כביש 531), is a suburban freeway in the southern Sharon region of Israel, just north of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. The highway begins at Highway 6 and terminates at the Ayalon Highway with an extension to the Coastal Highway. The highway's easternmost section was constructed in the October 16, 2014, while parts of the extension of the highway to the Ayalon Highway in Herzliya opened starting in 2016. Herzliya–Ra'anana extension Originally the highway terminated east of Ra'anana. In 2008 a PFI tender was issued to continue constructing the highway westward from Ra'anana towards Highway 20 (Ayalon Highway) near the Mediterranean coast. By doing so it will pass nearby several large cities and connect all the major north–south highways in the region: Highway 6, Highway 4 and Highway 20. The project also includes extending Highway 20 several kilometers northwards, connecting it and Route 531 to Highway 2 (the Coastal Highway) heading northbound at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rishpon
Rishpon ( he, רִשְׁפּוֹן) is a moshav in the Central District of Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Herzliya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . The moshav was established in 1936. Its original proposed name by the name committee, Rishpona ( he, רשפונה), is an artificial reconstruction of the supposed ancient name of Arsuf, based on a misreading of an Assyrian inscription.Maciej M. Münnich, ''The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East'' (2013) p. 244 citing Shlomo Izre’el, "Arsuf: The Semitic Name of Apollonia" in: ''Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations Volume I'', The Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University No. 16, Tel Aviv (1999), 72f. The misreading *''rašpūna'' for ''kašpūna'' in an inscription of Tiglath-Pileser III Tiglath-Pileser III (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , meaning "my trust belon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 4 (Israel)
Highway 4 ( he, כּֽבִישׁ אַרְבַּע, ''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 continued all the way until Rafah and the Egypt, Egyptian border. The part of the remaining highway in the Gaza Strip is called the 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmaryahu Levin
Shmaryahu Levin (russian: Шмарьяху Левин; born 1867 in Svislach, Minsk Governorate; died 9 June 1935, Haifa), was a Jewish Zionist activist. He was a member of the first elected Russian Parliament for the Constitutional Democratic Party in 1906. Biography Shmaryahu Levin served as a crown rabbi in the towns of Grodno (189697) and Ekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk) from 1898 to 1904. He was elected to the 1906 First Duma. Levin left Russia for Germany immediately after the dispersal of the First Duma, then emigrated to America. From 1908 he began advocating for the creation of the Haifa Technion. He was known as an outstanding Yiddish orator. Zionist activism Levin was a representative of the World Zionist Organization and director of the Information Department of Keren Hayesod. Awards and recognition Kfar Shmaryahu Kfar Shmaryahu ( he, כְּפַר שְׁמַרְיָהוּ, ar, كفار شمرياهو) is a local council in Israel, within the Tel Aviv Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilometre
The kilometre ( SI symbol: km; or ), spelt kilometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for ). It is now the measurement unit used for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the unit used. The abbreviations k or K (pronounced ) are commonly used to represent kilometre, but are not recommended by the BIPM. A slang term for the kilometre in the US, UK, and Canadian militaries is ''klick''. Pronunciation There are two common pronunciations for the word. # # The first pronunciation follows a pattern in English whereby metric units are pronounced with the stress on the first syllable (as in kilogram, kilojoule and kilohertz) and the pronunciation of the actual base unit does not change irrespective of the prefix (as in centimetre, millimetre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Roads Company Of Israel
Netivei Israel ( he, נתיבי ישראל, Netivei Yisra'el, ''lit.'' Routes of Israel), formerly the National Roads Company of Israel ( he, החברה הלאומית לדרכים בישראל, ), also called National Roads Authority, is a government-owned corporation, in charge of planning, construction and maintenance of most road infrastructure in Israel, including roads, bridges and interchanges. The National Road Company is the successor of the Public Works Department (PWD) of the Ministry of Transportation (PWD in he, מע"צ, ), which was founded in 1921. On September 15, 2003 it was decided to reorganize Ma'atz and reconstitute it as a new government-owned corporation that would start operation on January 1, 2004. Since becoming the National Roads Company, the company usually no longer directly constructs new roads but rather plans then issues tenders for and manages new roads' construction by companies in the private sector. Beginning in 2010, the company has also been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coastal Railway Line, Israel
The Coastal railway line ( he, מסילת החוף, mesilat ha-ḥof) is a mainline railway in Israel, which begins just south of the Lebanon-Israel border on the Mediterranean coast, near the town of Nahariya in Northern Israel and stretches almost the entire Mediterranean coast of the country, to just north of the border with the Gaza Strip in the south. History The northern part of the coastal line from Acre (Akko) to Remez Junction (located south of today's Caesarea-Pardes Hanna Railway Station) was built by the British during the 1920s and operated by Palestine Railways. In 1941–42 engineers of the South African Army and New Zealand Army extended the line north to Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon, through railway tunnels at Rosh HaNikra grottoes. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the tunnel linking the line to Lebanon was blocked; it was subsequently stripped of its track, backfilled in its Lebanese side, and now forms a part of Rosh HaNikra national park where it hosts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ra'anana West Railway Station
Ra'anana West railway station is an Israel Railways passenger station in the median of Highway 531, between the cities of Ra'anana and Herzliya, as part of the Sharon Railway Sharon Railway ( he, מסילת השרון, mesilat ha-šaron) is a 12 km double-track railroad in the Sharon plain area of Israel, located in the median of Highway 531. It serves as a connection between the Coastal Railway and the Eastern Railw .... The addition of this station and its sister station Ra'anana South, is intended reduce travel time for Ra'anana residents to Tel-Aviv to approximately 11 minutes. The station was scheduled to open on 1 July 2018 but was delayed till 3 July. Location The station building is located at ground level, west of Route 541 (Jerusalem Avenue) and north of Highway 531, and is accessible only from the Ra'anana side of the highway. The station building is of the shape of a book lying on its side. Its floor area is 600m², and is connected through a 50m footbridge to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Route 431 (Israel)
Highway 431 ( he, כביש 431), is a suburban freeway in the south of the Gush Dan, Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area in Israel. The freeway connects the Ayalon Highway in the west with highway 1 (Israel), Highway 1 in the east. It then continues east into Modi'in as a local road. The freeway has six lanes (three in each direction) over a total length of 21 km. There is also a short Collector/distributor road, Collector/Distributor system between Rishon Darom and Nes Ziona Interchanges. There are 12 interchanges along its length, 5 of them freeway to freeway interchanges. There are also 54 km of service roads, including exits and entrance ramps. The design of the freeway includes a right of way for a double track railway in its median between Ein HaKore and Modi'in. Railway sections are currently operational between Be'er Yaakov and HaRishonim Interchange, and between Anava Interchange and Modi'in; construction of the Rishon LeZion–Modi'in railway began in 2019. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
