Highway 92 is a north-south highway in northeastern
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. It follows the eastern edge of the
Kinneret from
Ma'agan junction in the south at
Highway 98
The following highways are numbered 98:
International
* European route E98
China
* G98 Hainan Ring Expressway, G98 Expressway
India
* National Highway 98 (India)
Israel
*Highway 98 (Israel)
Korea, South
*Gukjido 98
New Zealand
* New Zeal ...
to
Yehudiya junction in the north at
Highway 87. It is long.
History
The southern part of the road, from
Samakh to
Ein Gev
Ein Gev ( he, עֵין גֵּב) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee near the ruins of the Greco-Roman settlement of Hippos, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In ...
, was paved immediately after the end of the
Israeli war of independence
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It is known in Israel as the War of Independence ( he, מלחמת העצמאות, ''Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut'') and ...
as part of Israel's efforts to establish
facts on the ground
Facts on the ground is a diplomatic and geopolitical term that means the situation in reality as opposed to in the abstract.
The term was popularised in the 1970s in discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to refer to Israeli settlement ...
in the demilitarized territories according to the armistice agreements between Israel and Syria and was inaugurated in June 1950.
Solel Boneh paved the road, one-third in concrete and the rest asphalt. The rest of the road was paved in stages. At the end of 1969, the road was extended from Ein Gev to
Kursi, as part of the construction of
Route 789 from Kursi to
Afik. It was already planned to pave
Highway 87 which would go up from the
Kfar Nahum junction to the Golan and Highway 92 was planned to connect to this road, in such a way that the
Kinneret is surrounded by the road. The road was inaugurated in April 1978.
Junctions & Interchanges (South to North)
Places of interest near Highway 92
* Kibbutz
HaOn
* Monument for Turkish soldiers
*
Sussita
Hippos ( grc, Ἵππος, , horse) or Sussita (Aramaic, he, סוסיתא) is an ancient city and archaeology, archaeological site located on a hill 2 km east of the Sea of Galilee, attached by a topographical saddle to the western slopes of the ...
archaeological site
* Kursi, Golan Heights, Kursi national park
* Luna-Gal beach
* Bethsaida, Bethsaida Valley and
References
See also
*List of highways in Israel
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