Highway 71 | ||||
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כביש 71 | ||||
![]() Harod Valley and Route 71 in the center | ||||
Route information | ||||
Length | 31 km (19 mi) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | Unnamed Square | |||
East end | Jordan River Crossing | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Israel | |||
Major cities | Afula | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Highway 71 is an east-west highway that passes through the eastern Jezreel Valley and the Beit She'an Valley, below the north slopes of the Gilboa mountains, in northern Israel. The road follows a path parallel to the Harod Creek in the Harod Valley and to the Jezreel Valley railway. It is 35 kilometres (22 mi) long and leads from Afula in the west, via Beit She'an, to the Jordan River Border Crossing in the east. The Navot interchange located approximately 10 km southeast of Afula provides a shortcut via Route 675 through the Ta'anakh region from Highway 71 and Beit She'an to Highway 65 and central Israel.
Plans
[edit]The portion of the highway between the Navot interchange and Yissachar junction is a four-lane limited-access road, with the rest of the highway consisting of two lanes. In 2020, the National Roads Authority (Netivei Yisrael) published a design-build contract to upgrade the remainder of the highway from Yissachar to Beit She'an to a four-lane limited access road and conversion most of the main intersections to interchanges. This busy section serves local and inter-city traffic to Beit She'an, including frequent freight traffic to and from the border crossing with Jordan.
Junctions & Interchanges (West to East)
[edit]District[1] | Location[2] | km | mi | Name | Destinations | Notes |
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Northern | Afula | 0 | 0.0 | כיכר ללא שם (Unnamed Square) | Ben Gurion Blvd. | |
Merhavia (kibbutz) | 0.5 | 0.31 | צומת מרחביה (Merhavia Junction) | ![]() | ||
Merhavia (moshav) | 2 | 1.2 | צומת מושב מרחביה (Moshav Merhavia Junction) | Entrance to Merhavia (moshav) | ||
Kfar Yehezkel | 8 | 5.0 | מחלף נבות (Navot Interchange) | ![]() | ||
9 | 5.6 | מחלף גדעונה (Gidona Interchange) | ![]() ![]() | |||
Ein Harod | 11 | 6.8 | צומת יששכר (Yissachar Junction) | ![]() | ||
Tel Yosef | 12 | 7.5 | צומת תל יוסף (Tel Yosef Junction) | ![]() | ||
Beit HaShita | 16 | 9.9 | מחלף השיטה (HaShita Interchange) | ![]() ![]() | ||
Sde Nahum | 20.5 | 12.7 | צומת שדה נחום (Sde Nahum Junction) | Entrance to Sde Nahum | ||
Beit She'an | 22 | 14 | צומת מחנה גדעון (Gideon Camp Junction) | HaHashmal Street | ||
23 | 14 | כיכר ללא שם (Unnamed Square) | ![]() | |||
23.5 | 14.6 | צים סנטר (Tsim Center) | Ha'Amel Street | |||
25 | 16 | צומת שאן (She'an Junction) | ![]() | |||
Emek HaMaayanot Regional Council | 26 | 16 | צומת מעוז חיים (Maoz Haim Junction) | ![]() | ||
Neve Eitan | 27 | 17 | צומת בית קולין (Beit Colin Junction) | Western entrance to Neve Eitan | ||
27.5 | 17.1 | צומת נווה איתן (Neve Eitan Junction) | Eastern entrance to Neve Eitan | |||
Maoz Haim | 29.5 | 18.3 | צומת רופין (Rupin Junction) | ![]() | ||
Jordan River Crossing | 31 | 19 | צומת נהר הירדן (Jordan River Junction) | Crossing to ![]() | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
Places of interest on Highway 71
[edit]- Ma'ayan Harod National Park
- Beit Shturman Museum
- Trumpeldor House
- Beit She'an National Park
- Geon HaYarden Nature Reserve
- Mishkan Museum of Art
References
[edit]- ^ Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "מחוזות משרד הפנים" [Ministry of Interior districts] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Survey of Israel (October 31, 2018). "גבולות ישובים" [Locality borders] (Map). Govmap (in Hebrew). Retrieved October 31, 2018.