Route 417 (Israel–Palestine)
Route 417 | |
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כביש 417 | |
Route information | |
Length | 16 km (9.9 mi) |
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East end |
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Location | |
Country | Israel |
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Highway system | |
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Route 417 (
History
Most of the road serves as a local thoroughfare within Jerusalem and East Jerusalem. The road has been non-contiguous since the construction of the
Route
The route's name changes many times along the way. From west to east:
Yirmiyahu Street
Named after the biblical prophet,
Bar-Ilan Street
Just past the
Hativat HarEl Street
Named after the famous Harel Brigade,[2] this 0.3 km section widens into a 6-lane divided boulevard between the Sanhedria and Shmuel HaNavi neighborhoods.
Levi Eshkol Boulevard
This section, built in 1968, was named after Israel's third
Hebrew University Boulevard
This 0.6 km stretch passes Kiryat Menachem Begin, the Dan Jerusalem Hotel (formerly the Hyatt Regency) and the main entrance road to the Hebrew University's Har HaTsofim campus.
Wadi al-Joz Street
While most traffic continues straight through the new Har HaTzofim tunnels bypassing East Jerusalem's built-up areas and connecting to
al-Maqdesi Street
Continuing southward as a commercial street, this 0.4 km stretch, named after the famous 10th-century Arab geographer,
Jericho Road
Along the eastern edge of the Old City, the now named
The road then runs along the bottom of the
At ash-Shiyah Street at the edge of
As it passes Ma'ale Adumim, the route becomes a
Junctions (west to east)
This article contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which should be presented in a properly formatted junction table.(November 2021) |
km | Location | Name | Type | Meaning | Road(s) Crossed |
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↓Jerusalem Municipality↓ | |||||
Yirmiyahu Street | |||||
0 | Romema | Weizmann Blvd. Strings Bridge
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0.05 | Romema | Jaffa Road | |||
0.1 | Romema | Ha Mem Gimel St. | |||
0.2 | Romema | Aholiab St.,[4] HaTvi St. | |||
0.3 | Romema | HaRikma St.[5] | |||
0.4 | Romema | HaRikma St. | |||
0.5 | Romema | Tuval St.[6] HaTchelet St. | |||
0.6 | Romema | HaTchelet St. | |||
0.7 | Romema | Argaman St.[7] | |||
1 | Romema | Tuval St. | |||
1.1 | Romema | Shamgar St.[8] | |||
1.2 | Romema | ככר לוין (Rabbi Levin Square) |
named after Rabbi Pinhas Ya'akov HaCohen Levin |
Minhat Yitzhak St. | |
1.6 | Shikun Chabad | ככר הרב עזריאל זעליג סלונים (Rabbi Azriel Zelig Slonim Square) |
named after Rabbi Avriel Zelig Slonim |
Elkana St.[9] | |
1.7 | Bukharim
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ככר הרב אברמסקי (Rabbi Abramsky Square) |
named after Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky |
Eli HaCohen St.[10] Tsfanya St. | |
Bar-Ilan Street | |||||
1.73 | Tel Arza, Bukharim | eastbound only | Issa Bracha St. | ||
1.76 | Tel Arza, Bukharim | Yosef Ziv St., HaBucharim St. | |||
1.82 | Tel Arza, Bukharim | Adoniyahu HaCohen St. | |||
1.87 | Mahanayim, Bukharim | Hacham Shmuel Bruchim St., Ki Tov St. | |||
1.89 | Mahanayim, Bukharim | Rabeinu Gershom St. | |||
1.93 | Mahanayim, Bukharim | westbound only | HaGaon MiTurda St. | ||
1.96 | Mahanayim, Bukharim | Ohalei Yosef St., Evyatar HaCohen St.[11] | |||
2.08 | Mahanayim, Bukharim | eastbound only | Avinadav St.[12] | ||
2.2 | Mahanayim, Bukharim, Sanhedriya, Shmuel HaNavi
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ככר בית החיים (Beit HaHayyim Square) |
House of Life (name of adjacent municipal Funeral Home) |
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Hativat HarEl Street | |||||
2.4 | Sanhedriya, Shmuel HaNavi | Etz Hadar St. | |||
2.6 | Sanhedriya, Shmuel HaNavi | Eretz Hefetz St. | |||
Levi Eshkol Boulevard | |||||
2.65 | Ramat Eshkol, Ma'alot Dafna |
westbound only | Mikvei Yisrael St. | ||
2.7 | Ramat Eshkol, Ma'alot Dafna |
Mismar HaGvul St. | |||
2.8 | Green Line | ||||
2.9 | Ramat Eshkol, Ma'alot Dafna |
Ma'avar HaMitla St., Ya'akov (Carl) Netter St. | |||
3.5 | Ramat Eshkol, Givat HaMivtar |
Sheshet HaYammim St. | |||
3.6 | Givat HaMivtar, HaGiv'a HaTzarfatit
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ככר מיינרצהאגן (Meinertzhagen Square) |
named after Richard Meinertzhagen |
Station | |
Hebrew University Blvd. | |||||
4.1 | Kiryat Menachem Begin, Har HaTsofim |
Aharon Katzir St. | |||
4.2 | Wadi al-Joz, Har HaTsofim |
Shayeret HaTzofim Blvd., Yitzhak HaNadiv St. (to Har HaTsofim Tunnels) | |||
Wadi Al-Joz Street | |||||
4.3 | Wadi Al-Joz | Beni Ummayya St. | |||
4.5 | Wadi Al-Joz | Abu Bakir as-Sideeq St. | |||
4.8 | Wadi Al-Joz | Ibn Tulun St. | |||
4.9 | Wadi Al-Joz | Uthman ibn Affan St. | |||
5 | Wadi Al-Joz | Khalid ibn al-Walid St. | |||
5.1 | Wadi al-Joz | Al-Maqdesi Street St. | |||
Al-Maqdesi Street | |||||
5.2 | Wadi al-Joz | Abu Hanifa St. | |||
5.3 | Wadi al-Joz | Akhwan as-Saffa St. | |||
5.5 | Wadi al-Joz | Al-Akhtal St. | |||
5.6 | Old City Wadi al-Joz Al-Sawaneh |
Sultan Suleiman St., Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya St. (At-Tur Road) | |||
Jericho Road | |||||
6.4 | Old City | Lions' Gate Road | |||
6.5 | Old City | Ophel Road | |||
6.6 | Har HaZeitim | al-Mansuriya St. | |||
7.2 | Ma'ale ha-Zeitim Har HaZeitim |
Panorama St | |||
7.3 | Ras al-Amud Ma'ale ha-Zeitim |
Ma'ale ha-Zeitim St | |||
7.5 | Har HaZeitim | local street | |||
7.7 | Ras al-Amud Wadi Qadum |
pedestrians only | Ras al-Amud St al-Sahel al-Akhdar St | ||
7.8 | Wadi Qadum | al-Ansar St Nazalat Abu-Suwaiy St | |||
8.2 | ash-Sheikh Wadi Qadum |
Wadi Abdallah St. | |||
8.25 | ash-Sheikh Wadi Qadum |
al-Wafaa' St | |||
8.75 | ash-Sheikh Wadi Qadum |
local street | |||
9 | ash-Sheikh Wadi Qadum Abu Dis |
Ras al-Qubsa Square | ash-Sheikh St. Ras al-Qubsa St. | ||
↑Jerusalem Municipality↑ | |||||
↓NO eastbound through-traffic↓ | |||||
9 | Abu Dis Security Checkpoint (closed) | ||||
↑NO westbound through-traffic↑ | |||||
9.5 | Abu Dis | 12 local streets | |||
10.3 | Abu Dis, al-Eizariya | local street | |||
10.9 | al-Eizariya
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19 local streets | |||
12.2 | Jahalin | 5 local streets | |||
12.5 | Jahalin | local street | |||
12.6 | Jahalin | 2 local streets | |||
↑NO westbound through-traffic for yellow (Israeli) license plates↑ | |||||
13.7 | Kedar
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Kedar Road | |||
13.8 | Ma'ale Adumim | צומת מעלה אדומים (Ma'ale Adumim Junction) |
Derech Har HaBayit | ||
16 | Ma'ale Adumim | מחלף אדומים (Adumim Interchange) |
Red (Ascent) | Highway 1
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See also
- List of highways in Israel
References
- ^ Ruth Lapidot, et al., Amnon Ramon, ed. (2007). "The Historic Basin of Jerusalem - Problems and possible solutions" (PDF). Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. p. 27. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
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- ^ Joel 4:2
- ^ Exodus 31:6
- ^ Ezekiel 16:10
- ^ Genesis 4:22
- ^ Exodus 26:1 and following
- ^ Judges 3:31
- ^ 1 Samuel 1:1
- ^ 1 Samuel 1:9
- ^ 1 Kings 1:7
- ^ 1 Samuel 31:2
- ^ 1 Samuel 1:20