Highway 90 (Israel)

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מחוזות (district):

  • North

The Israeli- Palestinian road 90 (Hebrew כביש 90, dt: Highway 90) is a continuous paved route connecting the Red Sea along the Dead Sea Eilat connects the city over the Jordan Valley to the far north of Israel.

Importance

For Israel, which is about 480 km long highway 90 directly forms the north-south axis of the country. In the area of the Jordan they possessed during the occupation of the West Bank, a special military importance, because it allows border security to the neighboring Kingdom of Jordan could be guaranteed. From the territory invaded Palestinian armed combatants, the bombings and acts of sabotage perpetrated. In the Jordan Valley of the West Bank Israel has declared 400 square kilometers a closed military zone. Among them include areas for military training of the IDF, minefields and securing surfaces with the use of firearms.

In the Jordan Valley between the Dead Sea and northern Israel, it forms one of the main access routes for all settlements in the eastern part of the Judean hill country, for systems of politically controversial water extraction and for the farms in the Jordan Valley. The agricultural use is an important part of Israeli food and goods exports, but is also important for the Palestinian economy. In the Jordan Valley of the West Bank area live about 53,000 Palestinians and some Bedouin communities.

In addition, the checkpoints of the Israeli army came in for criticism from both sides. It is thus called for an easing of the regional and through traffic, as you can thus hopes to facilitate the regional economy and promote tourism.

Since May 2005 it is allowed Palestinians with proven in identity document residence rights in the Jordan Valley again to use the highway 90. Some people with land and property ownership is the right to use their property only with special permits and however the night in the area is forbidden them. In passing the checkpoints there in peak hours waiting intervals of 30 to 90 minutes. For non- Israeli workers in the catchment area of Highway 90 special permits are required. These are valid for a limited period and subject to security restrictions. Since 1967, five military installations and settlements in the Jordan Valley for more than 20 were built on both sides of Highway 90.

Important towns on the road 90

From north to south:

Course

The Highway 90 leads in southern Israel from the border to Egypt a few kilometers along the Red Sea to Eilat. From there it goes north through the Arava Valley on the edge of the desert region of the Negev, where along their route some prehistoric and ancient sites as well as the Jotvata Reserve lie. In Neve Zohar, where the road branches off towards Arad 31, the first time they touched the immediate environment of the Dead Sea, the west bank it now follows parallel. North of En Gedi she passed a checkpoint, after which the road continues the Dead Sea follows. In this area lies west the Judean highlands and the northern end of the Dead Sea, the archaeological site of Qumran. The section along the Dead Sea is called the Dead Sea Highway. A few kilometers north of the Dead Sea is to the west, the direction from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

In a wide arc to the east, the Highway 90 leads to Jericho around. On this route the road branches off to the border crossing Allenby Bridge to Jordan. Next up in the Jordan Valley, the highway passes 90 smaller agricultural settlements. In Yafit there is a branch to the nearby Jordan Valley Memorial, commemorating soldiers of the Israeli army, who died in her service in the Jordan Valley since 1967. Further north, it crosses the highway 57 coming from Nablus from the Judean mountains and down into a closed border crossing ( Damiya Bridge ) at the Jordan leads. After this intersection the road 90 performs very close approach to the strongly meandering course of Jordan and is partially protected by special Grenzbauten. Finally, she leaves at a checkpoint north of meholah the West Bank.

At the height of Beth Shean the highway 71 coming from Afula checked, the northern border crossing leads east to Jordan. Finally, the Highway 90 reaches the Sea of ​​Galilee and bends to the west, while the Highway 92 runs around the lake in an easterly direction. The Highway 90 runs along its western shore to Tiberias, where the approach leading from Haifa and Nazareth Highway 77 opens. Next, following the lake shore in a northeasterly direction it crosses a low level at Migdal and leaves the territory at a fork in the road where the road branches off to the east 87 to the Golan Heights. From this point on, the route extends back north, past a west -directed branch of the highway 85 to Acre, until they reached the junction of the 91 road to Quneitra and Damascus, which was originally of great military importance. Continue north at the foot of belonging to Israel slopes of wooded mountain land in the Jabal Amel reached the street in the small town of Kiryat Shmona Chulaebene. After this village branches off to the east from the Highway 99, on which one can reach the Hermon massif with the only winter sports area of Israel. With their last northern section they now reached the heavily fortified border town of Metulla, where at the border crossing subsequent National Road 6 leads to Lebanon.

With their entire course of the Highway 90 follows the Jordan Rift Valley, the northern part of the tectonic structure of the large African Great grave breach.

Selected attractions

  • Eilat
  • Chai Bar Jotvata
  • Timna
  • Mineral springs of En Boqeq
  • Massada
  • Dead Sea
  • Oasis of Ein Gedi
  • Qumran caves in the area
  • Monastery in Jericho ( ARIHA )
  • Jordan Valley Memorial
  • Sea ​​of ​​Galilee
  • "Safari" monument in Metulla
Metula Districts of Israel Northern District (Israel) Jordan River Assassination Yotvata Hai-Bar Nature Reserve Arad (Israel) Magdala Hula Valley Jordan Valley (Middle East) Timna Valley
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