Route 443 (Israel)

Template: Infobox trunk road / Maintenance / IL -N

מחוזות (district):

• Centrally
• Tel Aviv
• Jerusalem

Highway 443 (Hebrew כביש 443, מעלה בית חורון ) Ma'ale Beit Horon or ( ascent to Beth- Horon ) is the main road that connects Modi'in to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as well as by distance between the Gush Dan and Jerusalem serves. Although this route is classified as a regional road, but it is largely a highway-like fully-fledged, four-lane road, and partly partly runs without crossing with level crossings, and is therefore not classified as a motorway. However, the western end which is connected to Highway 1, signposted as a motorway.

The road branches off from Highway 6 from 1/Landstraße at Ben- Shemen junction and east leads to the bifurcation at Schilat that serves as an entrance to Modi'in. It leads east into the mat Binyamin Regional Council in Ramallah in the West Bank, where it is to Begin expressway that leads on the new Highway 45 to Jerusalem. A spur route, Highway 436, leading to Giw'at Ze'ev and Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem.

The track was because of their geographical location in the course of history repeated scene of battles, already in the book of Joshua is mentioned and the revolt of the Maccabees against the Seleucids. In contrast to the modern highway 1, which meanders along the way between the coastal plain and the hill country of Judea to the hills and mountains, leads the central portion of highway 443 on a ridgeline along and therefore increases at regular uniform.

Connecting several of the access roads, the Palestinian villages to the highway 443, are closed since the beginning of the second intifada in September 2000. Because of several deadly attacks on Israeli vehicles on the road with petrol bombs and firearms fortifications were built along the road, where they conducted inhabited by Palestinians territories. In a decision of March 2008, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF ) for six months, have the right to limit Palestinian traffic on the road, which was contested by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel in the process. The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem criticized the closure of Highway 443 for Palestinians and also described it as illegal under international law, collective punishment. 29 December 2009, Israel's high court ruled in favor of entering the Association for Civil Rights in Israel against the order of the IDF, were banned by the Palestinian traffic on the road. The decision since October 2000 enabled the Palästinenseren first time the use of the road. On 28 May 2010 the road was reopened to Palestinian traffic.

Crossings ( from west to east )

Documents

• Ancient path ( map )
• Jewish Universe ( English )
• Tyranny in Tar ( English )
• " Israeli High Court petition on Route 443- Provides Approval for Separation and Discrimination " (20 March 2008 at the Alternative Information Center Palestine / Israel ) (English)
• Route 443: West Bank road for Israelis only ( B'Tselem Human Rights Report ) (English)

• Street in Israel
• West Bank