Allon Road
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 Allon Road near the intersection of Routes 508 and 458, south of Migdalim | ||||||||||
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| Length | 88 km (55 mi) | |||||||||
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| South end | Kfar Adumim Junction | |||||||||
| North end | Mehola Junction | |||||||||
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| Country | Israel | |||||||||
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Allon Road is the name given by Israel to Routes 458, 508, and 578 in the West Bank, running roughly south–north along the eastern watershed of the Judaean and Samarian Hills, between Highway 1 near Kfar Adumim east of Jerusalem and Highway 90 at Mehola in the central Jordan Valley.
History
The road was the first step in implementing the Allon Plan, one of the earliest Israeli initiatives to deal with the territory west of Jordan that was occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War. The plan called for the Israeli annexation of the narrow corridor of land along the west of the Jordan River up to the eastern slopes of the Samarian mountains to assure minimal strategical depth while relinquishing the rest of the West Bank to Arab-Jordanian control.
The next step was to establish residential and agricultural settlements as well as military outposts along this strip of land to assure a minimal buffer zone that would hold up in the event of a Jordanian attack until Israeli Army reserve units could mobilize to the area. Between 1967 and 1977, the Israeli Labor Party governments created 21 settlements, mostly agricultural cooperatives in this area.
The effects of this plan can be easily seen from the fact that almost all the settlements on the Allon Road (E.g.: Alon, Rimonim, Gitit) are on the east side.
Junctions (South to North)
| District[1] | Location[2] | km | mi | Name | Destinations | Notes |
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| Route 458 | ||||||
| Judea and Samaria | Kfar Adumim | 0 | 0.0 | צומת כפר אדומים (Kfar Adumim Junction) |  Highway 1 | |
| Alon|Alon (Israeli settlement)|Alon | 3 | 1.9 | צומת ללא שם (Unnamed Junction) | Access road to Kfar Adumim Entrance to Alon | ||
| Ma'ale Mikhmas | 13 | 8.1 | צומת מכמש קטן (Small Mikhmas Junction) | Entrance road | ||
| 15 | 9.3 | צומת מכור (Makhur Junction) |  Route 457 | |||
| Rimonim | 19 | 12 | צומת רימונים (Rimonim Junction) |  Route 449 | Southern end of concurrency with Route 449 | |
| 21 | 13 | צומת רימונים קטן (Small Rimonim Junction) | Entrance to Rimonim | |||
| Kokhav HaShahar | 24 | 15 | צומת מעלה שלמה (Ma'ale Shlomo Junction) | Route 449 | Northern end of concurrency with Route 449 | |
| 25 | 16 | צומת כוכב השחר (Kokhav HaShahar Junction) | Entrance to Kokhav HaShahar | |||
| Al-Mughayyir|Al-Mughayyir, Ramallah|Al-Mughayyir | 33 | 21 | צומת אל מוע'ייר (Al-Mughayyir Junction) | Entrance to Al-Mughayyir | ||
| Malakhei HaShalom | 34 | 21 | צומת מלאכי השלום (Malakhei HaShalom Junction) | Entrance to Israeli outpost Malakhei HaShalom | ||
| Yishuv HaDa'at Keida | 36 | 22 | צומת גדעון (Gideon Junction) |  Road 5055 | ||
| Duma|Duma, Nablus|Duma | 39 | 24 | צומת דומא (Duma Junction) | Entrance to Duma | ||
| Majdal Bani Fadil | 40 | 25 | צומת אלון (Allon Junction) |  Route 505 | Western end of concurrency with Route 505 | |
| Route 508 | ||||||
| Judea and Samaria | Gitit Ma'ale Efrayim | 44.5 | 27.7 | צומת מעלה אפרים (Ma'ale Efrayim Junction) | Route 505 | Eastern end of concurrency with Route 505 |
| Gitit|Gitit (Israeli settlement)|Gitit | 46 | 29 | צומת גיתית (Gitit Junction) | Entrance to Gitit | ||
| Mekhora | 57 | 35 | צומת מכורה (Mekhora Junction) | Entrance to Mekhora | ||
| Hamra|Hamra (Israeli settlement)|Hamra | 63 | 39 | צומת חמרה (Hamara Junction) |  Highway 57 | Southern end of concurrency with Highway 57 | |
| Route 578 | ||||||
| Judea and Samaria | Hamra|Hamra (Israeli settlement)|Hamra | 64.5 | 40.1 | צומת בקעות (Beka'ot Junction) | Highway 57 | Northern end of concurrency with Highway 57 |
| Beka'ot | 68.5 | 42.6 | צומת ליד בקעות (Junction near Beka'ot) | Entrance to Beka'ot | ||
| Ro'i | 72 | 45 | צומת רועי (Ro'i Junction) | Entrance to Ro'i | ||
| Hemdat | 75 | 47 | צומת חמדת (Hemdat Junction) | Entrance to Hemdat | ||
| 76 | 47 |  Road 5788 | ||||
| Maskiot | 82 | 51 | צומת משכיות (Maskiot Junction) | Entrance to Maskiot | ||
| 83 | 52 |  Road 5799 | ||||
| Rotem|Rotem (Israeli settlement)|Rotem | 85 | 53 | צומת רותם (Rotem Junction) | Entrance to Rotem | ||
| Mehola | 88 | 55 | צומת מחולה (Mehola Junction) |  Highway 90 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ 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.