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Highway 4 | ||||
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כביש 4 | ||||
Hebrew: כביש נהריה - אשקלון, romanized: Kvish Nahariyya–Ashqelon Hebrew: כביש גהה, romanized: Kvish Geha Hebrew: כביש חיפה - תל אביב הישן, romanized: Kvish Haifa–Tel Aviv HaYashan | ||||
Heavy morning traffic at Bar Ilan Interchange | ||||
Route information | ||||
Part of ![]() (Ratified by Palestine but not by Israel) | ||||
Length | 205 km (127 mi) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | Erez Border Crossing with Gaza (Hevel Azzah Junction) | |||
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North end | Rosh HaNikra Border Crossing with Lebanon | |||
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Country | Israel | |||
Major cities | Ashkelon, Ashdod, Yavne, Rishon LeZion, Holon, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Ramat HaSharon, Hod HaSharon, Kfar Saba, Ra'anana, Netanya, Hadera, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Zikhron Ya'akov, Tirat Carmel, Haifa, The Kerayot, Acre, Nahariya | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Highway 4 (Hebrew: כּֽבִישׁ אַרְבַּע, Kvish Arba' ) is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon in the North to the Erez Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip in the South. The highway follows in part the route of the ancient Via Maris.
Until the 1990s and the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from most of the Gaza Strip due to the Oslo Accords, Highway 4 extended south all the way to Rafah and the Egyptian border. Since the 1990s, the part of the highway in the Gaza Strip has been renamed as Salah al-Din Road.
Although the highway is continuous, it is generally considered to be divided into five sections, each with its own nickname and characteristics such as a differing number of lanes and speed limits:
The Tel Aviv–Ashdod and Geha sections are freeways. The rest of the highway consists of multiple lanes in each direction except between Erez Crossing and Yad Mordechai, Rosh HaNikra and Nahariya, and between Tirat Carmel just south of Haifa and Fureidis, which have a single lane of traffic in each direction. While there have been multiple proposals to widen the Haifa–Fureidis section, these have so far been blocked due to opposition from nearby residents who would like the highway in the area to retain its current rural character.