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Highway 79 (Israel)
Highway 79 is an east-west highway in northern Israel. It crosses the Zevulun Valley and the western Lower Galilee. The road leads from Kiryat Bialik to Mashhad north of Nazareth. It is 27 km long. Development On January 19, 2009, a tender was published to widen 8.5 km of the highway next to HaMovil Junction to 2 lanes per direction, including the construction of several interchanges, at the cost of Israeli New Sheqel, NIS 500 million. In the future, a tram-train connecting Haifa and Nazareth is planned to be built in the highway's median along most of the highway's route. Junctions & Interchanges (east to west) Places of interest on Highway 79 * Tel Afek * Monument to the Bedouin soldier * Hasolelim forest nature reserve * Sepphoris (ancient village) References See also *List of highways in Israel *Zevulun Valley *Lower Galilee {{coord, 32, 47, 14, N, 35, 12, 05, E, scale:300000, display=title Roads in Israel, 79 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiryat Bialik
Kiryat Bialik (, also Qiryat Bialik) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. The city was established on July 18, 1934, during the Fifth Aliyah. It is one of the five Krayot suburbs to the north of Haifa. In it had a population of . The city was named after the poet Hayim Nahman Bialik. History In 1924, Ephraim and Sabina Katz, who had Romanian Jews in Israel, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from the Kingdom of Romania, were the first Jews in modern times to settle in the Zevulun Valley along the Haifa Bay. Their farm was destroyed in the 1929 Palestine riots. The one house that survived the riots, Beit Katz, was bequeathed to Kiryat Bialik in 1959 and designated for public use. The town of Kiryat Bialik was founded in July 1934 by a group of German Jewish immigrants who had received a plot of land from the Jewish National Fund. The residents were mainly free professionals, doctors, engineers and lawyers who lived in private homes with gardens. During World War II, Kiryat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
