Allon Road is the name given by

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to Routes 458, 508, and 578 in the

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, running roughly south–north along the eastern watershed of the Judaean and

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n Hills, between Highway 1 near Kfar Adumim east of

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and Highway 90 at Mehola in the central Jordan Valley.

History

The road was the first step in implementing the

Allon Plan The Allon Plan () was a political proposition that outlined potential next steps for Israel after the Six-Day War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War. It was drafted by Israeli politician Yigal Allon following Israel's seizure of territory from Syria, Jor ...

, one of the earliest Israeli initiatives to deal with the territory west of

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that was occupied in the 1967

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. The plan called for the Israeli annexation of the narrow corridor of land along the west of the

Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan (, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn''; , ''Nəhar hayYardēn''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Sharieat'' (), is a endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead ...

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

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reserve units could mobilize to the area. Between 1967 and 1977, the

Israeli Labor Party The Israeli Labor Party (), commonly known in Israel as HaAvoda (), was a Social democracy, social democratic political party in Israel. The party was established in 1968 by a merger of Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi (political party), Rafi. Unt ...

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)

History

Junctions (South to North)

References

See also