The HaSharon Junction (), commonly known as Beit Lid Junction (), is a key
road junction
A junction is where two or more roads meet.
History
Roads are a means of transport, historically linking locations such as towns, forts and geographic features such as river fords. Where roads met outside of an existing settlement, these junct ...
in the
Sharon
Sharon ( 'plain'), also spelled Saron, is a given name as well as a Hebrew name.
In Anglosphere, English-speaking areas, Sharon is now predominantly a feminine given name, but historically it was also used as a masculine given name. In Israel, ...
region of Israel. It intersects
Highway 4 and
Highway 57. The junction serves as a large transportation hub for dozens of
Egged and
Kavim buses.
On the southwest corner of the junction is
Ashmoret Prison, a civilian jail.
The junction was the scene of the
Beit Lid suicide bombing, a 1995 attack by
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (, ''Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn''), commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist paramilitary organization formed in 1981.
PIJ formed as an offsh ...
.
It is planned that in the future, a large interchange will replace the current intersection. It will be located slightly north of the existing junction, along a new alignment of Highway 57, which will be shifted to the north.
Buses
The following buses stop at the Beit Lid Junction. The junction itself does not have routes using it as a starting or ending station.
Egged
Nativ Express
Road junctions in Israel
Geography of Central District (Israel)
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