Highway 92 is a north-south highway in northeastern

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. It follows the eastern edge of the Kinneret from

Ma'agan Ma'agan () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1949 by immigrants ...

junction in the south at Highway 98 to Yehudiya junction in the north at Highway 87. It is long.

History

The southern part of the road, from Samakh to

Ein Gev Ein Gev () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee near the ruins of the Greco-Roman settlement of Hippos, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In its population was . ...

, was paved immediately after the end of the

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as part of Israel's efforts to establish

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in the demilitarized territories according to the armistice agreements between Israel and Syria and was inaugurated in June 1950.

Solel Boneh Solel Boneh (, lit. ''Paving and Building'') is the oldest, and one of the largest, construction and civil engineering companies in Israel. History During British rule (1921–1948) Solel Boneh was founded in 1921 in British-ruled Palestine, ...

paved the road, one-third in concrete and the rest asphalt. The rest of the road was paved in stages. At the end of 1969, the road was extended from Ein Gev to Kursi, as part of the construction of Route 789 from Kursi to

Afik Afik () is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the Golan Heights. It was established in 1972 close to the abandoned Syrian village of Fiq following Israel's capture and occupation of the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. I ...

. It was already planned to pave Highway 87 which would go up from the Kfar Nahum junction to the Golan and Highway 92 was planned to connect to this road, in such a way that the Kinneret is surrounded by the road. The road was inaugurated in April 1978.

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Places of interest near Highway 92

* Kibbutz

HaOn HaOn () is a kibbutz on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. Located at the foot of the Golan Heights about a twenty-minute drive from the city of Tiberias, it is part of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. HaOn formerly operated as a ...

* Monument for Turkish soldiers *

Sussita Hippos () or Sussita (Aramaic, ) is an ancient city and archaeological site located on a hill 2 km east of the Sea of Galilee, attached by a topographical saddle to the western slopes of the Golan Heights. Hippos was a Hellenistic city in t ...

archaeological site * Kursi national park * Luna-Gal beach *

Bethsaida Bethsaida ( ; from ; from Aramaic and , , from the Hebrew root ; ), also known as Julias or Julia (), is a place mentioned in the New Testament. Julias lay in an administrative district known as Gaulonitis, in modern-day Golan Heights. Histor ...

, Bethsaida Valley and

History

Junctions & Interchanges (South to North)

Places of interest near Highway 92

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