Posted on 09/01/22
Jerusalem, Israel - Sept. 1, 2022 - Anyone who remembers the old original Highway #1 from Tel Aviv up the hills to Yerushaylim may find the video below hard to believe.
After years of construction and blasting, the new Ariel Sharon Highway #16 opened on August 31, 2022.
On September 1, 2022, with the first day of school for all the students who did not begin on Rosh Chodesh, with moving trucks and buses blocking city streets, we took a ride to see the new road.
It's mostly two long tunnels; watch below:
The Highway connects Highway #1 at the new Motza Interchange and Begin Boulevard (Highway 50) at the Givat Mordechai Interchange and goes under the neighborhoods of Har Nof and Yefeh Nof and the parking lots of Shaare Zedek Medical Center to connect with the city center or to the south to Gush Etzion.