title: Highway 79 (Israel)
text: # 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 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)
  
  | km | Name | Meaning | Location | Road(s) Crossed |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 0 | צומת עין אפק (Afek Junction) | Afek Spring | Kiryat Bialik | Highway 4 (Derech Acco) |
  | 0.2 | | | Kiryat Bialik | HaMakabim St. |
  | 0.5 | eastbound only | | Kiryat Bialik | Etzel St. |
  | 0.9 | מחלף ביאליק (Bialik Interchange) | Named after Hayim Nahman Bialik | Kiryat Bialik | Highway 22 (Bay Highway) |
  | 2.8 | צומת אפק (Afeq Junction) | Named after biblical location | Afek | entrance road |
  | 5.5 | מחלף גילעם (Gil'am Interchange) | Named after location of former Jewish refugee camp | Kiryat Ata | Route 781 |
  | 6.7 | מחלף תל (Tal Interchange) | Named after neighborhood of Kiryat Ata Dew | Kiryat Ata | Toulouse-Lautrec St. |
  | 7.9 | מחלף סומך (Somekh Interchange) | named for Rabbi ben Baba (buried nearby) who performed ordinations | Kiryat Ata, Shfar'am | Highway 70 Highway 6 |
  | 10.5 | מחלף שפרעם (Shfar'am Interchange) | several possible etymologies | Shfar'am | Mahmud Darwish St. |
  | 11.3 | מחלף עדי (Adi Interchange) | Ornament | Shfar'am, Adi | Road 310, local road |
  | 13 | מחלף שפרעם מזרח (Shfar'am Mizrah Interchange) | Shfar'am East | Shfar'am | Road 100 |
  | 15.8 | מחלף ביר אל-מכסור (Bir al-Maksur Interchange) | Broken Well | Bir al-Maksur | local road |
  | 18.3 | צומת יפתחאל (Yiftah'el Junction) | named after archeological site God will open | Alon HaGalil | local road, Route 784 |
  | 18.7 | מחלף המוביל (HaMovil Interchange) | Aqueduct | HaSolelim | Highway 77 |
  | 20 | מחלף הסוללים (HaSolelim Interchange) | the road builders | HaSolelim, Shimshit | local road |
  | 23.8 | צומת ציפורי (Tzippori Junction) | ult. named after ancient location | Sepphoris | Road 7926 |
  | 24.3 | צומת עילוט (Ilut Junction) Eliminated 2020 | ult. Lot's Well | Ilut | Seforiya St. |
  | 25.2 | צומת אביהוא (Avihu Junction) | my father is he | Nazareth | Route 700 Road 7928 (Seforiya St.) |
  | 29.2 | צומת משהד (Mashhad Junction) | grave of a holy man (referring to Jonah) | Mashhad, Reineh, Upper Nazareth | Route 754 Road 6400 |
  
  ## Places of interest on Highway 79
  
  * Tel Afek
  * Monument to the Bedouin soldier
  * Hasolelim forest nature reserve
  * Sepphoris (ancient village)
  