# Route 505 (Israel–Palestine)

Route 505 is a regional Israeli highway in the West Bank.

## History

Until the 1990s, only Route 505 was considered the "Trans-Samaria Highway". Highway 5, which hadn't yet been upgraded to a highway, was a narrow, curved two-lane road that reached the Kassem junction and continued as a minimal two-lane road for 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the entrance to Kfar Kassem. At this point, the road (today's Highway 5) connected to the old Route 505, which crossed Kfar Kassem.
An early improvement was to extend and pave Route 5 along an additional 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) as a bypass road, which ended where the Sha'ar Shomron Interchange exists now. Eastward beyond that, the Trans-Samaria Highway was only Route 505. During the late 1990s and during the 2000s the National Roads Company of Israel continued to develop Route 5 as a two-lane highway in a new route south of Route 505 instead of upgrading the 505 route so that the two highways were parallel for a distance of about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi). Since November 2008, route 5 has ended at the Ariel junction, where it connects with Route 505 which continues as the "Trans-Samaria Highway" to the intersection with Highway 90 in the Petza'el intersection in the Jordan Valley.
In 2010 Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz ordered the planning for the route to connect the Gush Dan region with the Jordan Valley.

## Interchanges and Junctions (West to East)

| District | Location | km | mi | Name | Destinations | Notes |
| Judea and Samaria | Oranit Elkana | 0 | 0.0 | מחלף שער שומרון (Samaria Gate Interchange) | Highway 5 | |
| Judea and Samaria | Sha'arei Tikva | 1.7 | 1.1 | צומת אורנית (Oranit Junction) | Road 5050 | |
| Judea and Samaria | Sha'arei Tikva | 3 | 1.9 | צומת שערי תקווה (Sha'arei Tikva Junction) | Inbar Street | |
| Judea and Samaria | Elkana | 3.8 | 2.4 | צומת אלקנה (Elkana Junction) | Adnei Paz Road | |
| Judea and Samaria | Elkana | 4.1 | 2.5 | צומת אלקנה (Elkana Junction) | Smadar Street | |
| Highway 505 between Elkana and Kiryat Netafim (5.5 km) is open only to residents of the local villages |||||||
| Judea and Samaria | Kiryat Netafim | 12 | 7.5 | צומת קריית נטפים (Kiryat Netafim Junction) | Entrance to Kiryat Netafim | |
| Judea and Samaria | Barkan | 12.1 | 7.5 | צומת יקיר גדול (Yakir Gadol Junction) | Entrance to Barkan Industrial Park | |
| Judea and Samaria | Revava Haris | 13.5 | 8.4 | צומת יקיר קטן (Yakir Katan Junction) | Road 5066 | |
| Judea and Samaria | Revava Haris | 14.5 | 9.0 | צומת גיתי (Gitai Junction) | Highway 5 | Western end of concurrency with Highway 5 |
| Judea and Samaria | Ariel Kifl Haris | 17 | 11 | צומת אריאל (Ariel Junction) | Highway 5 Road 4775 | Eastern end of concurrency with Highway 5 |
| Judea and Samaria | Kfar Tapuach | 26.4 | 16.4 | צומת תפוח (Tapuach Junction) | Highway 60 Road 4775 | |
| Judea and Samaria | Migdalim | 37 | 23 | צומת מגדלים (Migdalim Junction) | Road 5077 | |
| Judea and Samaria | Majdal Bani Fadil | 39 | 24 | צומת אלון (Allon Junction) | Route 458 | Western end of concurrency with Allon Road |
| Judea and Samaria | Gitit Ma'ale Efrayim | 43.5 | 27.0 | צומת מעלה אפרים (Ma'ale Efrayim Junction) | Route 508 | Eastern end of concurrency with Allon Road |
| Judea and Samaria | Ma'ale Efrayim | 47 | 29 | מסעף מעלה אפרים (Ma'ale Efrayim Branch) | Bnei Efraim Street | |
| Judea and Samaria | Petza'el | 55 | 34 | מסעף פצאל (Petza'el Branch) | Road 5085 | |
| Judea and Samaria | Petza'el | 56.5 | 35.1 | צומת פצאל (Petza'el Junction) | Highway 90 | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus |||||||