# Highway 71 (Israel)

Highway 71 is an east-west highway that passes through the eastern Jezreel Valley and the Beit She'an Valley, below the north slopes of the Gilboa mountains, in northern Israel. The road follows a path parallel to the Harod Creek in the Harod Valley and to the Jezreel Valley railway. It is 35 kilometres (22 mi) long and leads from Afula in the west, via Beit She'an, to the Jordan River Border Crossing in the east. The Navot interchange located approximately 10 km southeast of Afula provides a shortcut via Route 675 through the Ta'anakh region from Highway 71 and Beit She'an to Highway 65 and central Israel.

## Plans

The portion of the highway between the Navot interchange and Yissachar junction is a four-lane limited-access road, with the rest of the highway consisting of two lanes. In 2020, the National Roads Authority (Netivei Yisrael) published a design-build contract to upgrade the remainder of the highway from Yissachar to Beit She'an to a four-lane limited access road and conversion most of the main intersections to interchanges. This busy section serves local and inter-city traffic to Beit She'an, including frequent freight traffic to and from the border crossing with Jordan.

## Junctions & Interchanges (West to East)

| District | Location | km | mi | Name | Destinations |
| Northern | Afula | 0 | 0.0 | כיכר ללא שם (Unnamed Square) | Ben Gurion Blvd. |
| Northern | Merhavia (kibbutz) | 0.5 | 0.31 | צומת מרחביה (Merhavia Junction) | Road 7155 |
| Northern | Merhavia (moshav) | 2 | 1.2 | צומת מושב מרחביה (Moshav Merhavia Junction) | Entrance to Merhavia (moshav) |
| Northern | Kfar Yehezkel | 8 | 5.0 | מחלף נבות (Navot Interchange) | Route 675 |
| Northern | Kfar Yehezkel | 9 | 5.6 | מחלף גדעונה (Gidona Interchange) | Road 7101 Road 7103 |
| Northern | Ein Harod | 11 | 6.8 | צומת יששכר (Yissachar Junction) | Route 716 |
| Northern | Tel Yosef | 12 | 7.5 | צומת תל יוסף (Tel Yosef Junction) | Road 7107 |
| Northern | Beit HaShita | 16 | 9.9 | מחלף השיטה (HaShita Interchange) | Route 669 Road 7105 |
| Northern | Sde Nahum | 20.5 | 12.7 | צומת שדה נחום (Sde Nahum Junction) | Entrance to Sde Nahum |
| Northern | Beit She'an | 22 | 14 | צומת מחנה גדעון (Gideon Camp Junction) | HaHashmal Street |
| Northern | Beit She'an | 23 | 14 | כיכר ללא שם (Unnamed Square) | Road 7078 |
| Northern | Beit She'an | 23.5 | 14.6 | צים סנטר (Tsim Center) | Ha'Amel Street |
| Northern | Beit She'an | 25 | 16 | צומת שאן (She'an Junction) | Highway 90 |
| Northern | Emek HaMaayanot Regional Council | 26 | 16 | צומת מעוז חיים (Maoz Haim Junction) | Road 7079 |
| Northern | Neve Eitan | 27 | 17 | צומת בית קולין (Beit Colin Junction) | Western entrance to Neve Eitan |
| Northern | Neve Eitan | 27.5 | 17.1 | צומת נווה איתן (Neve Eitan Junction) | Eastern entrance to Neve Eitan |
| Northern | Maoz Haim | 29.5 | 18.3 | צומת רופין (Rupin Junction) | Road 6688 |
| Northern | Jordan River Crossing | 31 | 19 | צומת נהר הירדן (Jordan River Junction) | Crossing to Jordan |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |||||||

## Places of interest on Highway 71

* Ma'ayan Harod National Park
* Beit Shturman Museum [he]
* Trumpeldor House
* Beit She'an National Park
* Geon HaYarden Nature Reserve [he]
* Mishkan Museum of Art