The Ad Halom Bridge, previously known as the Isdud Bridge or Jisr Isdud, was built over the Lakhish River (Wadi Sukrir/Wadi Fakhira) during the Mamluk period in the 13th century, and re-built by the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 19th century. A parallel railway bridge was added when the coastal railway (Lebanon–Egypt) was laid. After numerous armed raids in the area during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, the British authorities set up a series of pillboxes in the area, one of them next to the bridges. After its destruction in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the bridge was reconstructed and upgraded. Today the four-lane Highway 4 crosses the bridge.