Highway 1 (Hebrew: כביש 1), is the main highway connecting Tel Aviv with Jerusalem. The highway is interrupted only at the entrance to Jerusalem while it passes through the city via Begin Expressway. On the eastern side of Jerusalem, Highway 1 continues past Ma'ale Adummim, and is then downgraded in size until the Almog Junction south of Jericho near the shores of the Dead Sea. On completion of current construction at the western entrance to Jerusalem, the road will continue uninterrupted north of the city. Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Jerusalem (Hebrew: , Yerushaláyim or Yerushalaim; Greek: Ιεροσόλυμα, Ierosólyma or Ιερουσαλήμ, IerousalÄ“m; Latin: Hierosolyma; Arabic: , al-Quds; official Arabic in Israel: أورشليم القدس, Urshalim-Al-Quds) is the largest city of Israel. ... The Menachem Begin Expressway (or Begin Boulevard) is an urban expressway in western Jerusalem. ... Copyright Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem Maale Adummim (מעלה אדומים; unofficially also spelled Maale Adumim) is an Israeli settlement in the Judea region of the West Bank, east of East Jerusalem. ... The Taking of Jericho, by Jean Fouquet Near central Jericho, November 1996 For other meanings of the word Jericho, see: Jericho (disambiguation) Jericho (Arabic ; ʼArīḥā; Hebrew ; Standard Hebrew YÉ™riḥo; Tiberian Hebrew YÉ™rîḫô, YÉ™rîḥô, Greek Ίεριχώ = Ίερή ηχώ, HierÄ“ Ä“chō - Holy echo) is a town in the West Bank, near... The Dead Sea (Hebrew: ) (Arabic: ‎) is both the lowest point on Earth at 418 meters (1,371 ft) below sea level and falling[2], and the deepest hypersaline lake in the world at 330 meters (1,083 ft) deep and 799 meters (2,621 ft) below sea level. ...

The highway briefly crosses over the Green Line near Latrun, and continues onto the West Bank past Jerusalem. Renewed access to this section, which connects Jerusalem to Jericho and the Dead Sea and is known as the "Jericho Road" (Hebrew: דרך יריחו) or the Adumim Ascent (Hebrew: מעלה אדומים), was famously noted alongside the reunification of Jerusalem in the famous Israeli song, Jerusalem of Gold. The term Green Line is often used to refer to the 1949 Armistice lines established between Israel and its opponents (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt) at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. ... The Trappist Monastery. ... The Dead Sea (Hebrew: ) (Arabic: ‎) is both the lowest point on Earth at 418 meters (1,371 ft) below sea level and falling[2], and the deepest hypersaline lake in the world at 330 meters (1,083 ft) deep and 799 meters (2,621 ft) below sea level. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... Jerusalem of Gold, or as it is known in Hebrew: Yerushalayim Shel Zahav ירושלים של זהב, is a popular Israeli song written and sung by Naomi Shemer in 1967. ...

Interchanges

Below is a list of the interchanges of Highway 1, from northwest to southeast. The highway with which Highway 1 interchanges is in parentheses.

• Kibbutz Galuyot Interchange (Ayalon Highway (Highway 20), Road 461)
• Ganot Interchange (Highway 4)
• Shafirim Interchange (Road 412)
• Ben Gurion Interchange (Road 4503)
• Lod Interchange (Highway 40, 46)
• Ben Shemen Interchange (Highway 6, Highway 443)
• Daniel Exit (Highway 6)
• Latrun Interchange (Highway 3)
• Sha'ar HaGai Interchange (Highway 38, Road 415)
• Shoresh Interchange (Road 3955)
• Hemed Interchange (Road 425, 3975)
• Har'el Interchange (Road 3985)
• Motza Interchange (Shorek Street in Mevaseret Zion)
• Givat Shaul Interchange (Weizmann Road in Jerusalem)
• Golda Meir Interchange (Road 436)
• Yigael Yadin Interchange (Road 404)
• Sha'ar Mizrach Interchange (Highway 60)
• HaZeitim Interchange
• Adummim Interchange (Road 417)