Hundreds of thousands took advantage of the Passover holiday and went to nature reserves, national parks and beaches • The result: huge traffic jams in the north and center • Estimated: Since most Israelis did not travel abroad during the holiday, road congestion was extreme this year • Netivei Israel: "Work to reduce congestion" Full
About 170,000 hikers went out today (Monday) to the nature reserves and national parks, on the first day of the week.
Tens of thousands more reached the shores and the north of the country.
According to estimates, due to the fact that Israelis hardly traveled abroad on Passover, the congestion on the roads increased drastically this year.
Photo: Hagai Peleg
Zeev Gutman, Head of the National Traffic Management Center of Netivei Israel: "These are loads that are unparalleled. The people of Israel went for a walk in all their glory and strength. We work closely with the Israel Police, while using technological means to control traffic lights and our service mobility system. Deployed throughout the country in order to provide a quick response to vehicles in need of assistance, thus reducing congestion. "
Complete list of corks
North
4 - Load from Keri Naaman Interchange West to Acre Junction East
4 - Load from the entrance to Shomrat to Regba Junction
4 A - and tax from Acre Junction East to Church No. Naaman Industry
22 - Traffic from Ata Interchange North to
Keri Naaman
Interchange
60 - Traffic from Balfouria Junction to Junction Tel Adashim
65 - congestion from Iron Interchange to Kfar Qara Junction
65 - congestion from the entrance to Givat Hamore to Gazit Junction
66 - congestion from Mishmeret HaEmek Junction to Megiddo Junction
70 - congestion from Somekh Interchange to Abelim Junction
70 - Load from the entrance to Lulatav, the Galilee Plain to the entrance to the quarry
70 - Load from the church to Jadida to the entrance to Kfar Yassif
70 - Load from the entrance to Beit HaEmek to the entrance to Kfar Yassif
70 - Load from the entrance to Tal to Yasif Junction
71 Joseph
73 - load Ginegar Junction Junction Tel lentils
77 - load interchange leading to Golani Interchange
85 - Carmiel junction load up the entrance to weave
85 - Ananias junction load up Carmiel junction north entrance La.tasiih
90 - load the comforting junction to the entrance Degania Bet
90 Load from Kfar Hanassi Junction to Mahanayim Junction
781 - Load from Galam Interchange to Abelim Junction
Center
:
1 congestion from Latrun Interchange to Harel Interchange
1 congestion from Shafirim Interchange to Kibbutz Galuyot Interchange
2 congestion from the entrance to Gaash (Hof Hasharon) to Caesarea Interchange
3 congestion from Nachshon Interchange to Latrun Interchange
3 congestion from Tal Shahar Junction to Hulda Junction
4 congestion from Gan Raveh Interchange to Junction Raanana
4 Load from Dror Interchange to Nahal Hadera Junction
4 Load from Haroeh Junction to Hefer Junction
4 Load from Morasha Interchange to Givat Shmuel Interchange
40 Load from Lod Interchange to El Al Junction
41 Load from Bnei Darom Church to Ashdod Port Junction
44 Load from Ramlod Interchange to Junction Maasiyahu-Transport
55 congestion from the entrance to Kfar Saba (Derech Hapoel) to the Kfar Saba East
junction 55 congestion from the Neve Yemin junction to the Kfar Saba East junction
57 congestion from the entrance to Shikun Degania to the Sharon junction
57 Load from Barutayim Junction to Nitzanei Oz Junction
444 Load from Hadid Monument to Nabalt Junction
444 Load from Givat 28 Junction to Migdal Afek
444 Load from the entrance to Hagor to Horshim Junction
444 Load from Tira Junction to the entrance to the Taibeh gas station
471 Load from Nachshonim Interchange to Migdal Afek Junction
471 Load from the Ono Interchange to the Bar Ilan Interchange
531 Load from the Jaljulia Interchange to the Horshim Interchange
553 Load from the Dror Interchange to the Kadima Junction
6,000 us camping in the national parks
Among the national parks stood out today in terms of hiker traffic: Caesarea with about 4,200 hikers, Yarkon-Tel Afek and Masada with about 3,000 hikers in each of them and Ashkelon, Beit Guvrin and Eshkol (Besor) with about 2,300 hikers in each of them.
Among the nature reserves stood out the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve with about 2,600 hikers and the Banias with about 2,200 hikers.
In addition, about 6,000 hikers chose to stay outdoors in one of the Nature and Parks Authority's overnight campgrounds around the country.
Among the prominent parking lots were the Tal grove, Achziv and Maayan Harod.
Meanwhile, the Nature and Parks Authority and Mifal Hapayis today launched the "Breathing Culture" project, in which hundreds of musicians, actors, dancers, circus artists, human sculptors, jugglers, opera singers and more will perform during the week for the trip to 12 selected national parks throughout The country will provide visitors with an even more unique and empowering experience at nature and heritage sites.
Raya Soraki, Director of the Public and Parks Division at the Nature and Parks Authority: "We are pleased to see many hikers in the open reserves and national parks. We once again call on the traveling public to show responsibility and mutual guarantee and if they are unable to exercise their visit to the reserves and national parks after registering, cancel it in advance. Others who want to come too. "
