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Israel–Jordan relations. Israel–Jordan relations are the diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between Israel and Jordan. The two countries share a land border, with three border crossings: Yitzhak Rabin/Wadi Araba Crossing, Jordan River Crossing and the Allenby/King Hussein Bridge Crossing, that connects the West Bank with Jordan ...
The Road of the Patriarchs or Way of the Patriarchs ( Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ הֲאָבוֹת Derech haʾAvot Lit. Way (of) the Fathers) is an ancient north–south route traversing the land of Israel and the region of Palestine. [1] The modern Highway 60 (Israel-Palestine) follows roughly the route of the Way of the Patriarchs.
The King's Highway was a trade route of vital importance in the ancient Near East, connecting Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrates River . After the Muslim conquest of the Fertile Crescent in the 7th century AD and until the 16th ...
Road Scholar is an American not-for-profit organization that provides educational travel programs primarily geared toward older adults. The organization is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. From its founding in 1975 until 2010, Road Scholar was known as Elderhostel. Road Scholar offers study tours throughout the United States and Canada ...
The bridge was built in the 1950s, along with the reconstruction of a road between Jerusalem and Amman, at a point where the distance between the two cities is the shortest, about 60 km. Today, that road is numbered "Highway 1" in Israel, "Road 40" on the Jordanian side. The bridge is named after King Abdullah I of Jordan.
Via Maris. Via Maris is one modern name for an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia — along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Syria. In Latin, Via Maris means "way of the sea", a translation of the Greek ὁδὸν ...
103 vehicles in 2005. Toll. JD 10.00 (Outbound Jordan) ₪ 101.00 (Outbound Israel) Location. The Jordan River Crossing ( Hebrew: מסוף נהר ירדן, Arabic: معبر نهر الأردن) or Sheikh Hussein Bridge is the northern international border crossing between Jordan and Israel. It is located between Irbid, in Jordan, and Beit She ...
The Allenby Bridge ( Hebrew: גשר אלנבי, romanized :Gesher Allenby ), known officially in Jordan as the King Hussein Bridge ( Arabic: جسر الملك حسين, romanized :Jisr al-Malek Hussein ), and also called the Al-Karameh Bridge ( جسر الكرامة) or simply Al-Jisr ( الجسر, lit.'the bridge') by Palestinian Arabs, [1] is ...