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Toll Roads In Israel

Toll Roads - Route 6 - Kvish Shesh

Currently, in Israel, there are a total of three toll roads. The longest one, running pretty much through the middle of the country. is known in Israel as Route 6, or Kvish Shesh (kveesh shesh). Depending on where you need to go, it can save a you a lot of time while traveling through the country as it by-passes most of the cities along the way.  There is a per section fee for using this road.  Even without a transponder in your car, there are camera’s at every entrance and exit taking pictures of your license plate and charging the owner of the plate with the fee.  This can be costly if you are using a rental car in Israel.  Make sure that you know what the rental car company’s policy is regarding Kvish 6 before you are billed with surprise charges. The Kvish Shesh website is completely in Hebrew. This is a link to an investors relations page, in English here: The Kivsh Shesh Rate table page can be opened with the button below. It is in Hebrew, and thus the columns are read from right to left.  We’ll do our best to decipher it for you.  The first main row is for rates applying to a vehicle up to four tonnes, the second is for motorcycles and the third row, is for trucks.  Each of three sub-rows within each of the main rows indicates the type or lack of membership to the road.  The first row indicates rates for a “cash paying customer”.  Basically a customer with no membership at all.  The second row is for customers with a video subscription.  The third is for customers signed up with a transponder in their car.  Each of the columns, after the first two, represent the amount of sections traveled on the road.  So the fourth column is for up to 3 sections, and the fifth column is for 3 sections and includes travel on the northern most section, and so on. The last column is for the fee to travel on the northern section alone.  All rates are in New Israeli Shekels or ILS. So, basically, the least that a visitor to Israel would pay is for traveling the northern section alone at 12.89 ILS. A run through the regular sections up to three sections is 19.82 ILS.  The maximum a visitor would pay, using Kvish Shesh from top to bottom is 33.19 ILS. These rates do not include any surcharges that a rental car company may charge you for using the road.  It is strongly recommended that you speak with your rental agency to know exactly what their rates are. Here’s the link to the rate table and then after a link to the Wikipedia Web Page on Kvish Shesh, so far, the best English language web page that we have found about it. 

Toll Roads - Carmel Tunnels - Minharot HaCarmel

There is also a tunnel toll road cutting through the Carmel mountains in the north of the Israel in the city of Haifa.  If you use this road it too can save you a lot of time compared to driving around the mountain range and through the traffic and congestion of Haifa.  The toll tunnel has tollbooths where you can pay with cash or credit card.  From the all Hebrew website we found that a one way trip through the tunnel consists of two segments and currently has a fee of 7.00 ILS per segment, or 14.00 ILS to use the entire route. Of course Wikipedia has a web page for this tunnel and here is the link.

Toll Roads - Highway 1 Fast Lane

The Highway 1 Fast lane is a 13 km stretch of road running from just before the Ben Gurion Airport to the Kibbutz Galuyot Exit in Tel Aviv. There’s not too much about this on the Web right now, usually just add-on information to pages about the Highway 1.  What we have seen is that rates vary during the day, with peak times being the most highest fee, of course.  Rates are posted on a big digital sign near the entrance to the Fast Lane.  They range in price from a minimum of 7.00 ILS to as high as 75.00 ILS for the trip (rates quoted from an article in the Haaretz.com article about the lanes).  Like the Kvish Shesh, the system is automatic and records your license plate number to send you your bill every month.  And like Kvish Shesh, speak with your car rental agency to see exactly what their policy is.

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