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{{Short description|Highway junction in northern Israel}}
{{Infobox road junction
| name          = Megiddo Junction<br>{{lang|he|צומת מגידו}}
| image         = File:032-כביש 66 פנייה מכביש 65.jpg
| image_caption = The road junction in 2011
| coordinates   = {{Coord|32|34|23|N|35|11|31|E|display=inline,title}}
| location      = [[Northern Israel]]
| roads         = {{jct|country=ISR|Hwy|65}}<br>{{jct|country=ISR|Hwy|66}}
| type          = [[Intersection (road)|Intersection]]
| opened        = 
}}

The '''Megiddo Junction''' ({{Langx|he|צומת מגידו|translit=Tzomet Megido}}) is an [[intersection (road)|intersection]] of [[Highway 65 (Israel)|Highways 65]] and [[Highway 66 (Israel)|66]] in northern [[Israel]], at the exit from the mountain pass{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} coming up through [[Wadi Ara]] into the [[Jezreel Valley]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yudin |first1=Joe |title=Off the Beaten Track: Panoramic views from Mt. Gilboa |url=https://www.jpost.com/travel/around-israel/off-the-beaten-track-panoramic-views-from-mt-gilboa |website=JPost.com |publisher=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=23 November 2024 |language=en |date=10 November 2011}}</ref> 

It is named for the nearby ruins of the biblical city of [[Tel Megiddo|Megiddo]], also known as [[Armageddon]], and the sites of several historic [[Battle of Megiddo (disambiguation)|battles]]. Adjacent to the junction is the large [[Megiddo Prison]] (formerly a [[Israeli military prison|military prison]]), and less than {{convert|1|km}} to the northwest is [[Megiddo (kibbutz)|kibbutz Megiddo]].

The {{convert|5|km|adj=on}} stretch of Highway 65 east towards [[Afula]] is called ''Kvish HaSargel'', lit. 'the [[Ruler]] Road', since it is very flat and straight.

This is an important junction for the residents of the [[Northern District (Israel)|northern district of Israel]], because it sits at the entrance to the Wadi Ara mountain pass which connects the North to the Trans-Israel Highway ([[Highway 6 (Israel)|Highway 6]]) and other highways in [[Israeli coastal plain|Israel's coastal plain]] and, by that, to the rest of the country. Its importance slightly diminished when Highway 6 was completed all the way to the Ein Tut interchange near [[Ramot Menashe]] in 2009. The junction and Highway 66 can now be used as an alternate route for reaching Highway 6 via another mountain pass, [[Wadi Milek]], located northwest of Wadi Ara.

On June 5, 2002, 17 people lost their lives and 43 people were injured in the [[Megiddo Junction bus bombing]].

==See also==
*[[Megiddo (disambiguation)]]
*[[Battle of Megiddo (disambiguation)|Battles of Megiddo]] (disambiguation)
*[[Battle of Megiddo (1918)]]
*[[Battle of Sharon (1918)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/zachievenor/sets/72157640551378204/ Megiddo Airfield's Anemones], [[Flickr]]

[[Category:Road junctions in Israel]]
[[Category:Geography of Northern District (Israel)]]
[[Category:Tel Megiddo]]

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