Binyamin Governor Ganz revealed in a conversation with Israel’s Olam Katan newspaper today that the IDF has begun preparations to open a road in the region that was blocked to Israeli traffic about 26 years ago out of security concerns due to ‘Palestinian’ Islamic terrorism. The road is a regional transverse route that starts at the Nili Junction in the west and ends at Road 466 near Al-Bireh in the east, connecting east to west in Binyamin.
It was closed to Israeli traffic during the Second Intifada, and as a result, the drive between the Telamonim bloc and the Beit El area lengthened from about 13 minutes to nearly an hour. Regional activists and residents from the area have been conducting daily drives along the route in recent weeks to establish Jewish presence in the field and bring about a security and political decision that will allow continuous traffic; according to Olam Katan, the Binyamin Regional Council has also obtained approval to open the road.