Transforming Transportation
Imagine a world where you’re standing at a smart bus stop, waiting for public transport that goes along a preferential lane. The bus arrives exactly on time and takes you straight to work in Central Israel, with enough time to spare that you can grab a coffee before your morning meeting. Meanwhile, your colleague decided to travel in a different way: she left her car in a huge park ‘n’ ride lot and took a fast shuttle, which can travel in designated express lanes, directly to the office.
Imagine that you don’t need four wheels at all, because it’s so easy to get anywhere you need to go on two. You can move around the entire Dan Region by bicycle, following a continuous network of long-distance bike paths that enable safe, accessible travel. Plus your entire daily routine is intertwined with advanced transportation technology, like traffic management and synchronized traffic lights, to help make everyone’s lives easier.
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We’re Ayalon Highways and this is our mission.
We are a government company acting on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Transport, and our job is to make this dream a reality. How are we doing this? By creating a full spectrum of transport solutions that present real alternatives to sitting around in traffic jams in your own private car, helping you get anywhere, quickly and conveniently, in any way you choose.
Public Transport
Green Transport
Traffic Management
Technology & Innovation
Shared Mobility
Maintenance & Infrastructure
The Company’s Roles
Transport Infrastructure
Initiation, planning, construction, maintenance, and management of transportation infrastructures in Israel’s urban and metropolitan areas.
Master Plan Team
Activation and management of a metropolitan transport master plan team, covering all areas of transportation while simultaneously promoting long-term planning and deriving suitable plans for immediate implementation.
Innovative Technological Solutions
Promoting smart transportation by managing, initiating, and developing innovative technological solutions and integrating them with infrastructures nationwide, while also adapting these innovations to changing circumstances in the car and transport market.
Public Transport
Supporting public transport, while highlighting demand management, connectivity, and sustainable solutions in urban and metropolitan areas.
Traffic Management
Management and regulation of traffic in urban and metropolitan areas.
Executive Arm
The executive arm of the Ministry of Transport, responsible for launching and performing activities that promote transport solutions in Israel.
Timeline
Since it was founded in 1968, Ayalon Highways has amassed extensive engineering and management experience encompassing many complex and large-scale urban projects. Today it is one of Israel’s leading project planning and construction companies in the field of infrastructure and transportation.

1968
Ayalon Highways is established

1976
HaShalom Bridge opens in Tel Aviv

1978
Kibbutz Galuyot Bridge is connected to Highway 1

1981
A bus lane is launched in Petah Tikva

1982
The northern HaHalacha Bridge to HaShalom Bridge highway section is opened

1985
Bridge connection with the Jerusalem Highway opens

1988
New HaHalacha Bridge opens

1989
Rokach Bridge opens

1990
Ayalon Highway section opens from Glilot to Rokach, north to south

1991
Ayalon Highway section opens from Rokach to Glilot, south to north, by the sea

1992
Glilot Bridge opens

1993
Holon Interchange / Wolfson Junction open

1994
Moshe Dayan Road, Rothschild Bridge, and a bridge over Highway 4 open

1995
The Glilot – HaHalacha section of the Ayalon South opens

2003
Wolfson Interchange opens

2022
First public transport lanes launched on the Ayalon South & North

2025
Fast lanes project to be launched in full