Allon Road near intersection of routes #508 and 458 south of Migdalim

The Allon Road is the name commonly given by Israelis to routes #578, #508, and #458 in the West Bank, running roughly north-south between Mehola in the central Jordan Valley and east of Ma'ale Adummim on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. The West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria Ma'ale Adumim (מעלה אדומים is an Israeli Settlement and city located east of Jerusalem in the West Bank and on the edge of the Judean

The road was the first immediate step in implementing the Allon Plan which was perhaps one of the earliest Israeli initiatives to deal with the territory west of Jordan that was newly occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War. The Allon Plan (תוכנית אלון was a proposal to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank with a negotiated partition of its territories between Israel Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (الأردنّ al-Urdunn) is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern Background Suez Crisis aftermath The Suez Crisis of 1956 represented a military defeat but a political victory for Egypt The plan called for the Israeli annexation of the narrow corridor of land along the west of the Jordan River up to the eastern slopes of the Samarian mountains in order to assure minimal strategical depth while relinquishing the rest of the West Bank to Arab-Jordanian control. This article is about the Jordan River and its valley in western Asia

The next step was to establish residential and agricultural settlements as well as military outposts along this strip of land in order to assure a minimal buffer zone that would hold up in the event of a Jordanian attack until Israeli Army reserve units could mobilize to the area. The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) (צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit Between 1967 and 1977, the Israeli Labour governments created 21 settlements, mostly agricultural cooperatives in this area. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays

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• Allon Plan