Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman says he has agreed with Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli on funds to upgrade Route 90, days after an accident on the highway killed four.
“The budgeting will go into a multi-year plan and the work will begin as early as this year,” Liberman says in a tweet.
Liberman says the plan will address all 120 kilometers of the highway, costing hundreds of millions of shekels.
Route 90, Israel’s longest highway, runs along the eastern boundary from Metula in the north to Eilat in the south. Most of the road is decades old and currently consists of only one lane in each direction, with no divider. Its length and characteristics have made it one of the country’s deadliest routes.
A number of fatal crashes in recent years have sparked calls for significant safety upgrades on the road, which also traverses the West Bank.
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