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Highway 55 is an west–east
highway running from central
Israel through the Israeli-occupied
West Bank. Its Western terminus is in
Kfar Saba, and it continues east to
Nablus. Much of the road follows the eastern section of the "
Aphek Ascent", an ancient east–west trade route connecting the
Via Maris and the
Way of the Patriarchs.
After the
First Intifada and the blocking of the road by Palestinians in the late 1980s and early 1990s, several bypass roads were built, south of Qalqilya and north of Azzun. Today the road serves the 20,000 Jews along its route and the 100,000 Arabs who live between Qalqilya and Nablus.
