Route 386 (Israel)
# Route 386 (Israel)

Route 386 is a road in Israel that runs from Tzur Hadassah to Jerusalem.

## Route

The route begins as a two-lane undivided road in the Judean Mountains at 730 meters above sea level at Tzur Hadassah Junction with Route 375. It travels west-northwest for 2 km. passing Moshav Bar Giora and Nes Harim Junction with Road 3866 where it turns eastward for 1.2 km. and negotiates a hairpin turn. The road then begins a long winding descent, first west, then north, then east, skirting around the west side of the Har Giora Nature Reserve offering scenic views as it descends into the Sorek Valley. At its lowest point of 550 meters, the road passes Jerusalem's largest sewage treatment facility (Sorek).

It then begins a slow northeasterly ascent as it passes Jerusalem's main electrical substation (Sapir Station) and the Sataf Spring Nature Reserve. Turning more easterly, it enters Jerusalem just before passing below Hadassah Hospital and intersects with Route 395 at Kerem Junction. It continues its ascent via Ein Kerem Street through the neighborhood of Ein Kerem travelling southeast, then north, then east until Holland Square adjacent to the Bayit VeGan neighborhood. From this point, Route 386 becomes a boulevard with traffic light controlled intersections.

The road continues northeasterly as Sderot Herzl (Herzl Boulevard), also known as Tzir Herzl (Herzl Axis), the major north-south route on the west side of the city. Along this portion of the route, tracks were laid for the Jerusalem Light Rail, which began operation in August 2011. The road passes Yad Vashem, the Mount Herzl National Cemetery and Sha'arei Tzedek Medical Center. Between Molikovsky Square at Shmuel Beyth Street and Haft Square at HeHalutz Street, northbound traffic may continue through Beit HaKerem along Herzl Boulevard. Southbound traffic, however, is shunted 0.2 km. west along the parallel Mordechai Ish Shalom Street.

After Haft Square, the road travels between the neighborhoods of Kiryat Moshe and Kiryat HaLeom, passing nearby the Kiryat Moshe Interchange of Highway 50 (Begin Expressway). It ends at 800 meters above sea level at Shazar Boulevard at the main western entrance to Jerusalem at the base of the Jerusalem Chords Bridge and the Binyanei HaUma Convention Center.

## Junctions

| km | Name | Type | Meaning | Location | Road(s) Crossed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 0 | צומת צור הדסה (Tzur Hadassah Junction) | | Rock of Hadassah | Tzur Hadassah, Mevo Beitar, Mount Kitron | Route 375 |
| 1.4 | | | | Fire Station | entrance road |
| 2 | צומת בר גיורה (Bar Giora Junction) | | named after Simon bar Giora | Bar Giora | entrance road |
| 2.2 | צומת נס הרים (Nes Harim Junction) | | Mountain Banner | Nes Harim | Road 3866 |
| 3.4 | (hairpin turn) | | | | |
| 7 | (narrow bridge over rail line) | | | Tel Aviv–Jerusalem Rail Line | |
| 9.1 | | | | Sorek Water Purification Plant | entrance road |
| 10 | (narrow bridge over stream) | | | Sorek Stream | |
| 10.1 | | | | JNF Canada Forest in the Jerusalem Hills | entrance road |
| 11.5 | | | | Sapir electrical substation | entrance road |
| 13.2 | | | | Sataf Spring Nature Reserve | entrance road |
| 14.5 | ↓Jerusalem Municipal Boundary↓ | ↓Jerusalem Municipal Boundary↓ | ↓Jerusalem Municipal Boundary↓ | ↓Jerusalem Municipal Boundary↓ | ↓Jerusalem Municipal Boundary↓ |
| 15.6 | | | | Hadassah Hospital, Even Sapir | Route 396 (Kalman Yaakov Mann St.) |
| 16.2 | צומת כרם (Kerem Junction) | | vineyard | | Route 395 |
| Ein Kerem Street ||||||
| 16.9 | | | | Ein Kerem | Emek HaTeimanim St. |
| 17.3 | כיכר קסטל (Kastel Square) | | castle | Ein Kerem | HaHadasim St. Ha'Ilanot Rd. |
| 17.4 | כיכר עין כרם (Ein Kerem Square) | | spring of the vineyard | Ein Kerem | HaAhayot Rd. HaHoma Lane |
| 17.5 | | | | Ein Kerem | HaMa'ayan St. HaSha'ar Alley |
| 17.55 | | | | Ein Kerem | HaOren St. |
| 17.6 | | | | Ein Kerem | HaOrev Alley |
| 17.7 | | | | Ein Kerem | Ma'ale HaBustan |
| 17.8 | | | | Ein Kerem | HaYekev Alley |
| 17.9 | | | | Ein Kerem | Karmit Rd. |
| 18.05 | | | | Ein Kerem | HaHoma Lane |
| 18.6 | | | | Ein Kerem | Shaul Barkali St. |
| 19.7 | | | | Jerusalem Light Rail Park and ride Facility | entrance |
| Herzl Boulevard ||||||
| 20 | כיכר הולנד (Holland Square) | | | Yad VaShem, Bayit VeGan, Jerusalem Light Rail Station | HaZikaron St., HaPisga St., Kiryat HaYovel St. |
| 20.2 | | | | Bayit VeGan | Bayit VeGan St., HaRav Uziel St. |
| 20.4 | | | | Har Herzl | entrance road |
| 20.6 | כיכר מיליקובסקי (Mileikowsky Square) | | named after Nathan Mileikowsky | Beit HaKerem, Yefeh Nof, Sha'arei Tzedek, Yad Sarah | Shmuel Beyth St., Yefeh Nof St. to Mordechai Ish-Shalom Rd. |
| 20.8 | (pedestrian crossing) | | | Beit HaKerem, Yefeh Nof, Jerusalem Light Rail Station | |
| 20.9 | | | | Beit HaKerem, Yefeh Nof | Aharonov St. |
| 21.1 | | | | Beit HaKerem, Yefeh Nof | HaMeyasdim St., HaTomer St. |
| 21.2 | כיכר דניה (Denia Square) | | named to honor the Danish resistance movement | Beit HaKerem, Yefeh Nof, Jerusalem Light Rail Station | HaArazim St., Beit HaKerem St. |
| 21.6 | (pedestrian crossing) | | | Beit HaKerem, Yefeh Nof, Jerusalem Light Rail Station | |
| 21.8 | כיכר האפט (Haft Square) | | named after Avraham Haft | Beit HaKerem, Yefeh Nof, Kiryat Moshe | Yehoshua Farbstein St. (to Mordechai Ish Shalom Rd.), HeHalutz St., Beit HaKerem St. |
| 22.1 | | | | Kiryat Moshe, Kiryat HaLeom | Wolfson Blvd., Baron Hirsch St. |
| 22.3 | (southbound only) | | | Kiryat Moshe | light rail crossing |
| 22.5 | | | | Kiryat Moshe, Kiryat HaLeom | Kiryat Moshe St., Rabin Blvd. to Highway 50 |
| 22.7 | | | | Kiryat Moshe, Rova Mevo Ha'ir, Jerusalem Light Rail Station | HaRav Tzvi Yehuda St. |
| 22.9 | | | | Givat Shaul, Romema, Rova Mevo Ha'ir, Strings Bridge | Shazar Blvd. |
