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Petroleum Road
Privately owned road in Israel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Petroleum Road or Tapline Road (Hebrew: כביש הנפט, Kvish HaNeft) is a 47 km (29 mi) long, privately owned north-south asphalt road in the Golan Heights. The name Petroleum Road derives from the now defunct oil pipeline of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company, which the road runs adjacent to. It begins near Mount Peres on the east edge of the central Golan and ends in the northern Golan near the Israeli-occupied Golan-Lebanese frontier, nearby Ghajar.
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Tapline Road | |
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Length | 45 km (28 mi) |
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South end | Orha Junction |
North end | Ghajar |
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Country | Israel |
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Most of it is marked on maps as inaccessible because of poor road quality.[lower-alpha 1]
Since the road diagonally bisects the entire length of the northern portion of the Golan Heights, it was the site of many battles fought along its axis during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.