Highway 45 is the official designation of a 3.4 km stretch of highway forming a continuous conection between Route 443 from Lod

Lod

Lod is a city located on the Sharon Plain southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2010, it had a population of 70,000, roughly 75 percent Jewish and 25 percent Arab.The name is derived from the Biblical city of Lod...

 via the Ben Shemen Interchange

Ben Shemen Interchange

Ben Shemen Interchange is a major freeway interchange complex in central Israel, connecting Highway 1, Highway 6, Route 443 and Route 444, as well as several local roads. The interchange is located near moshav Ben Shemen and Ben Shemen Forest, hence its name...

 and Route 404 (Begin Expressway) to central Jerusalem. At its junction with Route 404, the officially numbered "45" takes a 90-degree turn eastwards running 0.8 km to the Atarot Industrial Zone.

Originally, the road was supposed originate in the Dan Region, passing slightly north of Beit Horon

Beit Horon

Beit Horon is an Israeli settlement and communal village bordering Route 443, the biblical pass of Beit Horon, between Modi'in and Jerusalem. Beit Horon receives municipal services from the Matte Binyamin Regional Council...

 and Beit Ur al-Fauqa

Beit Ur al-Fauqa

Beit Ur al-Fauqa is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, east of Ramallah and southeast of Beit Ur al-Tahta...

. The current Route 443, just south of these towns, has replaced that plan. Furthermore, an easterly extension is still officially envisioned which would continue from Atarot and connect with the existing Route 437 leading to Mishor Adummim.

The Route

km	Name	Type	Meaning	Location	Road(s) Crossed
0	צומת גבעת זאב (Givat Ze'ev Junction)		Wolf Hill	Givat Ze'ev Ofer Prison Ofer Prison Ofer Prison , formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385 , is an Israeli incarceration facility located in the West Bank, between Ramallah/Beituniya and Giv'at Ze'ev...	Route 443 Route 436
3.4	צומת עטרות (Atarot Junction)		named after location Ataroth Ataroth means "crowns" in Hebrew.The Mesha Stele from about 840 BC was erected commemorating Mesha's victory over the "son" of Omri, but he fails to say which one. He states that he massacred all the Israelites at Ataroth as satisfaction for the blood lust of Chemosh and Moab... Crowns	Atarot Atarot Atarot was a moshav in Mandatory Palestine, north of Jerusalem along the highway to Ramallah. The village was captured and destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...	Route 404
4.2				Atarot Industrial Zone	Atarot Road