King Hussein Bridge

Allenby Bridge גשר אלנבי جسر الملك حسين
Allenby Bridge from the Jordanian side
Carries	Pedestrians, vehicles
Crosses	Jordan River
Locale	Jordan West Bank
Official name	Allenby/King Hussein Bridge מסוף אלנבי جسر الملك حسين
Maintained by	Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Israel Airports Authority
History
Construction start	1918
Construction end	1919- destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
Opened	1994
Rebuilt	1964
Statistics
Daily traffic	1.2 million pedestrians in 2007 and 12,000 trucks
Toll	₪176.00 (Outbound West Bank) ₪155.00 (Outbound West Bank - Palestinians only) JD10.00 (Outbound Jordan)
Allenby Bridge Location of the Allenby Bridge at West Bank-Jordan border

Coordinates: 31°52′27″N 35°32′27″E / 31.87417°N 35.54083°E / 31.87417; 35.54083 The Allenby Bridge (Hebrew: גשר אלנבי‎ Gesher Allenby, also known as the King Hussein Bridge Arabic: جسر الملك حسين‎ Jisr al-Malek Hussein), is a bridge that crosses the Jordan River near the city of Jericho, and connects the West Bank with Jordan. The bridge is currently the sole designated exit/entry point for West Bank Palestinians traveling abroad.

The original bridge was built in 1918 over a remnant of an old Ottoman colonial era bridge by the British general Edmund Allenby. The original bridge had been built in 1885 by the Ottoman government of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem.

It was destroyed once in the Night of the bridges operation by Palmach at June 16, 1946, thus severing one of the main overland connections between Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan. It was destroyed again during the Six-Day War, but was replaced in 1968 with a temporary truss-type bridge. This bridge is still called the Allenby Bridge by Israelis, although it is also known as Al-Karameh Bridge to Palestinian Arabs, and the King Hussein Bridge to Jordanians. In the late 1990s, and subsequent to the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, a new modern paved crossing was constructed adjacent to the older wooden one with the aid of the Japanese Government.