Highway 6 attracted many opponents, from the Green groups who tried to prevent the paving of the highway in nature-reserve areas to ultra-Orthodox Jews who claimed the construction of the road was desecrating graves in certain places.

In the picture—extreme right-wing demonstrators clash with policemen and guards in a protest against grave desecration during the construction of Highway 6 next to Kibbutz Regavim north of Wadi Ara.