'Bridge of ed-Damieh'),[1][2] known as Prince Muhammad Bridge in Jordan, and as Gesher Adam (Hebrew: גשר אדם, lit.

After 1991 it was used only for goods transported by truck between Israel, the West Bank and Jordan until its closure for security reasons sometime between 2002 and 2005 during the Second Intifada.

The Hebrew Bible mentions a town called Adam near Zaretan in the Jordan Valley (Joshua 3:16).

Most scholars identify nearby Tall Damiyah, called by some Tel Adam in Modern Hebrew, with the historical and biblical city of Adama,[6] with the US-American biblical scholar William F. Albright offering the theory that Adama/Admah and Adam are one and the same.

[11] In January 1968, Jordan built a prefabricated metal bridge to facilitate the trade connections to the West Bank.