Baqa al-Gharbiyye
Baqa al-Gharbiyye is a predominantly Arab city in the "Triangle" region of Israel near the Green Line.

Baqa al-Gharbiyye is a predominantly Arab city in the "Triangle" region of Israel near the Green Line. In 2003, Baqa al-Gharbiyye united with the Jatt local council to form Baqa-Jatt, a unification that was dissolved a few years later. The city had a population of 31,275 in 2024.
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Worth seeing in and around Baqa al-Gharbiyye
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Al-Qasemi Academic College
The Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education is an academic college located in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the Haifa District in Israel. The College was founded in 1989 as a college for Sharia and Islamic Studies, is authorized by the Council for Higher Education in Israel and specializes in the following fields: Islamic Studies, Arabic Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Mathematics and Computers in the elementary and secondary tracks, Early Childhood Education track, Special Education track.
800 m · Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education · Wikipedia
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Getting to Baqa al-Gharbiyye
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 48 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 102 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 119 km
- Stations
- Ein Shemer Airfield, 4.3 km
- Tel Aviv → Baqa al-Gharbiyye45 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · ₪19–26
- Eilat → Baqa al-Gharbiyye384 km · quickest by road, 7h 37m · ₪155–210
- Amman → Baqa al-Gharbiyye130 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · JD7–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Baqa al-Gharbiyye
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Baqa al-Gharbiyye. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Baqa al-Gharbiyye
Baqa al-Gharbiyye is 45 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Harishtown in Haifa district of Israel4.3 km
- ZemerArab-Muslim village in Israel (merger of four villages – Bir al-Sika, Ibtan, Marja and Yama; in 1988)6 km
- Ein Shemerhuman settlement5.6 km
- Qaffinmunicipality in Tulkarm Governorate4.1 km
- An-Nazla al-Gharbiyavillage council in Tulkarm Governorate4.4 km
- An-Nazla al-Wustavillage council in Tulkarm Governorate5.2 km