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Arab town in Haifa District, Israel

Baqa al-Gharbiyye

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

Baqa al-Gharbiyye
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The place

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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What is there

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.

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    Al-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-Gharbiyye
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · ₪19–26
  • Eilat → Baqa al-Gharbiyye
    384 km · quickest by road, 7h 37m · ₪155–210
  • Amman → Baqa al-Gharbiyye
    130 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · JD7–9
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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.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    236 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    439 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    650 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,015 km

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Around it

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