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Basma

Basma is an Israeli Arab local council in the Wadi Ara area of Haifa District.

Basma
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The place

Basma is an Israeli Arab local council in the Wadi Ara area of Haifa District. The local council was formed in 1995 through the consolidation of the villages of Barta'a West, Ein as-Sahala, and Muawiya; Basma is an acronym of the villages' names. In 2024 it had a population of 12,002. Basma's jurisdiction area covers 3,956 dunams.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Basma

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 58 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 102 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 121 km
  • Tel Aviv → Basma
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · ₪27–36
  • Eilat → Basma
    331 km · quickest by road, 6h 37m · ₪135–175
  • Amman → Basma
    102 km · quickest by road, 3h · JD5–7
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Basma

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 Basma. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    245 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    327 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    449 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    649 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,015 km

If you know how people move in Basma – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Basma

Basma is 56 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ar'araArab-Muslim village in northern Israel1.3 km
  • Barta'ahuman settlement in Israel3.3 km
  • 'AraArab Muslim village in northern Israel2.5 km
  • Al-Arianhuman settlement in Israel2.1 km
  • Ahwathuman settlement in Israel1.9 km
  • Ein as-SahlaArab village1.8 km