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

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.
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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 → Basma58 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · ₪27–36
- Eilat → Basma331 km · quickest by road, 6h 37m · ₪135–175
- Amman → Basma102 km · quickest by road, 3h · JD5–7
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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Next door to Basma
Basma is 56 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.