Kafr Qāsim
Kafr Qasim, also spelled as Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem, Kfar Kassem and Kafar Kassem, is an Arab city in Israel.
Kafr Qasim, also spelled as Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem, Kfar Kassem and Kafar Kassem, is an Arab city in Israel. It is located about 20 km (12 mi) east of Tel Aviv, on the Israeli side of the Green Line separating Israel and the West Bank, in the southern portion of the "Little Triangle" of Arab-Israeli towns and villages. In 2024 its population was 27,996. The town was the site of the Kafr Qasim massacre, in which the Israel Border Police killed 49 civilians on October 29, 1956. On February 12, 2008, Israeli Minister of the Interior Meir Sheetrit declared Kafr Qasim a city in a ceremony held at the town.
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Getting to Kafr Qāsim
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 14 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 97 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 106 km
- Eilat → Kafr Qāsim284 km · quickest by road, 5h 49m · ₪115–150
- Amman → Kafr Qāsim93 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · JD6–8
- El Arish → Kafr Qāsim157 km · quickest by road, 4h 42m · E£370–495
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kafr Qāsim
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 Kafr Qāsim. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inShared taxis run along route 51, enter Petah Tikva along Jabotinsky road (via Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak) on a 24/7 basis.
From Wikivoyage: Petah Tikva, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Kafr Qāsim
Kafr Qāsim is 19 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.