Local council in Israel

Basma

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

Every way there

Tel Aviv → Basma
58 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · ₪27–36
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Eilat → Basma
331 km · quickest by road, 6h 36m · ₪135–175
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Amman → Basma
102 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.

The field note

What is in and around Basma, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Basma has

YScheduled flightsTel Aviv (TLV), 58 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

32.502°, 35.104°

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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.