Kafr Qasim

Kafr Qasim כַּפְר קָסִם, כפר קאסם‎ كفر قاسم
City (from 2008)
Hebrew transcription(s)
• ISO 259	Kpar Qásim, Kpar Qáˀsem
• Also spelled	Kafar Qasem (official) Kufur Kassem (unofficial)
Roundabout in Kafr Qasim with a monument for the massacre in 1956, the central mosque with another monument, and mixed-used buildings.
Emblem of Kafr Qasim
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Coordinates: 32°06′54″N 34°58′30″E / 32.1151°N 34.9751°E / 32.1151; 34.9751
Grid position	148/168 PAL
Country	Israel
District	Central
Original settlement	Neolithic
Modern city	2008
Government
• Mayor	Haitam Taha
Area
• Total	9,154 dunams (9.154 km2 or 3.534 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[1]
• Total	25,285
• Density	2,800/km2 (7,200/sq mi)
Name meaning	The village of Kasim[2]
Website	kfar-qasem.muni.il

Kafr Qasim (Arabic: كفر قاسم, Hebrew: כַּפְר קָאסִם), also spelled as Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem, Kfar Kassem and Kafar Kassem, is a hill-top city in Israel with an Arab population. 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 2022 its population was 25,285.^[1] 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.^[3]