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Bustan al-Marj Regional Council

regional council of Israel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1530274 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bustan al-Marj Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית בוסתן אל-מרג', romanized: Mo'atza Azorit Bustan al-Marj; Arabic: مجلس بستان المرج الإقليمي) is a regional council in northern Israel. Its territory lies adjacent to the Jezreel Valley and north of Afula, and includes four Arab villages:

Villages

Ed-Dahi

Kafr Misr

Nein

Sulam

Voting Patterns

In the 2022 election, 86 percent of voters in the regional council voted for the Arab parties, while 11 percent voted for the parties of the center-left coalition led by Yair Lapid and 3 percent voted for the parties of the right-wing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu.

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“Bustan al-Marj Regional Council” enters the record as regional council of Israel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bustan, al-Marj and Regional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1530274. VIAF identifies the subject as 242796563. Authority coordinates are 32.620, 35.343. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bustan al-Marj Regional Council” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.