Kafr Qāsim, İsrail Güncel Saati — IST.

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.

Distance-wise, Kafr Qāsim is closest to Dubai (~2,120 km), London (~3,566 km), Singapore (~7,945 km); Sydney is the far end at roughly 14,164 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Kafr Qāsim sits inside İsrail — the Western Asia subregion, capital Jerusalem, languages Arabic, Hebrew, currency ILS (₪).

Around Kafr Qāsim, the nearest mapped reference cities are Rosh Ha‘Ayin (3 km), El‘ad (7 km), Qalqīlyah (8 km), Petaẖ Tiqva (9 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for IST planning.

In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.