Ma'ale Iron is an Israeli-Arab

Arab citizens of Israel

Arab citizens of Israel refers to citizens of Israel who are not Jewish, and whose cultural and linguistic heritage or ethnic identity is Arab....

 local council

Local council (Israel)

Local councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being cities and regional councils. As of 2003, there were 144 local councils in Israel, these being settlements which pass a minimum threshold enough to justify their operations as independent...

 in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

's Haifa District

Haifa District

Haifa District is an administrative district surrounding the city of Haifa, Israel. The district is one of six administrative districts of Israel, and its capital is Haifa...

 and is a part of the Wadi Ara

Wadi Ara

Wadi Ara or Nahal Iron , refers to an area within Israel that is mostly populated by Arabs. It is located northwest of the Green Line and is mostly within Israel's Haifa District. Today, Highway 65 runs through the wadi.-Geography:...

 region adjacent to the Triangle

Triangle (Israel)

The Triangle , formerly referred to as the Little Triangle, is a concentration of Israeli Arab towns and villages adjacent to the Green Line, located in the eastern Sharon plain among the Samarian foothills; this area is located within the easternmost boundaries of both the Center District and...

. The town consists of the five Arab villages of Baiada, Musmus

Musmus

Musmus is an Israeli-Arab village within the local council of Ma'ale Iron in Israel's Haifa District. It is located north of the city Umm al-Fahm in the Wadi Ara region and is part of the triangle.مصمص بلدة صغيرة تقع بالقرب من مرج ابن عامر-See also:...

, Salim, Musheirifa and Zalafa

Zalafa, Ara Valley

Zalafa is an Israeli Arab village located in the north of the Wadi Ara region adjacent to "the Triangle". Situated southwest of Afula, the total population of the village in 1999 was 3,000 inhabitants....

. The villages were joined together by the Interior Ministry of Israel to form the local council. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, Ma'ale Iron had a population of 12,100 inhabitants in 2005, mostly Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

s.