Ma'ale Iron (Ebreu: מעלה עירון‎‎, lit. Iron Heights) is an Israeli-Arab local cooncil in Israel's Haifa Destrict an is a pairt o the Wadi Ara region adjacent ae the Triangle. The toun consists o the five Arab veelages o Baiada, Musmus, Salim, Musheirifa an Zalafa. The veelages wur joined thegither in 1996 bi the Interior Meenistry o Israel tae form the local cooncil. Accordin tae the Israeli Central Bureau o Statistics, Ma'ale Iron haed a population o 12,800 indwallers in 2009, maistly Muslims.