The al-Batuf Regional Council (Arabic: البطوف‎, Hebrew: מועצה אזורית אל-בטוף‎, Mo'atza Azorit al-Batuf) is a regional council located on the southern fringe of the Bet Netofa valley North of Nazareth within the North District of Israel. It was formerly part Lev HaGalil regional council until 2003 and consists of the following four rural Israeli Arab villages. * Hamaam * Rumana * Rumat al-Heib * Uzeir The regional council is named after the al-Batuf Plain on which it is located. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Batuf had a population of 5,984 in 2003.