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Dan Bus Company is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
 company based in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
. It operates local bus service in the Gush Dan
Gush Dan

Gush Dan is a metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Center District Districts of Israel. It is located along the Israeli coastal plain....
 metropolitan area as well as some intercity bus service connecting the Gush Dan area with nearby regions of the country such as Samaria
Samaria

Samaria, or the Shomron is a term used for the mountainous region in northern Israel roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank....
 and Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. Dan operates 1,200 buses and has 2,400 employees. It transports over 600,000 passengers daily.

The company was founded as a cooperative
Cooperative

A cooperative is defined by the International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled business....
 on December 1, 1945, from the merger of 2 companies, Galei HaMaavir and Ihud Regev.






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Dan Bus Company is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
 company based in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
. It operates local bus service in the Gush Dan
Gush Dan

Gush Dan is a metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Center District Districts of Israel. It is located along the Israeli coastal plain....
 metropolitan area as well as some intercity bus service connecting the Gush Dan area with nearby regions of the country such as Samaria
Samaria

Samaria, or the Shomron is a term used for the mountainous region in northern Israel roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank....
 and Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. Dan operates 1,200 buses and has 2,400 employees. It transports over 600,000 passengers daily.

The company was founded as a cooperative
Cooperative

A cooperative is defined by the International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled business....
 on December 1, 1945, from the merger of 2 companies, Galei HaMaavir and Ihud Regev. It demutualised
Demutualization

Demutualization is the process by which a customer-owned mutual organization or co-operative changes legal form to a joint stock company. It is sometimes called stocking or privatization....
, becoming a limited company
Limited company

A limited company in the United Kingdom is a corporation whose limited liability is Private company limited by shares , which is the most common form of privately held company....
 in May 2002.

Dan provides bus service six days a week. From Friday afternoon until after Sunset Saturday night, service is suspended in observance of the Jewish Sabbath
Shabbat

Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
. Dan buses run until approximately 23:30 p.m. and resume service in the early morning hours.

See also

  • Egged Bus Cooperative
    Egged Bus Cooperative

    Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd is the largest bus company in Israel, and the second largest in the world . A cooperative owned by its members, Egged employs 6227 workers and has 3105 buses for more than 1038 service routes and 3984 alternative routes all over Israel....
  • Kavim
    Kavim

    Kavim is an Israeli bus company. It was founded in 2000 and provided lines in the eastern Gush Dan region - the towns/cities Kiryat Ono, Petah Tikva, Or Yehuda, Giv'atayim and others....
  • Transport in Tel Aviv
    Transport in Tel Aviv

    Seen as the hub of the Transport in Israel in terms of road, rail, and air transport, transport in Tel Aviv is regarded as very good. The Roads in Israel partly centers around the city with some of the country's largest highways passing through or running to the city....


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