Cities
Within Israel's system of local government, an urban municipality can be granted a city council by the Israeli Interior Ministry when its population exceeds 20,000. The term "city" does not generally refer to local councils or urban agglomerations, even though a defined city often contains only a small portion of an urban area or metropolitan area's population.
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Largest cities or towns of Israel Israel Central Bureau of Statistics |
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| Rank | City name | District | Pop. | ||||||
Jerusalem
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1 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | 780,200 | Haifa
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| 2 | Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv | 404,000 | ||||||
| 3 | Haifa | Haifa | 266,900 | ||||||
| 4 | Rishon LeZion | Central | 229,600 | ||||||
| 5 | Petah Tikva | Central | 210,300 | ||||||
| 6 | Ashdod | Southern | 208,500 | ||||||
| 7 | Beersheba | Southern | 194,800 | ||||||
| 8 | Netanya | Central | 185,000 | ||||||
| 9 | Holon | Tel Aviv | 183,100 | ||||||
| 10 | Bnei Brak | Tel Aviv | 156,700 | ||||||
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Israel
Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.”
—Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)