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
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—Alexander Trocchi (1925–1983)
“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)