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)
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: “Here,” he said, “are the walls of the city,” meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)