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 | ||||||
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“Lord, how long?”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 6:11.
Asking how long will the chastisement of the people last. God replies, “Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed man far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”
“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)
“The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It’s the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)