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Israel has 16 cities with populations over 100,000, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo. [2] In all, there are 77 Israeli localities granted "municipalities" (or "city") status by the Ministry of the Interior, including four Israeli settlements in the West Bank . [ 3 ]
Rank Name District Pop. Rank Name District Pop. Jerusalem Tel Aviv: 1: Jerusalem: Jerusalem: 981,711 a: 11: Ramat Gan: Tel Aviv: 172,486 Haifa Rishon LeZion: 2: Tel ...
Notes. 1 The population of "Jews and others" includes Jews, non-Arab Christians and those not classified by religion.; 2 The core area includes the city of Haifa.; 3 The inner ring consists of the Haifa District and includes the cities Kiryat Bialik, Kiryat Yam, Kiryat Motzkin, Kiryat Ata, Tirat Carmel and Nesher, as well as a multitude of smaller towns (local councils).
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Haifa is Israel's third-largest city, consisting of 103,000 households, [93] or a population of 290,306. Immigrants from the former Soviet Union constitute 25% of Haifa's population, [ 94 ] thus making Russian one of the three main spoken languages of the city.
It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Both the State of Israel and the State of Palestine claim Jerusalem as their capital city. Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there, and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees it ...
In 2008, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel collapsed, resulting in the three-week Gaza War. [269] [270] In what Israel described as a response to over a hundred Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli cities, [271] Israel began an operation in the Gaza Strip in 2012, lasting eight days. [272]