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List. 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] Two more cities are planned: Kasif, a planned city to be built in the ...
Eilat (/ eɪ ˈ l ɑː t / ay-LAHT, UK also / eɪ ˈ l æ t / ay-LAT; Hebrew: אֵילַת ⓘ; Arabic: إِيلَات, romanized: Īlāt) is Israel's southernmost city, with a population of 53,151, [1] a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba.
1,037 m (3,402 ft) ( Mount Ramon) The Negev ( / ˈnɛɡɛv / NEG-ev; Hebrew: הַנֶּגֶב, romanized : hanNégev) or Negeb ( Arabic: ٱلنَّقَب, romanized : an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. 214,162), in the north.
The Southern District ( Hebrew: מחוז הדרום, Meḥoz HaDarom; Arabic: لواء الجنوب) is one of Israel 's six administrative districts, the largest in terms of land area but the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arava valley. The population of the Southern District is 1,086,240 and its ...
The city is home to the largest Moroccan and Karaite Jewish communities in Israel, [4] [5] and to the largest Georgian Jewish community in the world. [6] According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Ashdod had a population of 226,827 in 2022, [1] with an area of 47,242 dunams (47.242 km 2; 18.240 sq mi).
Sderot. / 31.52278°N 34.59528°E / 31.52278; 34.59528. Sderot ( Hebrew: שְׂדֵרוֹת, pronounced [sdeˈʁot], lit. 'boulevards'; Arabic: سديروت, sometimes Romanized as "Sederot" [ 2]) is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District of Israel. In 2022, it had a population of 33,002.
Bethlehem(/ˈbɛθlɪhɛm/; Arabic: بيت لحم, Bayt Laḥm, pronunciationⓘ; Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶםBēṯ Leḥem) is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bankof the State of Palestine, located about ten kilometres (six miles) south of Jerusalem. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate, and as of 2017 had a population of ...
In 1976, Israel recovered the site, which had been converted into an animal pen, and by 1989, a settler courtyard had been established there. [259] Today, the area along the north–south axis to the east comprises the modern city of Hebron (also called Upper Hebron, Khalil Foq). [260]