List of cities in Israel

Jerusalem

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Haifa

Rishon LeZion

Ashdod

Beersheba

Petah Tikva

Netanya

Ashkelon

Rehovot

Beit Shemesh

Kfar Saba

This article lists the 73 localities in Israel that the Israeli Ministry of Interior has designated as a city council. It excludes the 4 Israeli settlements in the West Bank designated as cities, but occupied East Jerusalem is included within Jerusalem.

The list is based on the current index of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Within Israel's system of local government, an urban municipality can be granted a city council by the Interior Ministry when its population exceeds 20,000.^[1] 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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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 Negev, and Harish, originally a small town currently being built into a large city. The area and population of Jerusalem includes that of East Jerusalem which has been de facto annexed by Israel and incorporated within Jerusalem's municipal borders under the Jerusalem Law. This, however, is not recognized by the international community who regard East Jerusalem to be Palestinian territory held under Israeli occupation.^[4]^[5] If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second most populous city with 452,000 residents after Jerusalem with 919,000; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city before West Jerusalem with around 350,000.

The following table lists all Israeli cities by name, district, population, and area, according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics:

Name	District	First settlement	Population estimate, 2022^[6]	Population census, 2008^[7]	Change, 2008– –2022	Area, km² ^[8]	Density, per km² ^[9]	Socio- economic index^[10]
Acre^{[cbs 1]}	North	Bronze Age	51,420	46,100	+11.54%	13.5	3,362.0	−0.395
Afula	North	Bronze Age	61,519	40,200	+53.03%	26.9	1,611.7	−0.028
Arad	South	1962	28,170	23,400	+20.38%	93.1	195.9	0.287
Arraba^{[cbs 2]}	North	N/A	27,115	20,600	+31.63%	8.25	3,097.1	−0.945
Ashdod	South	1956^{[note 1]}	226,827	204,300	+11.03%	47.2	4,783.9	−0.109
Ashkelon^{[cbs 3]}	South	Neolithic	153,138	110,600	+38.46%	47.8	2,964.8	-0.032
Baqa al-Gharbiyye	Haifa	Middle Ages	31,397	N/A	N/A	16.4	3,152.1	−0.736
Bat Yam	Tel Aviv	1926	128,465	130,300	−1.41%	8.2	15,758.4	−0.025
Beersheba^{[cbs 4]}	South	1900^{[note 2]}	214,162	193,400	+10.74%	117.5	1,751.7	0.035
Beit She'an^{[cbs 5]}	North	Neolithic	19,073	16,900	+12.86%	7.3	2,379.9	−0.277
Beit Shemesh^{[cbs 6]}	Jerusalem	1950	154,694	72,700	+112.78%	34.3	2,866.6	−1.149
Bnei Brak^{[cbs 7]}	Tel Aviv	1924	218,357	151,800	+43.85%	7.1	25,709.4	−1.304
Dimona	South	1955	36,776	32,400	+13.51%	29.9	193.7	−0.235
Eilat^{[cbs 8]}	South	1951	53,151	47,300	+12.37%	84.8	509.6	0.247
El'ad	Center	1998	49,487	33,900	+45.98%	2.8	13,138.6	−1.493
Giv'at Shmuel^{[cbs 9]}	Center	1944	28,994	21,000	+38.07%	2.6	9,978.1	1.124
Givatayim^{[cbs 10]}	Tel Aviv	1922	61,924	52,100	+18.86%	3.3	18,058.2	1.417
Hadera	Haifa	1891	103,041	79,400	+29.77%	49.4	1,809.2	0.255
Haifa	Haifa	Antiquity	290,306	264,300	+9.84%	63.7	4,331.4	0.652
Herzliya^{[cbs 11]}	Tel Aviv	1924	106,741	86,300	+23.69%	21.6	4,291.0	1.373
Hod HaSharon	Center	1924	65,614	46,300	+41.71%	21.6	3,058.9	1.485
Holon	Tel Aviv	1935	197,957	176,300	+12.28%	18.9	10,017.7	0.509
Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Neolithic (East Jerusalem) mid-1800s (West Jerusalem)	981,711	759,700	+29.22%	125.2	7,014.1	−0.802
Kafr Qasim^{[cbs 12]}	Center	19th century	25,285	18,400	+37.42%	8.7	2,391.5	−0.841
Karmiel^{[cbs 13]}	North	1964	47,317	44,200	+7.05%	19.2	2,056.3	0.309
Kfar Saba^{[cbs 14]}	Center	1903	101,556	82,800	+22.65%	14.2	6,831.0	1.191
Kfar Yona^{[cbs 15]}	Center	1932	29,450	16,500	+78.48%	11.0	1,962.4	0.786
Kiryat Ata^{[cbs 16]}	Haifa	1925	61,142	50,400	+21.31%	16.7	3,253.0	0.249
Kiryat Bialik^{[cbs 17]}	Haifa	1934	44,620	37,200	+19.95%	8.2	4,650.1	0.567
Kiryat Gat^{[cbs 18]}	South	1954	64,437	47,500	+35.66%	16.3	3,328.2	−0.378
Kiryat Malakhi^{[cbs 19]}	South	1950	25,705	20,500	+25.39%	4.6	4,741.2	−0.594
Kiryat Motzkin^{[cbs 20]}	Haifa	1934	48,001	38,100	+25.99%	3.8	10,612.0	0.590
Kiryat Ono^{[cbs 21]}	Tel Aviv	1939	43,241	30,000	+44.14%	4.1	8,557.8	1.513
Kiryat Shmona^{[cbs 22]}	North	1949	22,492	23,200	−3.05%	14.2	1,595.8	−0.014
Kiryat Yam^{[cbs 23]}	Haifa	1941	41,095	37,700	+9.01%	4.3	8,568.6	0.018
Lod	Center	Neolithic	85,351	69,400	+22.98%	12.2	6,078.3	−0.448
Ma'alot-Tarshiha	North	1963	22,521	20,600	+9.33%	6.8	2,303.0	0.024
Migdal HaEmek^{[cbs 24]}	North	1953	27,088	23,900	+13.34%	7.6	2,876.6	−0.273
Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut ^{[cbs 25]}	Center	1985	99,171	69,300	+43.10%	50.2	1,862.5	1.351
Nahariya^{[cbs 26]}	North	1935	63,947	51,300	+24.65%	10.2	4,941.8	0.436
Nazareth	North	Bronze Age	78,007	71,700	+8.80%	14.1	5,357.9	−0.558
Nesher	Haifa	1923	23,761	23,300	+1.98%	12.8	1,828.9	0.783
Ness Ziona^{[cbs 27]}	Center	1883	50,341	36,100	+39.45%	15.6	3,071.5	1.265
Netanya	Center	1929	233,104	180,100	+29.43%	29.0	6,807.7	0.240
Netivot	South	1956	46,374	26,100	+77.68%	5.6	2,874.7	−0.760
Nof HaGalil	North	1957	44,184	41,400	+6.72%	32.5	1,224.4	0.055
Ofakim^{[cbs 28]}	South	1955	35,506	24,000	+47.94%	10.3	2,565.0	−0.757
Or Akiva^{[cbs 29]}	Haifa	1951	20,874	16,000	+30.46%	3.5	3,165.3	−0.097
Or Yehuda	Tel Aviv	1955	38,854	33,900	+14.61%	5.1	5,477.7	0.133
Petah Tikva^{[cbs 30]}	Center	1878	255,387	200,300	+27.50%	35.9	6,626.5	0.655
Qalansawe	Center	Middle Ages	24,205	18,200	+32.99%	8.4	2,603.2	−1.011
Ra'anana^{[cbs 31]}	Center	1922	80,260	68,300	+17.51%	14.9	4,833.8	1.462
Rahat	South	1972	79,064	50,000	+58.13%	19.6	3,283.9	−1.848
Ramat Gan	Tel Aviv	1921	172,486	143,600	+20.12%	13.2	9,376.1	1.041
Ramat HaSharon	Tel Aviv	1923	48,181	39,000	+23.54%	16.8	2,708.3	1.796
Ramla	Center	8th century	79,132	65,700	+20.44%	11.9	6,252.2	−0.333
Rehovot	Center	1890	150,748	111,100	+35.69%	23.0	5,712.4	0.629
Rishon LeZion^{[cbs 32]}	Center	1882	260,453	226,800	+14.84%	58.7	4,212.6	0.886
Rosh HaAyin	Center	1949	73,678	37,900	+94.40%	24.4	2,868.0	0.578
Safed^{[cbs 33]}	North	Bronze Age	38,029	29,600	+28.48%	29.2	1,123.5	−1.011
Sakhnin	North	Bronze Age	33,188	25,100	+32.22%	9.8	3,062.2	−0.740
Sderot^{[cbs 34]}	South	1951	33,002	20,700	+59.43%	4.5	3,788.0	−0.223
Shefa-'Amr^{[cbs 35]}	North	Bronze Age	43,543	35,700	+21.97%	19.8	2,065.0	−0.784
Tamra	North	N/A	35,834	28,100	+27.52%	29.3	1,118.1	−0.983
Tayibe	Center	N/A	46,020	35,700	+28.91%	18.7	2,198.7	−0.878
Tel Aviv-Yafo	Tel Aviv	Neolithic (Jaffa) 1887 (Neve Tzedek)	474,530	402,600	+17.87%	51.8	8,473.0	1.221
Tiberias	North	20	48,472	41,600	+16.52%	10.9	2,663.5	−0.379
Tira^{[cbs 36]}	Center	N/A	27,802	22,200	+25.23%	11.9	2,128.7	−0.469
Tirat Carmel^{[cbs 37]}	Haifa	N/A	28,753	18,600	+54.59%	5.6	3,425.4	−0.138
Umm al-Fahm	Haifa	N/A	58,665	45,000	+30.37%	22.3	2,053.4	−1.294
Yavne	Center	Bronze Age	56,232	32,800	+71.44%	10.7	2,690.9	0.455
Yehud-Monosson	Center	N/A	31,405	26,200	+19.87%	5.0	5,862.3	1.034
Yokneam Illit^{[cbs 38]}	North	1950	24,617	19,000	+29.56%	7.4	2,649.1	0.800

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