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Israel Cities by Population

135 cities shown of 135 total Israel cities that are over 1,000 in population...

1. Jerusalem 714,000
2. West Jerusalem 400,000
3. Haifa 267,300
4. Tel Aviv 250,000
5. Ashdod 224,656
6. Rishon LeZiyyon 220,492
7. Petah Tikva 188,900
8. Beersheba 186,600
9. Netanya 171,676
10. Holon 165,787
11. Bene Beraq 144,663
12. Bat Yam 128,979
13. Ramat Gan 128,095
14. Ashqelon 105,995
15. Yafo 100,000
16. Herzliyya 83,600
17. Kfar Saba 80,773
18. Hadera 75,854
19. Bet Shemesh 67,100
20. Lod 66,589
21. Nazareth 64,800
22. Ramla 63,860
23. Nahariyya 50,273
24. Qiryat Ata 48,966
25. Giv`atayim 48,000
26. Qiryat Gat 47,450
27. `Akko 45,603
28. Eilat 45,588
29. Karmi'el 44,382
30. Hod HaSharon 43,185
31. Umm el Fahm 41,030
32. `Afula `Illit 40,000
33. Tiberias 39,790
34. Qiryat Motzkin 39,404
35. Ness Ziona 38,700
36. Qiryat Yam 37,639
37. Qiryat Bialik 36,551
38. Ramat HaSharon 36,137
39. Old City 36,000
40. Dimona 33,558
41. Et Taiyiba 32,978
42. Yavne 31,774
43. Or Yehuda 30,802
44. Zefat 27,816
45. Mevo Betar 27,267

46. Tamra 25,917
47. Daliyat el Karmil 25,000
48. Migdal Ha`Emeq 24,800
49. Sakhnin 24,596
50. Netivot 24,564
51. Ofaqim 24,311
52. Qiryat Shemona 22,035
53. maalot Tarshiha 21,400
54. Nesher 21,245
55. Tirah 20,786
56. Sederot 20,228
57. Tirat Karmel 18,993
58. Maghar 18,915
59. Giv`at Shemu'el 18,500
60. Kafr Kanna 17,606
61. Judeida 17,530
62. Kafr Qasim 17,303
63. Qalansuwa 16,898
64. Bet She'an 16,800
65. Er Reina 15,621
66. Kafr Manda 15,014
67. Gan Yavne 14,975
68. Gedera 14,575
69. Kefar Yona 13,320
70. Ganne Tiqwa 12,213
71. Iksal 11,398
72. Azor 10,108
73. Nahf 10,105
74. Beit Jann 10,002
75. El Fureidis 9,999
76. Kabul 9,497
77. Even Yehuda 9,282
78. Tel Mond 8,725
79. Yeroham 8,631
80. Rekhasim 8,513
81. Deir Hanna 8,417
82. Kafr Yasif 8,308
83. Dabburiya 8,305
84. Mazkeret Batya 8,034
85. Bu`eina 7,900
86. Bene 'Ayish 7,763
87. Jaljulya 7,505
88. Bir el Maksur 7,106
89. Basmat Tab`un 6,300
90. Pardesiyya 6,254

91. Lehavim 6,000
92. Abu Ghaush 5,707
93. Shelomi 5,608
94. Kefar Weradim 5,608
95. Bet Dagan 5,604
96. Ramat Yishay 5,431
97. Hurfeish 5,308
98. Buqei`a 5,200
99. Shibli 4,800
100. Kefar Habad 4,771
101. Mizpe Ramon 4,769
102. Zur Hadassa 4,700
103. `Atlit 4,500
104. Qesarya 4,500
105. `Eilabun 4,400
106. El Mazra`a 3,900
107. Sajur 3,547
108. Savyon 3,434
109. Har Adar 3,300
110. Kafr Kama 2,990
111. Mafshatah 2,985
112. Yavne'el 2,900
113. Kaukab Abu el Hija 2,800
114. Elyakhin 2,728
115. Mi`ilya 2,700
116. Jish 2,684
117. `Uzeir 2,591
118. Rosh Pinna 2,492
119. Sulam 2,426
120. Zur Moshe 2,400
121. Kafr Misr 2,400
122. Kefar Tavor 2,323
123. Esh Sheikh Dannun 2,305
124. Nordiyya 2,264
125. Nehalim 2,061
126. Ibtin 2,020
127. Sallama 1,800
128. Timrat 1,789
129. Kefar Shemaryahu 1,774
130. Bet Yizhaq 1,674
131. Nein 1,588
132. Rumat Heib 1,588
133. Metulla 1,466
134. `En Boqeq 1,400
135. Midreshet Ben-Gurion 1,100

Israel History

Over the past three thousand years, the name Israel"" has meant in common and religious usage both the Land of Israel and the entire Jewish nation. According to the Bible, Jacob is renamed Israel after successfully wrestling with an angel of God."

The earliest archaeological artifact to mention Israel"" is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt, where it refers to the people of the land. The modern country was named Medinat Yisrael, or the State of Israel, after other proposed names, including Eretz Israel, Zion, and Judea, were rejected. In the early weeks of independence, the government chose the term ""Israeli"" to denote a citizen of Israel, with the formal announcement made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Sharett."

The Land of Israel, known in Hebrew as Eretz Yisrael, has been sacred to the Jewish people since Biblical times. According to the Torah, the Land of Israel was promised to the three Patriarchs of the Jewish people, by God, as their homeland; scholars have placed this period in the early 2nd millennium BCE. According to the traditional view, around the 11th century BCE, the first of a series of Israelite kingdoms and states established rule over the region; these Israelite kingdoms and states ruled intermittently for the following one thousand years. The sites holiest to Judaism are located within Israel.