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Rahat (Arabic: رهط, Hebrew: רַהַט) is an Arab Bedouin city in the Southern District of Israel. In 2022, it had a population of 79,064. [2] As such, it is the largest Bedouin city in Israel, and the only one to have city status. Rahat is one of seven Bedouin townships in the Negev desert with approved plans and developed infrastructure.
This is a list of the largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states, based on the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report (2010 population estimates from the report's 2007 revision).
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.
At the end of 2021, the Muslim population of Israel was estimated to be 18.1% of all residents in the country, enumerating 1.707 million. [20] The growth rate for Muslims in Israel annually was 2.1% in 2021, and the total fertility rate (TFR) fell from 3.16 births per woman in 2019, to 2.99 births per woman by 2020.
Nazareth is the largest Arab city in Israel. [116] In 2009, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Nazareth's Arab population was 69% Muslim and 31% Christian. [ 117 ] The greater Nazareth metropolitan area had a population of 210,000, including 125,000 Arabs (59%) and 85,000 Jews (41%).
This map includes East Jerusalem and Golan Heights, neither of which are internationally recognized parts of Israel. Arab localities in Israel include all population centers with a 50% or higher Arab population in Israel. East Jerusalem and Golan Heights are not internationally recognized parts of Israel proper but have been included in this list.
Largest cities in Israel. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics [1] Rank Name District Pop. Rank Name District Pop. Jerusalem Tel Aviv: 1: Jerusalem: Jerusalem: 981,711 ...
The convention of a "Muslim Quarter", in what was then a Muslim-majority city, may have originated in its current form in the 1841 British Royal Engineers map of Jerusalem, [3] or at least Reverend George Williams' subsequent labelling of it. [4] The city had previously been divided into many more harat (Arabic: حارَة, romanized: Hārat ...