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In 2008, Arabs made up 53% of the Northern District's population, making it Israel's only district with an Arab majority. 44% of the Arab population lives in this district. [16] Nazareth is the largest city, with a population of approximately 66,000. [16] One of the Arab groups living in the Northern District are the Galilee Bedouin.
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.
As of 2022, Muslims are the largest religious minority in Israel, accounting for 18.1% of the country's total population. [1] Most of this figure is represented by the Arab citizens of Israel , [ 2 ] who are the country's largest ethnic minority, but there is a notable non-Arab Muslim populace, such as that of the Circassians .
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). [1]
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 .
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%).
Ramla (pictured in 1895) was founded by Sulayman at the start of the 8th century and became the capital of his district. The Umayyad prince and governor of Palestine, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, founded Ramla as the seat of his administration, [6] [7] [8] replacing Lydda, the Muslims' original provincial capital.
Ma'alot-Tarshiha (Hebrew: מעלות-תרשיחא; Arabic: معالوت ترشيحا) is a city in the North District in Israel, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Nahariya, and about 600 metres (1,969 feet) above sea level.