Jerusalem was the largest city in Israel with over *********** inhabitants as of the end of 2024. It was followed by Tel Aviv with almost half a million residents. Haifa was the third-largest city in the country, with just under ******* inhabitants.

Israel IL: Population in Largest City data was reported at 3,905,583.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,802,958.000 Person for 2016. Israel IL: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 1,701,658.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,905,583.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 738,158.000 Person in 1960. Israel IL: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table IL.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; ;

In 2022, the number of real estate transactions of new apartments in Jerusalem in Israel amounted to 2,195. The transactions in this city topped the list among the major cities in Israel. It was closely followed by the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo with 1,914 transactions of new apartments. The cities of Haifa and Bnei Brak round out the list with only 908 and 275 new apartment transactions, respectively.

Population in largest city in Israel was reported at 4495727 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Israel - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

In 2022, the average number of people per household in the city of Bnei Brak in Israel was ****. This city topped the list of people per household among large cities in Israel (******* or more people). In comparison, the national average number of people per household was ****, which put Bnei Brak, a city with a predominantly Orthodox Jewish population. The city of Tel Aviv-Yafo ends the list with an average of **** persons per household.

Israel IL: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 48.549 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 48.235 % for 2016. Israel IL: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 43.148 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 48.583 % in 1996 and a record low of 39.459 % in 1980. Israel IL: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table IL.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; Weighted average;

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in Israel was reported at 48.49 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Israel - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

In 2023, Haifa was the city with the largest population of Christians in Israel, with ****** residents who identify with the faith. The town with the second-highest number of Christians was Nazareth, with ****** members of the religion. Christians living in Jerusalem and the Northern town of Nof HaGalil also made up a sizeable portion of the community.

Jerusalem was the city with the largest population of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Israel in 2022, reaching ******* people. The community accounted for almost ** percent of the city's total population. The town with the second-highest number of Ultra-Orthodox Jews was Bnei Brak, with ******* residents. Beit Shemesh and Modi'in Illit also made up a sizable portion of the Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel.

Comprehensive analysis of job opportunities and employment distribution across all major Israeli cities including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, and other metropolitan areas with detailed location-specific data

Historical Hourly Weather Data

Who amongst us doesn't small talk about the weather every once in a while?
The goal of this dataset is to elevate this small talk to medium talk.

Just kidding, I actually originally decided to collect this dataset in order to demonstrate basic signal processing concepts, such as filtering, Fourier transform, auto-correlation, cross-correlation, etc..., (for a data analysis course I'm currently preparing).
I wanted to demonstrate these concepts on signals that we all have intimate familiarity with and hope that this way these concepts will be better understood than with just made up signals.

The weather is excellent for demonstrating these kinds of concepts as it contains periodic temporal structure with two very different periods (daily and yearly).

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Content

The dataset contains ~5 years of high temporal resolution (hourly measurements) data of various weather attributes, such as temperature, humidity, air pressure, etc.
This data is available for 30 US and Canadian Cities, as well as 6 Israeli cities.
I've organized the data according to a common time axis for easy use.
Each attribute has it's own file and is organized such that the rows are the time axis (it's the same time axis for all files), and the columns are the different cities (it's the same city ordering for all files as well).
Additionally, for each city we also have the country, latitude and longitude information in a separate file.

Acknowledgements

The dataset was aquired using Weather API on the OpenWeatherMap website, and is available under the ODbL License.

Inspiration

Weather data is both intrinsically interesting, and also potentially useful when correlated with other types of data.
For example, Wildfire spread is potentially related to weather conditions, demand for cabs is famously known to be correlated with weather conditions (here, here and here you can find NYC cab ride data), and use of city bikes is probably also correlated with weather in interesting ways (check out this Austin dataset, this SF dataset, this Montreal dataset, and this NYC dataset).
Traffic is also probably related to weather.
Another potentially interesting source of correlation is between weather and crime. Here are a few crime datasets on kaggle of cities present in this weather dataset: Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Austin, NYC

There are many other potentially interesting connections between everyday life and the weather that we can explore together with the help of this dataset. Have fun!

In 2023, Jerusalem was the city with the largest population of Muslim residents in Israel, reaching ******* people. This represented about ** percent of the city's total population. The town with the second-highest number of Muslims was Rahat, with ****** members of the religion. Rahat is a predominantly Bedouin city in southern Israel. Umm al-Fahm and Nazareth, both located in northern Israel, make up a sizeable portion of the Muslim community in Israel.

Since Israel's establishment within the Palestinian state in 1948, the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis has been tense and, at times, violent. In the past few years, it has been reported that Israeli citizens have started settlements on Palestinian territory in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. This has led to increased physical violence between Israelis and Palestinians in these zones; however, when considering the technological advantage of Israel over Palestine, the deaths of Palestinians has grown exponentially in recent years. Many of these deaths are made up by non-military Palestinians that have gotten caught in cross fire or exploded by shells.To display this humanitarian crisis, I mapped the current Palestinian territories, separated by major cities. Each of these separated areas holds the total value of Palestinian deaths within from 2019 through the beginning of 2023. These totals can be viewed by clicking on the different colored polygons. Access to medical care is also a pressing issue in Palestine, especially when considering the uptake in violence, so I mapped the known medical sites in each region. The names and types (clinic, hospital, etc.) of these medical sites can be viewed if you click on the white circles containing green crosses.Along with these mapped features, you may view the city-regions containing the highest and lowest sums of death in the book marked section. I also created a bar graph that clearly displays the total number of deaths in each city-region from least to most.Palestinian Administrative Boundaries: Palestinian Subnational Administrative Boundaries obtained from The Humanitarian Data Exchange through a file download (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-pse). Health Sites: Palestinian medical sites taken from AmeriGEO using a Geojson URL (https://data.amerigeoss.org/ro/dataset/palestine-healthsites/resource/dce3fa8c-5c41-40d8-9a10-c77b6040f934?view_id=df9e8a7e-1e51-42ac-a2cc-6705bb97c642). Sum of Palestinian Deaths by City-Region: This site provides the Palestinian death count per city/region; I downloaded a file containing these counts. I then used the join tool to join the death count table to the administrative boundaries table using the mutual "City" field. I then used the summarize tool to sum the total number of deaths per city-region, using a graduated color map to display the different values (https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-incident?section=overall&tab=overview).

The two countries with the greatest shares of the world's Jewish population are the United States and Israel. The United States had been a hub of Jewish immigration since the nineteenth century, as Jewish people sought to escape persecution in Europe by emigrating across the Atlantic. The Jewish population in the U.S. is largely congregated in major urban areas, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with the New York metropolitan area being the city with the second largest Jewish population worldwide, after Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel is the world's only officially Jewish state, having been founded in 1948 following the first Arab-Israeli War. While Jews had been emigrating to the holy lands since the nineteenth century, when they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, immigration increased rapidly following the establishment of the state of Israel. Jewish communities in Eastern Europe who had survived the Holocaust saw Israel as a haven from persecution, while the state encouraged immigration from Jewish communities in other regions, notably the Middle East & North Africa. Smaller Jewish communities remain in Europe in countries such as France, the UK, and Germany, and in other countries which were hotspots for Jewish migration in the twentieth century, such as Canada and Argentina.

Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM2.5: Israel: Tel Aviv data was reported at 18.751 mcg/Cub m in 22 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 15.721 mcg/Cub m for 21 May 2025. Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM2.5: Israel: Tel Aviv data is updated daily, averaging 14.755 mcg/Cub m from Oct 2019 (Median) to 22 May 2025, with 2038 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 56.106 mcg/Cub m in 05 Mar 2025 and a record low of 4.981 mcg/Cub m in 31 May 2020. Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM2.5: Israel: Tel Aviv data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table CAMS.AQF: Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM2.5: by Cities. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: Ozone: Israel: Tel Aviv data was reported at 93.170 mcg/Cub m in 22 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 87.303 mcg/Cub m for 21 May 2025. Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: Ozone: Israel: Tel Aviv data is updated daily, averaging 62.306 mcg/Cub m from Oct 2019 (Median) to 22 May 2025, with 2038 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 115.437 mcg/Cub m in 15 Apr 2025 and a record low of 11.801 mcg/Cub m in 13 Dec 2021. Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: Ozone: Israel: Tel Aviv data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table CAMS.AQF: Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: Ozone: by Cities. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM10: Israel: Jerusalem data was reported at 35.012 mcg/Cub m in 22 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 32.552 mcg/Cub m for 21 May 2025. Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM10: Israel: Jerusalem data is updated daily, averaging 34.886 mcg/Cub m from Oct 2019 (Median) to 22 May 2025, with 2038 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 323.203 mcg/Cub m in 14 Mar 2025 and a record low of 8.965 mcg/Cub m in 06 Feb 2025. Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM10: Israel: Jerusalem data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Israel – Table CAMS.AQF: Air Quality Forecast: Contaminant Concentration: PM10: by Cities. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

The two towns in Israel with the largest Druze populations in 2022 were Daliyat al-Karmel and Yarka, with ****** and ****** Druze residents, respectively. Other concentration of the religious group resided in Maghar with ****** Druze residents, Beit Jann with ******. Majdal Shams, located in the Golan Heights, had ****** residents of whom 100 percent were Druze.

Apartment prices in Tel Aviv are the highest among the major cities in Israel. In the first quarter of 2023, the average cost of dwellings in Tel Aviv amounted to over *** million Israeli shekels (roughly **** million U.S. dollars). That was a slight rise compared to the previous quarter. The average price of apartments in the city slightly fluctuated but overall increased during the observed period. Due to the high housing prices in the city, many who wish to live in the city can afford only rented housing. The The number of households  living in rented dwellings in Tel Aviv amounted to ******* in 2020, making it the most common type of residency that year.  

High demand for housing in Tel Aviv 

Tel Aviv is the financial and cultural capital of Israel. Important companies in the Israeli economy and most of the influential cultural institutions in Israel are located in the city. As a result, many are interested in living in the city permanently, so housing prices remain high and even rise. Tel Aviv is the most important city in the Israeli high-tech industry, one of the most essential industries in the Israeli economy. As a result, many of the industry workers live in the city. In 2022, StartupBlink ranked Tel Aviv first in its list of leading cities for startups in Israel, with a score of 54.89. 

Residence in Jerusalem and Haifa is more affordable 

Jerusalem, the largest city in Israel, offers more affordable housing than Tel Aviv. In the first quarter of 2023, the aaverage price of apartments in Jerusalem amounted to just over *** million Israeli shekels (around ******* U.S. dollars). Although the price is lower than in Tel Aviv, many Israelis hesitate to reside there. Jerusalem has a traditional character; therefore, it has fewer leisure and nightlife options than Tel Aviv can offer. The standard price of dwellings in Haifa, the largest city in the northern part of Israel, is lower than both towns. In the same quarter, it reached almost **** million Israeli shekels (approximately ******* U.S. dollars).

Tel Aviv is commonly regarded as the economic and cultural capital of Israel. Due to the city's cosmopolitan atmosphere and the constant innovation approach, Tel Aviv has established itself as a local and international startup hub. According to the IVC Research Center, the number of startups in Tel Aviv amounted to ***** in 2021. This was a slight decrease compared to the previous year. However, since 2017, there has been an upward trend in the number of startups in this central city. In 2022, Startupblink ranked Tel Aviv first in its list of  best cities for startups in Israel, with a significantly higher score than other prominent cities in Israel, such as Jerusalem and Haifa. 

There is a diverse startup scene in Tel Aviv 

One of the characteristics of Tel Aviv as a hub for startups is the high diversity within the technology companies that operate there. Companies from various industries, such as cyber, IoT, FinTech, food tech, and more, are located in the city. Cyber ​​security is a particularly crucial industry in the technological sector in Tel Aviv. In 2021, the  number of cyber company exists in Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv reached **, which was more than any other industry within the sector. Furthermore, due to technological diversity, international companies, such as Google and Microsoft, have a significant presence in the city. In 2021, investment entities accounted for ** percent of the  multinational corporations in Tel Aviv, making this type of international company the most common.