Jerusalem was the largest city in Israel with over one million 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 300,000 inhabitants.

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.

In the first quarter of 2023, the average price of dwellings in Haifa in Israel amounted to almost 1.64 million Israeli shekels (roughly 440,000 U.S. dollars). That was a slight increase compared to the previous quarter. The average price of residences in this city gradually increased during the observed period. Haifa is the third largest city in Israel.

In September 2022, the number of employee jobs in the hotel industry in Haifa in Israel amounted to 975. This figure represented an increase compared to that of the previous month (953 in August 2022), and an overall increase in the number of jobs compared to the beginning of the observed period in this city. Haifa is the third largest city in Israel after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo. The city also holds the busiest port in the country as well as the Bahai world center and gardens.

In 2022, 121,427 private vehicles accounted for the majority of motor vehicles in Haifa in northern Israel. This figure was followed by 10,214 trucks as well as 2,985 motorcycles registered in Israel's third-largest city. Haifa is an important industrial hub and holds one of the country's main seaway ports.