City

Turning point in city rankings: Where are residents most satisfied with their municipality?

CBS survey presents the local government satisfaction map: Petah Tikva and Rishon Lezion lead, and in Beersheba and Bnei Brak, nearly half the residents believe performance is not good.

Bike path in Tel Aviv.
Night view of skyscrapers in the skyline of Tel Aviv, on July 6, 2025

Kfar Saba dominates among Israeli cities in quality of life rankings - study

How to Build a City That Lets Everyone Live Better.

How do you build a city that lets everyone live better? Real estate women respond

Berlin on foot: Why free walking tours are the city’s best-kept secret


City notes: Decisive Crusader battle reenacted in Galilee

A round-up of news from around the nation.

Staging the 12th-century Battle of Hattin

Making room for Fleur

"For the moment I am mostly learning."

New city council member Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

‘חָרִיש’, עִיר חֲדָשָה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל

Harish, new city in Israel

Charish

Proposal to couple Boulder with Nablus as sister cities draws fire

This is the second time the pairing has been proposed.

Hilltop view of the Palestinian refugee camp Balata on the edge of the West Bank city of Nablus

Diyarbakir: The City of Resistance, the City that Refuses to Die

The Jerusalem Post

Mayor Biton: Social warrior

Yerucham is in the midst of a makeover, transforming from a dusty development town into a small boom town.

Yerucham Mayor Michael Biton

Like roses among the thorns

The no-win situation of city center restaurants and bars, which is compounded by municipal directives.

Raphael Kohn (right) washes the street outside his Nahalat Shiva restaurant this past week, together with a 90-year-old shoemaker who has had a store in the area for 35 years

Conflict of interest

This sounds like a reasonable reshuffling of a city council upon reaching the second half of its term.

Tamir Nir

This week in Jerusalem 450460

Peggy Cidor's round-up of city affairs.

S.Y. Agnon

Petah Tikva, every day

Though not Israel’s most glamorous city, the people who live there really like it.

A monument commemorates the valuable assistance lent to the city in its early years by Baron Edmond de Rothschild