Hadera is a city of approximately 80,000 people along the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal plain, 45 kilometers north of Tel Aviv and roughly the same distance south of Haifa. The city’s jurisdiction covers 53,000 dunams, which makes it the country’s fourth largest city in terms of area. Hadera was founded in 1891 by Eastern European immigrants [...]
Type of Community: City Region: Center Religious Percent: 15 English Speaking Percent: 5 One of Israel’s truly beautiful seaside resorts is also an eclectic mix of Jewish ethnicities. Named for American philanthropist Nathan Strauss, the 80 year-old city has a wide mix of nationalities and tourists: 30% of the city’s population are Olim from many [...]
Considered to be the Manhattan or London of Israel,Tel Aviv is the city that never sleeps. It is Israel’s center of the arts, finance, law, and business, and it offers a wide variety of lifestyles, cultures and around- the-clock places of interest to visit. Local Employment Tel Aviv is the financial center of the country [...]
Type of Community: City Region: South Religious Percent: 30 English Speaking Percent: 2 Be’er Sheva is the city of David Ben Gurion’s dreams: it flowered from a barren desert into a modern city, with a world-class hospital and university, and a burgeoning hi-tech sector. This prosperous university-city has commercial and industrial centers serving 600,000 citizens [...]
Type of Community: City Region: Jerusalem Religious Percent: 35 English Speaking Percent: 15 Givat Zeev was established in 1983 with an initial group of 100 founding families, and it has since grown to include over 11,000 residents. The community is expected to expand to a size of 20,000 residents by the end of this decade. [...]
Type of Community: Yishuv Region: South Religious Percent: 100 English Speaking Percent: 10 Even Shmuel was founded over 30 years ago, and includes 100 families. A planned expansion will bring in another 300 families, who will be incorporated into the current life of the Moshav. The new development is not viewed as a separate entity, [...]
Type of Community: Yishuv Region: South Religious Percent: 20 English Speaking Percent: 10 Meitar was established in 1984 by a mixed group of secular and religious Jews, and the feeling of openness and acceptance is a trademark of community until this day. This southern gem of a town is a friendly community where everyone makes [...]
Type of Community: Yishuv Region: Gush Etzion Religious Percent: 100 English Speaking Percent: 30 When asked to describe their community, residents of Elazar choose words like “warm”, “hevrati” (social), and “diverse”. Each of these words captures a different quality of this Yishuv. Yishuv Elazar began as a cooperative Moshav established by North American Olim in [...]
Type of Community: Neighborhood Region: Jerusalem Nachlaot, one of Jerusalem’s older, more colorful neighborhoods retains much of its 19th century architecture charm with narrow alleyways and cobblestone streets. Nachlaot was home to Eastern Jewish families, with each group having its own synagogue (many still exist today, the neighborhood has 100 synagogues), and housing built around [...]
Type of Community: Neighborhood Region: Jerusalem Officially known as Ramot Alon, the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot – as it has become known – is a wonderful choice for Olim who want to be near Jerusalem but do not like the noisy lifestyle of a city. With its relatively affordable housing, smaller neighborhoods and close proximity [...]
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