Aerial photograph of the towns of the Krayot. The thoroughfare running through the center, Derech Akko, separates Kiryat Bialik (r) from Kiryat Motzkin (l). Kiryat Yam runs along the coast.

The Krayot or Qerayot (Hebrew: הקריות, "townships") (plural of Kirya) are a cluster of four small cities and two neighbourhoods of Haifa founded in the 1930s on the outskirts of the city of Haifa, Israel, in the Haifa Bay area.

The Krayot include Kiryat Yam (pop. 42,284), Kiryat Motzkin (pop. 48,748), Kiryat Bialik (pop. 36,200), Kiryat Ata (pop. 61,709), Kiryat Haim (pop. 29,000), and Kiryat Shmuel (pop. 7,740, as of 2023).

A plan was formulated in 2003, and again in 2016 by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, to merge the Krayot into one municipality. A proposed name for this city is Zvulun (after the biblical Zebulun, and the Zvulun Valley).[citation needed]

The Krayot

Cities

EmblemCityPopulationArea (in acres)Density (people per sq. km)First settlementRanking (Socio-economic index)
Kiryat Yam42,28412,1708,60619415
Kiryat Bialik50,08610,0004,63919346
Kiryat Motzkin48,7483,77810,61219346
Kiryat Ata61,70916,7063,47019256

Neighborhoods

NeighborhoodCityPopulationArea (in acres)Density (people per sq. km)First settlement
Kiryat HaimHaifa29,0004,5506,3601933
Kiryat ShmuelHaifa7,74075010,2561935

See also

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