It contains several development towns, including Dimona, Arad and Mitzpe Ramon, as well as a number of small Bedouin cities, including Rahat and Tel as-Sabi.

Several satellite communities have also been established in small towns in Israel, such as Arad in the Negev desert, Hatzor HaGlilit in the Galilee, Kiryat HaRim Levin in Tel Aviv, Beit Shemesh and Kiryat Gat.

Ruins of ancient Tel Arad

As the second-largest city in Israel in terms of jurisdiction, Arad contains a number of large public places and facilities, such as the ruins of Tel Arad, the Arad Park, an airfield serving domestic flights, and Israel's first legal race circuit.

Arad is named after the Biblical Canaanite town located at Tel Arad ( a Biblical archaeology site famous for the discovery of ostraca ) which is located approximately west of modern Arad.

The Bible ( Judges 1: 16 ) describes it as a Canaanite stronghold whose king kept the Israelites from moving from the Negev to the Judean Mountains, although Tel Arad was destroyed over 1, 200 years before the arrival of the Israelites.

However, Shoshenq I's chronicles seem to mention a settlement in Tel Arad.

Production sites included Tel Arad, Ein HaBesor, Rafah, and Tel Erani.

* Tel Arad

* Arad, Israel, or Tel Arad

Tel Arad () or ' old ' Arad is located west of the Dead Sea, about 10 km west of modern Arad in an area surrounded by mountain ridges which is known as the Arad Plain.

Tel Arad was excavated during 18 seasons by Ruth Amiran and Yohanan Aharoni.

Excavations at Tel Arad

Habitation of Tel Arad and the upper citadel did not end with the Babylonian siege.

In 1926 his remains were moved to Tel Aviv.

* Israel Finkelstein ( 1949 -): Israeli archaeologist and Professor at Tel Aviv University, an advocate for re-dating remains previously ascribed to King Solomon to the rule of the Omrides.

In 2005, Israeli archaeologist Yotam Tepper of Tel-Aviv University discovered the remains of a church, believed to be from the third century, a few hundred meters south of the Tel on the grounds of the Megiddo Prison.

The remains of Templer buildings of Sarona ( colony ) | Sarona in HaKirya, Tel Aviv

However, financial difficulties forced the abandonment of the project, and Shalom Meir remains the only subway station in Tel Aviv, disconnected from other transport links.

The Tel Aviv University group also suggested that the walls unearthed by Mazar do not belong to a single building, arguing that the more substantial, more regular walls to the west of the site align with a larger rectangular structure, including upper parts of the Stepped Stone Structure, and a mikveh ritual bath believed to have been used in the Hasmonean period ; while what they consider the flimsier irregular remains on the eastern side of the site should be treated as a separate entity.

Israel will also return the remains of the bombers that committed the bombings on two buses in Beersheba in 2004 killing 16 people, the Stage night club bombing, the attack on the open-air Hadera market as well as the attackers of the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv who killed eight hostages.

Jenin was known in ancient times as the village of " Ein-Jenin " or " Tel Jenin ".

* Tel Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley

Remnants of ancient Achziv, now known as Tel Achziv, are located on a sandstone mound between two creeks, Kziv creek on the north and Shaal creek on the south, close to the border with Lebanon.

This ancient Egyptian site lies predominantly in the northern Cairo suburb of Al-Matariyyah, and also covers the districts of Ain Shams and Tel Al-Hisn east of the Nile .< ref >

Later under oath, the government ’ s chief scientific witness, Professor Yuval Goren of Tel Aviv University admitted on cross-examination that there was original ancient patina in the word “ Jesus .”

Arsuf (, ) also known as Arsur or Apollonia, was an ancient city and fortress located in Israel, about 15 kilometres north of modern Tel Aviv, on a cliff above the Mediterranean Sea.

* Tel Hazor, site of an ancient fortified city in the Upper Galilee, among the most important Caananite towns, and the largest ancient ruin in modern Israel and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Tel Gezer Excavation and Publication Project is a multi-disciplinary field project investigating the Iron Age history of the ancient biblical city of Tel Gezer.

The Bible Places web site says it is generally accepted that Tel Haror is the site of ancient Gerar.

Abu Shusha was located on the slope of Tel Jazar, which is commonly identified with the ancient city of Gezer.

Revealed the similarity of artifacts Maykop culture with the found recently in the course of excavations of the ancient city of Tel Khazneh l in northern Syria, the construction of which dates back to 4000 bc.

Ashdod-Yam is an Iron Age archaeological site on the Mediterranean coast of Israel in southern part of the modern city of Ashdod and about 5 kilometres southwest of Tel Ashdod ( site of one of the ancient cities of the Philistines ).

Tel Shikmona () is an ancient tell ( mound ) situated near the sea coast on the southern entrance to the modern city of Haifa, Israel.

Tel Hazor (), also Hatzor, present day Tell el-Qedah, is a tell above the site of ancient Hazor.

In January 1978, a modern community was established adjacent to the ancient biblical site, Tel Shilo.

* Amthaguda: Amthagad fort of ancient Tel river civilisation

It was formerly known as " Gamma Telescopii " ( γ Tel ) and " Fuyue " （ 傅說 ） in ancient China.

Warsaw is my city, not Tel Aviv ''.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

The city is located northeast of Gaza and the Mediterranean Sea, west of Amman, Jordan, southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel and south of Jerusalem.

The first entirely Hebrew-speaking city, Ahuzat Bayit was established in 1909 ( later renamed Tel Aviv ).

A force of nearly a dozen Fatah fighters landed their boats near a major coastal road connecting the city of Haifa with Tel Aviv-Yafo.

At this time the Canaanite area seemed divided between two confederacies, one centred upon Tel Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley, the second on the more northerly city of Kadesh on the Orontes River.

Ashkelon ( also Ashqelon and Ascalon ; ; ; Latin: Ascalonia ; Akkadian: Isqalluna ) is a coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip.

The Nahariya – Tel Aviv Coastal Railway main line of Israel Railways runs along the coast of the Gulf of Haifa and has six stations within the city.

In some cities, such as Stockholm, Helsinki, Tel Aviv, Austin, Texas, and Copenhagen, there are no established gay villages, partly due to the differing social dynamics of these cities ( less social segregation within the city ), but also due to earlier and greater social acceptance of the gay community within mainstream society.

Thus the major modern Israeli city of Tel Aviv means " Spring Hill ".

Antipatris, one of two places known as Tel Afek (), was a city built by Herod the Great, and named in honour of his father, Antipater II of Judea.

Of the nineteen proper names that the book of Joshua gives to guide us, only Bethlehem ( Beit lahm, seven miles northwest of Nazareth ) can be identified with certainty, although the archaeological site Tel Hanaton is associated with the city Hanaton listed as the boundary with Asher.

Scheduled domestic air service is available between Tel Aviv's two airports and Haifa, Rosh Pina, the Golan Heights, and the southern city of Eilat.

Hathor was worshipped in Canaan in the eleventh century BC, which at that time was ruled by Egypt, at her holy city of Hazor, or Tel Hazor which the Old Testament claims was destroyed by Joshua ( Joshua 11: 13, 21 ).

* Modi ' in: Intercity and urban buses in a city located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Petah Tikva (,, " Opening of Hope ") known as Em HaMoshavot (" Mother of the Moshavot "), is a city in the Center District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.

Nowadays, with a population of over two hundred thousand inhabitants Petah Tikva is the third most populous city in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area (" Gush Dan ").

Among the acts of sabotage al-Husseini attempted to implement, Michael Bar Zohar reports a chemical warfare assault, on the second largest and predominantly Jewish city in Palestine, Tel Aviv, nicknamed operation ATLAS.

The best-known occurrence of the word in the name of a living city is in Tel Aviv, Israel's second-most populous city.

As of 2012, Dubai is the 22nd most expensive city in the world, surpassing London ( 25th ) and is the most expensive city in the Middle East, surpassing Tel Aviv ( 31st ).

Holon ( ) is a city on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv, Israel.