There are direct trains from Haifa to Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion International Airport, Nahariya, Akko, Kiryat Motzkin, Binyamina, Lod, Kiryat Gat, Beer Sheva and other locations.

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.

Kiryat Gat is named for Gath, one of the five major cities of the Philistines.

Kiryat Gat was established in 1955 as a development town by 18 families from Morocco.

In its early years, Kiryat Gat was populated mainly by Jews of Sephardi / Mizrahi origin.

In February, 2006, the cornerstone was laid for Intel's second Kiryat Gat plant, Fab 28, which is due to begin production in the second half of 2008.

Despite this, Kiryat Gat has one of Israel's highest unemployment rates.

According to CBS figures for 2000, there were 15, 257 salaried workers and 1, 152 self-employed persons in Kiryat Gat.

Kiryat Gat residential towers and park

Kiryat Gat is served by the Kiryat Gat Railway Station on the Tel Aviv-Be ' er Sheva inter-city line of Israel Railways.

Kiryat Gat is situated between two major highways, Highway 40 to the west of the town and Highway 6.

Kiryat Gat has 25 schools with an enrollment of 10, 676.

Kiryat Gat has a Pedagogic Center, science centers, a computerized library and a center devoted to industry, art and technology. In 2012, a high school student from Kiryat Gat won first prize in the First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics competition.

The city's football team, Maccabi Kiryat Gat were promoted to the Israeli Premier League in 2001, but were relegated at the end of their first season at the top level.

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Kiryat Yam (, lit.

Kiryat Motzkin (, ) is a city in the Haifa District of Israel, 8 km north of the city of Haifa.

Kiryat Malakhi (, also Qiryat Malakhi or Kiryat Malachi ) is a city council-governed municipality in Israel's Southern District, from Ashkelon.

Kiryat Shmona (, lit.

Kiryat Tiv ' on (, also Qiryat Tiv ' on ) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel, in the hills between the Zvulun and Jezreel valleys.

Kiryat Anavim (, lit.

After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bloody attack during Sukkot ( October 9, 1968 ), in which a grenade was thrown, apparently by a Hebron boy, onto the mosque stairs wounding 47 Israeli and foreign visitors, the government agreed to legitimize Levinger's wildcat settlement by establishing a town on the outskirts of the city in an abandoned military base, which was named Kiryat Arba ,' as if ,' Gershom Gorenberg writes, ' to make the place instantly ancient .'.

Examples include Tamuz in Beit Shemesh ( near Jerusalem ), Horesh in Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem, Beit Yisrael in Gilo, Jerusalem Migvan in Sderot.

All others would be dismantled, with the exception of Kiryat Arba ( adjacent to the holy city of Hebron ), which would be an Israeli enclave inside the Palestinian state, and would be linked to Israel by a bypass road.

The industry is divided into three zones — Kiryat Aryeh ( named after Aryeh Shenkar, founder and first president of the Manufacturers Association of Israel and a pioneer in the Israeli textile industry ), Kiryat Matalon ( named after Moshe Yitzhak Matalon ), and Segula, and includes textiles, metalwork, carpentry, plastics, processed foods, tires and other rubber products, and soap.

Over time, more neighborhoods developed: Sheinkin ( 1936 ), Givat Rambam ( 1933 ), Kiryat Yosef ( 1934 ) and Arlozorov ( 1936 ).

The quarter includes the new industrial zone ( Western Mabat ), and a number of residential neighborhoods: Neve Eliyahu ( or Ramat Eliyahu ), Ne ' ot Shikma, Neve Dekalim, Neve Hof ( or Pueblo Español ), Neve Yam, Kiryat Rishon, Kiryat Cramim, Kiryat Ganim, Ne ' ot Ashalim, Kiryat Hatanei Pras Nobel ( lit Nobel Prize Laureates ' Town )

According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.

39, 800 ), Kiryat Bialik ( pop.

As such, the headquarters of the Bezeq International international phone company is located in the Kiryat Matalon industrial zone as are those of the 012 Smile Internet Service Provider.

Holon is one of only two cities in the world to have a Samaritan community, the other being the village of Kiryat Luza on Mount Gerizim above Nablus on the West Bank.

One of a group of Haifa suburbs known as the Krayot, it is located on the Mediterranean coast, between Kiryat Haim and the Tzur Shalom industrial area, east of Kiryat Motzkin.

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The Kiryat Weizmann Science Park is a magnet for many Israeli start-ups, among them Indigo Digital Press, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002 and manufactures high-end digital printing presses.

Kiryat Ono () is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel.

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Kiryat Ata (; also Qiryat Ata ) is a city in the Haifa District of Israel.

Kiryat Bialik () ( also Qiryat Bialik ) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel.

The population growth rate in 2005 was-0. 3 %. The city is ranked medium-high on the socio-economic scale ( 7 out of 10 ) Many Jewish immigrants have settled in Kiryat Bialik, from Ethiopia, the former Soviet Union and Argentina.

Mossad Ahava, a youth village for children from high-risk home situations, is located in Kiryat Bialik.

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