Krayot

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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 (Template:Langx, "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.<ref>Words and Stones : The Politics of Language and Identity in ... Daniel Lefkowitz Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian & Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures University of Virginia - 2004 Page 58 "Far below lies Checkpost, a shopping, entertainment, and transportation hub, and the gateway to the eastern suburbs called the Krayot." Most Neve Yosef residents have friends or relatives who live in the Krayot...."</ref><ref>Munio Gitai Weinraub: Bauhaus architect in Eretz Israel - Page 53 Richard Ingersoll - 1994 "(Jewish Agency Archives) Weinraub's most extensive involvement with the labor movement occurred in the workers' suburbs, or krayot, to the west of Haifa."</ref><ref>Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today's Israel? - Page 173 Jo-Ann Mort, Gary Brenner - 2003 "Most of the new tenants are coming from Nahariya, Akko, and the Krayot [suburbs of Haifa]."</ref><ref>Civilians under assault: Hezbollah's rocket attacks on Israel in ... - Page 73 2007 "HaKrayot, Hebrew for the towns, refers to the coastal suburbs between the city of Haifa to the southwest and Akko to the north. HaKrayot's population is about 300,000, exceeding that of Haifa. It includes both vast industrial zones as well as...."</ref>

The Krayot include Kiryat Yam (pop. 42,284),<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="ynet-unification" /> A proposed name for this city is Zvulun (after the biblical Zebulun, and the Zvulun Valley).Template:Citation needed

The Krayot

Cities

Emblem	City	Population	Area (in acres)	Density (people per sq. km)	First settlement	Ranking (Socio-economic index<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>)
File:Kiryat Yam COA.svg	Kiryat Yam	42,284	12,170	8,606	1941	5
File:Coat of arms of Kiryat Bialik.svg	Kiryat Bialik	50,086	10,000	4,639	1934	6
File:Kiryat Motzkin COA.png	Kiryat Motzkin	48,748	3,778	10,612	1934	6
File:Coat of arms of Kiryat-Ata.png	Kiryat Ata	61,709	16,706	3,470	1925	6

Neighborhoods

Neighborhood	City	Population	Area (in acres)	Density (people per sq. km)	First settlement
Kiryat Haim	Haifa	29,000	4,550	6,360	1933
Kiryat Shmuel	Haifa	7,740	750	10,256	1935

See also

• Carmel Tunnels