
Kiryat Haim ( ) is a neighborhood of
Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
. It is considered part of the
Krayot cluster in the northern part of metropolitan
Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
. In 2008, Kiryat Haim had a population of just under 27,000.
Kiryat Haim is within the municipal borders of the city of
Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
and lies on the shore of the
Mediterranean Sea
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.
History

Kibbutz
Kfar Masaryk, a group formed in
Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva (, ), also spelt Petah Tiqwa and known informally as Em HaMoshavot (), is a city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Haredi Judaism, Haredi Jews of the Old Y ...
in 1932 and originally known as "Czecho-Lita", as its members came from
Czechoslovakia
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and
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
, moved to
Bat Galim
Bat Galim (, ''lit.'' Daughter of the Waves) is a neighborhood of Haifa, Israel, located at the foot of Mount Carmel on the Mediterranean coast. Bat Galim is known for its promenade and sandy beaches. The neighborhood spans from Rambam hospital i ...
in 1933 and then to the
sand dunes of Kiryat Haim, west of the railway. The kibbutz raised vegetables and opened a dairy farm. At this point it adopted a new name: ''Mishmar Zevulun'' (Guardian of
Zevulun Valley).
Kiryat Haim was named after
Haim Arlosoroff
Haim Arlosoroff (23 February 1899 – 16 June 1933; also known as Chaim Arlozorov; ) was a Socialist Zionist leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine, prior to the establishment of Israel, and head of the Political D ...
.
Gallery 1929-46
File:קרית חיים - מראה.-JNF045539.jpeg, Kiryat Haim in 1929
File:קרית חיים - מראה כללי.-JNF034616.jpeg, Kiryat Haim in 1930
File:Zoltan Kluger. Emek Zevulun (Haifa Bay).jpg, Kiryat Haim, aerial photo by Zoltan Kluger
Zoltan (Zvi) Kluger (; February 8, 1896 – May 16, 1977) was an Austro-Hungarian born Israeli photographer. He is known as one of the most important photographers in Mandatory Palestine.
Biography Hungary and Germany
Zoltan Kluger was born in ...
, 1937-1938
File:PikiWiki Israel 6203 kibbutz kiryat haim 1942.jpg, Kibbutz Mishmar Zevulun in Kiryat Haim, 1942
File:קרית חיים - 350 יחידות דיור חדשות.-JNF045202.jpeg, Kiryat Haim, 1946
Administrative structure, development
Administratively, Kiryat Haim is divided into two parts, Kiryat Haim West and Kiryat Haim East. Kiryat Haim West is located on the western side of the railway line between that and Kiryat Haim beach.
Kiryat Haim East was expanded to later and is located on the eastern side of railway. The housing initially consisted of low-density single-family housing, with a number of public housing projects located at edge of the neighbourhood. In later decades, some of this has been replaced by higher-density developments and apartment buildings.
Kiryat Haim East hosts the commercial "heart" of the suburb, with a number of shops, restaurants and a supermarket located along Achi Eilat Street, the suburb's main thoroughfare.
Coastal promenade
As part of its coastal development plan, the Haifa Economic Corporation built the Kiryat Haim Promenade, named for
Israeli minister of the environment Yehudit Naot
Professor Yehudit Naot (; 4 April 1944 – 16 December 2004) was an Israeli scientist and politician. She served as Minister of the Environment between February 2003 and October 2004.
Biography
Born in Kiryat Haim during the Mandate era, Naot ...
.
Demographics
Kiryat Haim absorbed large numbers of immigrants from the
former Soviet Union
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who arrived in the 1990s. The suburb also has a large population of
Ethiopian Israelis.
Sports
Thomas D'Alesandro Stadium, sometimes referred to simply as Kiryat Haim Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Kiryat Haim used mainly for
football
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matches. It was originally the home of
Hapoel Haifa and
Maccabi Haifa until
Kiryat Eliezer Stadium was built. It was named for
Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-large ...
mayor
Thomas D'Alesandro.
Kiryat Haim is home to a
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
team, .
Transportation
Kiryat Haim is served by the
Kiryat Haim railway station, which is on the main
Coastal railway line to
Nahariya
Nahariya () is the northernmost coastal city in Israel. As of , the city had a population of .
The city was founded in 1935 by Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
Etymology
Nahariya takes its name from the stream of Ga'aton River, Ga'aton (riv ...
, with southerly trains to
Beersheba
Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most p ...
and
Modi'in
Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut ( ''Mōdīʿīn-Makkabbīm-Rēʿūt'') is a city located in central Israel, about southeast of Tel Aviv and west of Jerusalem, and is connected to those two cities via Route 443 (Israel), Highway 443. In the population ...
.
Three
Egged bus lines route through Kiryat Haim, route 13 that travels between
Kiryat Ata and
Kiryat Yam, route 15 that routes via the western half of Kiryat Haim from the
Krayot central bus station in the north of
Kiryat Motzkin
Kiryat Motzkin () is a city in the Haifa District of Israel, north of the city center of Haifa. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, in it had a population of . However, as of September 2024, the unofficial population count is 55 ...
to
Hutzot HaMifratz, and route 26 that travels between
Kiryat Ata and Kiryat Haim beach.
At night, Kiryat Haim is served by night bus 210, which runs a meandering route through the Krayot with terminuses in Kiryat Ata and
Kiryat Bialik.
Notable residents

*
Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (; born Moshe Smilansky; 24 June 1950) is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation ...
, Former minister of defense and chief of joint staff
*
Rotem Sela, actress, model and television presenter
*
Yehuda Poliker, (born 1950), Israeli singer, songwriter, musician, and painter
*
Tal Banin, soccer player and coach
*
Shiri Maimon, singer
*
Dan Tichon
Dan Tichon (; 5 January 1937 – 30 September 2024) was an Israeli politician.
Biography
Tichon was born in Kiryat Haim during the Mandate era. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces before graduating with an economics and intern ...
, politician
References
External links
Satellite image from Google Maps
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Krayot
Neighborhoods of Haifa
Populated places established in 1933