The Krayot or Qerayot (, "townships") (plural of ''Kirya'') are a cluster of four small cities and two neighbourhoods of

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founded in the 1930s on the outskirts of the city of

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, in the

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area. The Krayot include Kiryat Yam (pop. 42,284),

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 ...

(pop. 48,748),

Kiryat Bialik Kiryat Bialik (, also Qiryat Bialik) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. The city was established on July 18, 1934, during the Fifth Aliyah. It is one of the five Krayot suburbs to the north of Haifa. In it had a population of . The city ...

(pop. 36,200), Kiryat Ata (pop. 61,709),

Kiryat Haim Kiryat Haim ( ) is a neighborhood of Haifa. It is considered part of the Krayot cluster in the northern part of metropolitan Haifa. In 2008, Kiryat Haim had a population of just under 27,000. Kiryat Haim is within the municipal borders of ...

(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

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, to merge the Krayot into one municipality. A proposed name for this city is Zvulun (after the biblical

Zebulun Zebulun (; also ''Zebulon'', ''Zabulon'', or ''Zaboules'' in ''Antiquities of the Jews'' by Josephus) was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers,Genesis 46:14 the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's tenth son), and the foun ...

, and the Zvulun Valley).

The Krayot

Cities

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The Krayot

Cities

Neighborhoods

See also

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