Arab localities in Israel

East Jerusalem and Golan Heights are not internationally recognized parts of Israel proper but have been included in this list.

According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics census in 2010, "the Arab population lives in 134 towns and villages.

[1] Around 8.4% of Israeli Arabs live in officially mixed Jewish-Arab cities (excluding Arab residents in East Jerusalem), including Haifa, Lod, Ramle, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Acre, Nof HaGalil, and Ma'alot Tarshiha.

[7] According to Ha'aretz in 2015, only 16,000 Arabs are thought to be living in 16 localities not officially defined as mixed cities, or in Jewish neighborhoods of Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

[8] According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, a sizeable percentage of Arabs lives in the Jewish majority cities of Eilat (5% Arab), Carmiel (4%), Qiryat Shemona (3%), Arad (3%), Beersheva (3%), Nahariyya (2%), Safed (2%) and Tiberias (2%).

There is a substantial Druze and Christian population in the Carmel region and the Wadi Nisnas neighborhood of Haifa.

East Jerusalem was annexed by Israel after its victory over Jordan during the Six-Day War in 1967.

[10] The Arab population lives primarily in the northwestern Negev and is entirely composed of Muslim Bedouins.

Several towns in the area are not formally recognized by the government and do not receive basic utilities from the state (see unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel).

† Significant presence of Christian population († - Christian majority) ☆ Significant presence of Druze population (☆ - Druze majority) The Golan Heights was captured during the Six-Day War in 1967 and de facto annexed by Israel in 1981.