Kiryat Bialik

Kiryat Bialik קִרְייַת בְּיַאלִיק‎ كريات بياليك‎
Hebrew transcription(s)
• ISO 259	Qiryat Byáˀliq (Bialik)
Kiryat Bialik town hall
Kiryat Bialik
Coordinates: 32°50′N 35°05′E
Destrict	Haifa
Foondit	1934
Govrenment
• Teep	Ceety
• Mayor	Eli Dukorsky
Area
• Total	8.178 km2 (3.158 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	39,069
• Density	4,800/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
Name meanin	Bialik Toun
Website	www.qbialik.org.il

Kiryat Bialik (Hebrew: קִרְייַת בְּיַאלִיק‬) (an aa Qiryat Bialik) is a ceety in the Haifa Destrict in Israel. It is ane o the five Krayot suburbs north o Haifa. In 2015 it haed a population o 39,069. The ceety wis named efter the poet Hayim Nahman Bialik.

Demographics

Kiryat Bialik in 1944

Accordin tae CBS, the ethnic makeup o Kiryat Bialik in 2003 wis aw Jewish, athoot a significant Arab population. In 2003, thare wur 17,700 males an 19,400 females. 25.8% o the population wis 19 year o age or younger, 15.8% atween 20 an 29, 17.4% atween 30 an 44, 21.5 frae 45 tae 59, 3.8% frae 60 tae 64, an 15.6% 65 year o age or aulder. The population growth rate in 2005 wis -0.3%. The ceety is ranked medium-heich on the socio-economic scale (7 oot o 10) Mony Jewish immigrants hae settled in Kiryat Bialik, frae Ethiopie, the umwhile Soviet Union an Argentinae.

Income

Accordin tae CBS figures for 2002, thare wur 17,514 salaried wirkers an 912 sel-employed in Kiryat Bialik. The mean monthly wage for a salaried wirker wis 6,119 NIS, a real chynge o -4.6% ower the course o 2002. Salaried males haed a mean monthly wage o 7,851 NIS (a real chynge o -3%) versus 4,491 NIS for females (a real chynge o -7.2%). The mean income for the sel-employed wis 5,996 NIS (a real chynge o -17%). 557 fowk received unemployment benefits an 2,701 fowk received an guaranteed minimum income.

Education

Accordin tae CBS, thare are 9 schuils an 6,291 students in the ceety: 6 elementary schuils wi 2,540 students, an 3 secondary education schuils (2 junior heich an 1 heich schuil, unner the same admeenistration) wi 3,751 students. 63.4% o 12t grade students wur entitled tae a Bagrut (matriculation) certificate in 2002.

Mossad Ahava, a youth veelage for childer frae heich-risk hame situations, is locatit in Kiryat Bialik.

Notable persons

• Yochanan Vollach, association fitbaa player