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Sourced comparisons across the 33 places in our research. Pick a lens. Every list here is drawn from real data, and where we do not have the data we say so rather than guess.

What a 3-room apartment actually rents for

NIS per month, CBS, Q1 2026

  • 1
    Tel Aviv-Yafo₪7,078

    City average across all sizes ₪7,351. The most expensive rental market in the country.

  • 2
    Herzliya₪5,572

    All sizes ₪6,648. Second most expensive.

  • 3
    Ramat Gan₪5,404

    All sizes ₪5,827.

  • 4
    Jerusalem₪4,839

    All sizes ₪5,281. Expect a large premium in Rechavia, Baka and the German Colony, and a discount in Pisgat Ze’ev or Gilo.

  • 5
    Kfar Saba₪4,758

    All sizes ₪6,054. CBS suppressed the 1 to 2 room band for too small a sample, and the high all-sizes average reflects a stock skewed to large apartments.

  • 6
    Rishon LeZion₪4,636

    All sizes ₪5,184.

  • 7
    Beit Shemesh₪4,354

    All sizes ₪4,782. The fastest riser in the table: this band was ₪3,748 a year earlier, roughly 16% up.

  • 8
    Petach Tikva₪4,186

    All sizes ₪5,052.

  • 9
    Rehovot₪4,132

    All sizes ₪4,870.

  • 10
    Netanya₪4,059

    All sizes ₪4,729.

  • 11
    Ashdod₪3,869

    All sizes ₪4,403.

  • 12
    Ashkelon₪3,231

    All sizes ₪3,638.

  • 13
    Haifa₪3,117

    All sizes ₪3,385. Cheapest of the big central and northern cities by a wide margin.

  • 14
    Be'er Sheva₪2,781

    All sizes ₪3,131. The cheapest city CBS covers, and about 39% of Tel Aviv for the same size band.

Basis: Official CBS figures for average monthly rent on free-market contracts ACTUALLY SIGNED, not asking prices on a listings site. The figure shown is the 2.5 to 3 room band, which in Israeli terms means about a 2-bedroom, because "3 rooms" counts the living room. The city average across all sizes is given alongside. One metric, one quarter, so the cities are genuinely comparable.

Checked 2026-07-27Central Bureau of StatisticsYnetnews

What we will not rank yet

Rent now covers 30 of 33 places, but on two different bases that must not be compared directly. For the 14 cities above 100,000 residents we use official CBS figures for rents on contracts ACTUALLY SIGNED. CBS publishes nothing below that threshold, so for 16 smaller towns we use median ASKING prices from listings, which typically run 2 to 5% above what gets signed, on their own clearly-marked board. Three places have no usable figure at all: Efrat, Tzur Hadassah and Mitzpe Ramon, where the listing pool is too thin to compute a real number. Still genuinely missing everywhere: housing demand, and hard tech-job counts by city. Nobody publishes either at locality level. We would rather show you less than guess.

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