• In Israel, the term "mixed cities" usually refers to five cities: Akko (Acre), Haifa, Jaffa (the southern quarter of Tel Aviv), Ramle, and Lod. However, the Central Bureau of Statistics defines "mixed cities" as localities in which the decisive majority of the population is Jewish but which have a sizeable minority of Arab residents. The term also refers to Ma'alot-Tarshiha (a joint municipality of the Jewish settlement of Ma'alot and the Arab village of Tarshiha) and Upper Nazareth, both located in the Galilee in Northern Israel.
• According to government statistics at the end of 2007, the Arab population of Israel's mixed cities totaled approximately 94,000 inhabitants, or about 8% of the entire population of Israeli Arab citizens (excluding Arab residents of East Jerusalem.

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