Kiryat Shmuel () is a neighborhood at the perimeter of the city of

Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...

in northern

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. The neighborhood is bounded by

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 ...

in the south and in the west, by

Kiryat Yam Kiryat Yam (, lit. ''Sea Town'') is a city in the Haifa Bay district of Israel, north of Haifa. One of a group of Haifa suburbs known as the Krayot, it is located on the Mediterranean coast, between Kiryat Haim and the Tzur Shalom industrial ar ...

in the west, and by

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 ...

in the east. It is located about one kilometer from the coast, with a train station on its border with Kiryat Motzkin. Kiryat Shmuel has a population of 5,500 (2007) consisting mostly of Orthodox Jews. The streets of the neighbourhood are closed to motor traffic on

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. The neighbourhood is named after Shmuel Hayim Landau, a leader of the

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movement. Kiryat Shmuel was built on the sands of Haifa Bay in 1938, by members of

who wanted to live in a town of a religious Jewish-Orthodox character. The founders rejected an offer to build a small neighbourhood within

and chose to start a new town. Initially Kiryat Shmuel was an independent municipal entity, but in 1952 it was amalgamated into

together with Kiryat Haim.

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