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title: "Is Israel a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Israel (Jerusalem): 198.6 Mbps internet, safety 90/100, healthcare 85/100 — essentials ≈ $2,677/month, so $3k lives \"comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 31/167

# Is 🇮🇱 Israel (Jerusalem) a good place to live?

Quality score **82/100** against essentials of **$2,677/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 79 198.6 Mbps median broadband, 88.2% online

Safety 90 1.6 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 85 UHC service coverage 85/100 (2023)

Air quality 74 PM2.5 16.9 µg/m³ (2023)

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.6 · corruption control 0.85 · stability -1.04 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $29.49 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $12.15/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($2,677) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 0.7× | out of budget |
| $3,000 | 1.1× | comfortable |
| $5,000 | 1.9× | very comfortable |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇨🇭 Switzerland](https://geo-parity.com/livability/switzerland/) — quality 85.1, essentials $2,753/mo
- [🇸🇧 Solomon Islands](https://geo-parity.com/livability/solomon-islands/) — quality 55.7, essentials $1,786/mo
- [🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saint-kitts-and-nevis/) — quality 49.1, essentials $1,628/mo
- [🇨🇫 Central African Republic](https://geo-parity.com/livability/central-african-republic/) — quality 26.1, essentials $809/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/israel/) · [retiring in Israel](https://geo-parity.com/fire/israel/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Israel a good place to live for remote workers?**: Israel scores 82/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 198.6 Mbps, safety 90, healthcare 85, air quality 74; English not scored) — rank 31 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Israel?**: Median fixed broadband is around 198.6 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Israel?**: Single-person essentials run about $2,677/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "comfortable" (1.1× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/israel/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json