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Living in Ramot, Jerusalem
A large, mostly religious suburb in north-west Jerusalem: the English-speaking shul, the sections, and the city's official numbers.
- 1,050,151
- Jerusalem residents, end of 2024
- 30 min
- fastest train to Tel Aviv
- ₪2,825,500
- median sold price, all of Jerusalem
- ₪5,700
- median rent a month, all of Jerusalem
Ramot from the air, February 2023. Photo by Hagai Agmon-Snir, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ramot, Jerusalem, in short
Suits
Religious English-speaking families, Dati Leumi or Modern Orthodox, who want a large Jerusalem suburb with one shul that says it has a sizable number of English-speaking olim, and who are at home next to a Haredi majority.
Not for
Secular families, buyers who need neighbourhood price data before deciding, anyone who wants to stay clear of the 1949 line question, and investors buying for rental yield.
A 4-room home sold for a median ₪3,169,800 over the last year, new and older homes together. Train to Tel Aviv: 30 min fastest on a weekday. Train to Jerusalem: the city's own station.
The numbers that decide it
These are Jerusalem's city-wide figures.
2 of 10
Socio-economic cluster
Rank 25 of 255 authorities, 1 is lowest. CBS, 2021.
1.2%
Population growth in 2023
1,050,151 residents at the end of 2024. CBS.
₪2,825,500
Median sold price, all homes
Last 12 months, +2.7% on the year. nadlan.gov.il.
₪5,700
Median rent a month
Recorded rents, -2.2% on the year. nadlan.gov.il.
2.4%
Gross rental yield
As nadlan.gov.il computes it, before arnona, upkeep, vacancy and tax.
6,104
Homes started in 2023
2,724 completed the same year. CBS city profile.
What do these numbers mean for your budget?
Message us on WhatsAppThe English-speaking community
In Ramot Bet, Beit Knesset Mitzpe Ramot describes itself on its own site as "a warm, welcoming community in the leafy suburb of Ramot Bet" whose members include "a sizable number of both veteran and new English-speaking olim". The page, which carries no date, says around 40 young Anglo families have joined over the past few years and that the shul gives Torah classes in both English and Hebrew. It also mentions an active Bnei Akiva and Ezra in the neighbourhood.
No official source counts English speakers in Ramot, and the Ministry of Aliyah publishes olim figures for Jerusalem as a whole only. The most recent estimate we found is from March 2014, when Jewish Action, the OU's magazine, wrote that "NBN estimates the number of English speakers in Ramot at about 20 percent". The same article said that "only a small number of religious Anglo olim are moving to Ramot", most choosing newer, smaller, more affordable apartments a bit farther from Jerusalem. That is twelve years old, and Mitzpe Ramot's undated page points the other way.
Also in Ramot Bet, Ya'ar Ramot is a Masorti congregation that Nefesh B'Nefesh's Masorti list describes as home to upwards of 100 families; how many speak English is not stated. Lakewood East, officially a branch of the American Lakewood yeshiva, has been in Ramot since 2004, with a senior beit medrash and a kollel. The Sir Charles Clore library on Recanati Street has an English-language section the Jerusalem Foundation supplies with books.
Nefesh B'Nefesh's Jerusalem community guide does not list Ramot among the neighbourhoods popular with olim.
7,308
olim from the US
1,178
from the UK
26,288
olim in total
Settling in Ramot, Jerusalem, 2014 to 2023. Canada, South Africa and Australia are not counted separately, and the figures stop before most of the recent growth.
Source: Ministry of Aliyah, 2014 to 2023
Where this section comes from (22 sources)
- mitzperamot.org/welcome, undated, accessed 2026-10-14
- nbn.org.il/masorti-kehillot, undated, accessed 2026-10-14
- easyaliyah.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-anglo-communities-in-israel, "18 May", year not shown
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramot,_Jerusalem, accessed 2026-10-14
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakewood_East, accessed 2026-10-14
- he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F, accessed 2026-10-14
- nbn.org.il/life-in-israel/community-and-housing/community-guide/jerusalem, accessed 2026-10-14
- mizrachi.org/hamizrachi/mizrachi-and-young-israel-launch-exciting-new-initiative, 2023
- jerusalem.muni.il/en/residents/aliyah, link only (page did not load for scraping)
- jewishaction.com/jewish-world/israel/aliyah/anglos-israel, accessed 2026-10-14; Mar 2014; 1 May 2023
- nadlancenter.co.il/article/7558, accessed 2026-10-14; Mar 2014; 1 May 2023
- easyaliyah.com/blog/jerusalem-anglo-communities, "18 May", year not shown; undated
- data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d735ad06-8bde-41aa-8350-a15a36bac18f, published 2024-03-12
- kikar.co.il/israel-news/82678, 27 Oct 2011; 27 Mar 2016
- kikar.co.il/haredim-news/195947, 27 Oct 2011; 27 Mar 2016
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramot_Polin, accessed 2026-10-14
- alquds.com/en/posts/72428, 1 May 2023; 20 May 2023
- jdn.co.il/municipal/1968973, 23 May 2023; 18 Sep 2023
- nadlancenter.co.il/article/8403, 23 May 2023; 18 Sep 2023
- stljewishlight.org/world-news/plans-advance-for-building-in-eastern-jerusalem-jewish-neighborhood, 12 Nov 2014
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(Jerusalem_Light_Rail, accessed 2026-10-14
- jerusalemfoundation.org/?p=7451, undated, accessed 2026-10-14
Ramot, Jerusalem
The edge of Ramot from the air, February 2023. Photo by Hagai Agmon-Snir, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Where people live
Ramot as a whole
A suburb on two ridges in north-west Jerusalem. Wikipedia gives a population of 50,400 in 2020, 75% of them Haredi, and says Ramot was 70% secular when it was founded in 1974. Other sources, from 2014 to 2023, give other totals, from about 51,000 to 70,000.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Ramot Bet
Hebrew Wikipedia calls Ramot Bet the centre of Ramot's secular and Dati Leumi population. Mitzpe Ramot and the Masorti Ya'ar Ramot are both here.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Ramot Alef, Gimmel, Daled and Vav
Wikipedia says Ramot Alef, Gimmel and Daled have become partially Haredi since 2000, that one side of Ramot Gimmel is mostly Haredi and the other more Modern Orthodox, and that Ramot Vav also has a Haredi population. Dati Leumi, Modern Orthodox and Chardal families live across all of Ramot.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Ramot Polin
Zvi Hecker's architecturally controversial complex of 720 homes, built in stages from 1972. Wikipedia says they are lived in mostly by Haredi families, including Breslov.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
The 1949 line
Wikipedia says Ramot is administered by Israel as part of the Jerusalem municipality and that part of it was built across the Green Line in East Jerusalem; its history section says most of the area was under Jordanian control between 1949 and 1967. The international community considers Ramot a settlement; Israel considers East Jerusalem its sovereign territory. Check any specific building against the line.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
What is planned
An article of 1 May 2023 reported that the local planning committee had approved for deposit two plans for about 1,700 homes in buildings of up to 12 floors on Ramot's edge (Nadlan Center, citing Calcalist). In September 2023 a Ramot Polin urban renewal plan, about 1,340 homes in place of 320, was at the district committee. We have not checked either since. Hebrew Wikipedia lists projects completed since 2020, among them Ramot 360 above Ramot Mall.
51.9%
of households own their home
36.5%
rent
24
median age
3.7
people per household
9.9%
born in the Americas
14.9%
work outside the city
Schools
589 active schools in Ramot, Jerusalem, by stream
243 Haredi
74 State religious
272 State
No school confirms English support on its own site
Wikipedia lists Ramot's religious schools, among them an Ohr Torah Stone junior high and high school for boys, Ahavat Yisrael, a Chardal primary and junior high, and Noam Ramot, a primary school; none says it runs an English track. Ask the municipality's education department for the schools zoned to your address.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Ulpanat Tal Ramot
A 2019 article says the girls' programme of the Yerushalayim Torah Academy, a high school for English-speaking children of olim, was housed at Ulpanat Tal Ramot. Whether it still is, we have not confirmed.
Source: The Jewish Link · 28 Mar 2019
English books at the library
The Sir Charles Clore library, 6 Recanati Street, has an English-language section the Jerusalem Foundation supplies with books.
Getting around
Direct trains from ירושלים/יצחק נבון station, 1.7 km in a straight line from the city's centre point, on one weekday of the current timetable.
To Tel Aviv HaHagana
30min
fastest; median 31 min, 38 direct trains a weekday
To Tel Aviv Savidor
35min
fastest; median 41 min, 43 direct trains a weekday
To Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon
Here
this is the station
The fast train leaves from the city centre
There is no train station in Ramot. The direct trains to Tel Aviv on this page leave from Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon: the minutes are station to station, so add the trip to Navon.
By road
Wikipedia gives about 15 minutes to the centre of Jerusalem and about 7 to the Har Hotzvim industrial park. The Golda Meir highway, Route 436, runs between Ramot's two ridges toward Tel Aviv.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Light rail, not before 2028
Ramot Alon is a terminus of the Blue Line now being built. Wikipedia gives initial service in 2028 and full operations in 2030; an earlier forecast it cites had the line opening in 2023.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Golda Meir Boulevard (Route 436) at Ramot Mall, May 2023. Photo by Hagai Agmon-Snir, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
What homes sold and rented for
Recorded deals from the Tax Authority, last 12 months. They mix new apartments and older homes, so they are neither the new-build price nor the resale price.
Sold, median price
- 3 rooms₪2,561,100
+11.5% on the year
- 4 rooms₪3,169,800
+2.0% on the year
- 5 rooms₪4,228,600
+2.7% on the year
Latest quarter (to Mar 2026): ₪2,717,100 here against ₪2,058,800 nationally.
Rented, median a month
- 3 rooms₪5,400
-1.8% on the year
- 4 rooms₪7,200
-2.7% on the year
- 5 rooms₪9,150
+2.2% on the year
The CBS rent survey, a different series, puts average free-market rent at ₪5,347 a month (Q2 2026) for Ramot, Jerusalem.
What else is being built
6,104
homes started in 2023
2,724 completed. CBS.
356
state land tenders since 2000
54 opened since 2023. Israel Land Authority.
52
Dira BeHanacha lotteries
Latest 27 Jan 2025: 232 homes, 28,230 applicants.
Land offered to developers right now (20)
A tender is land, not homes: anything built on it is years away.
Running costs and safety
Arnona, average billed
₪82.0
per square metre a year, 2023. The city’s total residential billing over billed area, not your street’s tariff.
Source: CBS city profile, 2023
Bank of Israel rate
3.25%
The base for mortgage pricing, not a mortgage rate.
Source: Bank of Israel, 13 Oct 2026
Siren warning time
90seconds
to reach a protected space. New buildings must have one: usually a safe room in the apartment (mamad), in some a shared one per floor (mamak). Ask which.
Source: Home Front Command, 14 Oct 2026
The downsides
No hard numbers for Ramot
No official source breaks out Ramot: the prices, rent, olim and train figures on this page are Jerusalem's. The only English-speaker estimate we found is NBN's "about 20 percent", quoted in 2014.
Source: Jewish Action · Mar 2014
A Haredi majority
Wikipedia puts 75% of Ramot's 2020 population as Haredi, against 70% secular at its founding in 1974, and says Ramot Alef, Gimmel and Daled have become partially Haredi since 2000. Families who want a mixed or secular street should look at the specific block.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
The 1949 line
Part of Ramot was built across the Green Line, and Wikipedia's history section says most of its area was under Jordanian control before 1967. The international community considers it a settlement. Buyers for whom this matters should check the exact building.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Jerusalem prices, low rental yield
In the quarter ending Mar 2026 the median sold home in Jerusalem went for ₪2,717,100, against ₪2,058,800 nationally. nadlan.gov.il computes a gross rental yield of 2.4% for the city as a whole, before arnona, maintenance, vacancy and tax.
Source: nadlan.gov.il
A car suburb until the light rail
No train station, and the Blue Line to Ramot Alon is not expected before 2028, with full service in 2030. Its opening date has slipped before.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
Who should pick Ramot, Jerusalem, and who should not
Pick it if you are
- Dati Leumi and Modern Orthodox families who want an English-speaking shul in Ramot Bet.
- Families who want a suburb at the edge of Jerusalem with a mall, a community pool and a forest in the neighbourhood.
- Buyers comfortable living next to a large Haredi community.
Look elsewhere if you are
- Secular families looking for a secular neighbourhood.
- Anyone who wants to avoid the 1949 line question.
- Investors buying for rental income.
Questions about Ramot, Jerusalem
Is Ramot good for English speakers?
Beit Knesset Mitzpe Ramot in Ramot Bet says on its own site that it has a sizable number of veteran and new English-speaking olim and that around 40 young Anglo families have joined over the past few years (the page is undated). The most recent estimate of English speakers, NBN's about 20 percent, was quoted in 2014, and Nefesh B'Nefesh's Jerusalem guide does not list Ramot among the neighbourhoods popular with olim.
Is there an English-speaking shul in Ramot?
Beit Knesset Mitzpe Ramot in Ramot Bet gives Torah classes in English and Hebrew and says a sizable number of its members are English-speaking olim. Ya'ar Ramot, a Masorti congregation in Ramot Bet, has upwards of 100 families, but its English share is not stated.
Is Ramot Haredi?
Mostly. Wikipedia puts the 2020 population at 50,400, 75% of them Haredi, with Dati Leumi, Modern Orthodox and Chardal families across the neighbourhood. Hebrew Wikipedia calls Ramot Bet the centre of the secular and Dati Leumi population; one side of Ramot Gimmel is mostly Haredi and the other more Modern Orthodox.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
How much does an apartment cost in Ramot?
There is no official price figure for Ramot alone. Across Jerusalem, the median recorded sale of a 4-room home over the last 12 months was ₪3,169,800, new and older homes together (nadlan.gov.il, 20 Aug 2026).
Source: nadlan.gov.il
How much is rent in Ramot?
There is no official rent figure for Ramot alone. Across Jerusalem, the median recorded rent over the last 12 months was ₪5,700 a month for all homes and ₪7,200 for 4 rooms (nadlan.gov.il, 20 Aug 2026).
Source: nadlan.gov.il
Is Ramot beyond the Green Line?
Partly. Wikipedia says part of Ramot was built across the Green Line in East Jerusalem, and its history section says most of the area was under Jordanian control between 1949 and 1967. Israel administers Ramot as part of the Jerusalem municipality; the international community considers it a settlement.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
How long is the train from Ramot to Tel Aviv?
There is no station in Ramot. On a weekday the fastest direct train from Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon to Tel Aviv HaHagana takes 30 minutes and the median 31 minutes, with 38 direct trains that day (Ministry of Transport timetable fetched 14 Oct 2026). Add the trip to Navon.
Source: Ministry of Transport GTFS
When will the light rail reach Ramot?
Ramot Alon is a terminus of the Blue Line. Wikipedia gives initial service in 2028 and full operations in 2030; an earlier forecast had it opening in 2023.
Source: Wikipedia · accessed 14 Oct 2026
How long do you have to reach a shelter in Ramot?
90 seconds from the siren, according to the Home Front Command; the time is the same in every Jerusalem alert area.
Source: Home Front Command · 14 Oct 2026
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Sources and method
- CBS Localities File 2024, 31 Dec 2024
- CBS Census 2022, data.gov.il, 31 Dec 2022
- Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, olim by receiving locality (new-olim-by-cities), data.gov.il, 2014 to 2023
- Ministry of Education institutions (mosdot_edu), data.gov.il, 14 Oct 2026
- Ministry of Construction and Housing, Dira BeHanacha lotteries (mechir-lamishtaken), data.gov.il, 27 Jan 2025
- Home Front Command alert areas (districts_heb.json), 14 Oct 2026
- Bank of Israel interest rate (SDMX BR), 13 Oct 2026
- CBS, Local Authorities in Israel 2023, authority profile (publication 1987), 31 Dec 2023; 2023; 2022; Jun 2024; 2021
- CBS, Characterization and Classification of Geographical Units by Socio-Economic Level, 2021, table 2, 2021
- CBS Price Statistics Monthly, table 4.9, average free-market rent, Q2 2026
- Ministry of Transport GTFS, Israel Railways (agency 2), 14 Oct 2026
- nadlan.gov.il (Tax Authority deal records), site's own summary, 20 Aug 2026
- Israel Land Authority tenders (michrazim), 14 Oct 2026
Official figures fetched 14 Oct 2026. Each date is the period the source covers, or for live lists (schools, tenders, timetable, warning times) the day we fetched it. Page written 14 Oct 2026.