{"id":620167,"date":"2026-09-18T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620167\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:38:11","slug":"tel-aviv-beats-every-other-middle-eastern-city-in-global-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620167\/","title":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv beats every other Middle Eastern city in global ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>However, it performed less strongly in the quality of life, environment and governance arenas. For quality of life it came\u00a0156th, for environment its ranking was\u00a0234th and where governance was concerned it came in at 401st place.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Economics, a global advisory firm,\u00a0attributed the city\u2019s strong economic performance in part to its technology sector, noting its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/israel\/tel-aviv-tech-boom-y7s6gd42\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSilicon Wadi\u201d<\/a> ecosystem is home to startups and established companies working in industries including defence, finance and biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Tel Aviv\u2019s metropolitan economy was valued at approximately $267 billion (\u00a3197bn)\u00a0with GDP per person standing at $86,300 (\u00a364,600) and a population of 3.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The report also highlighted the contribution of Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University to research and development, particularly in fields linked to the technology sector.<\/p>\n<p>It said Tel Aviv had one of the highest rates of educational attainment in the Middle East and North Africa, supported by a highly skilled workforce and concentration of high-paying technology jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0the quality of life category, researchers identified strong income per person and high life expectancy as advantages, while noting that high housing costs remained a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The report also pointed to the relatively low carbon intensity of Tel Aviv\u2019s economy, reflecting the importance of technology and professional services.<\/p>\n<p>However, regional geopolitical instability affected the city\u2019s governance ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Economics said: \u201cTel Aviv remains slated to perform well in the rankings in the coming years from a structural standpoint,\u201d while warning that continued regional instability presented risks.<\/p>\n<p>Tel Aviv was one of only three Middle Eastern cities included in the global top 50.<\/p>\n<p>New York City, Paris and London took the top three spots overall, in that order, with Seattle and San Francisco completing the top five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, it performed less strongly in the quality of life, environment and governance arenas. For quality of life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,116],"class_list":["post-620167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-tel-aviv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}