Kiryat Gat, Israel

Israel

Kiryat Gat shares 50 connections with 3263 other places across 16 topics, with the bulk anchored in Israeli basketball, post-Soviet immigration, and industrial manufacturing. The city overlaps with Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, and sits on Highway 6 near the Rabin industrial zone. Roughly a third of residents trace their roots to the former Soviet Union after the 1990s aliyah. The Osem corporation makes Bamba, a peanut-butter puffed-maize snack, in Kiryat Gat, and the city fielded the Maccabi Kiryat Gat basketball club until its 2018 dissolution.