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The 9 Best Pizza Places in Israel (2026)

Updated August 2026 · 9 picks

The best pizza in Israel is in Tel Aviv, where Naples-trained pizzaioli run 450°C wood ovens and the Roman-style counters sell by weight, with Jerusalem's city-centre wood-fired restaurants the strongest kosher option. Almost every Jerusalem pizzeria is kosher dairy; almost none in Jaffa is. Nine, below.

1. The Neapolitan wood-fired restaurants — Central Tel Aviv

Naples-trained pizzaioli, 450°C ovens and a properly fermented dough.

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The best pizza in Tel Aviv comes from a handful of restaurants doing serious Neapolitan work: long-fermented dough, imported 00 flour, San Marzano-style tomatoes, and a wood oven hot enough to cook a pizza in ninety seconds.

The signature of the style is a puffed, blistered, slightly wet centre — if you were expecting a crisp base you will think it is underdone, and it is not.

These are proper restaurants with wine lists rather than takeaway counters, and they are worth booking on a Thursday or Friday night.

Good to know: Order a margherita first. If a Neapolitan place gets that right, everything else will follow.

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2. The city centre wood-fired restaurants — Around Jaffa Street and the centre, Jerusalem

Proper dough, a hot oven and market vegetables — the best pizza in the city.

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The serious pizza in Jerusalem is at the wood-fired kosher dairy restaurants in and around the city centre, where the dough is fermented properly, the ovens run hot, and the toppings come from Machane Yehuda a few streets away.

Because these places are certified dairy, they are entirely vegetarian, and the menus lean into it — roasted eggplant, za'atar, labneh, olives, artichoke, several cheeses at once.

They are sit-down restaurants rather than takeaway counters, generally open late in the evening, and closed from Friday afternoon through Shabbat.

Good to know: Order something with roasted eggplant or za'atar — the local toppings beat the imported ones.

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3. The Roman-style slice counters — Central Tel Aviv

Pizza al taglio — rectangular trays, sold by weight, cut with scissors.

₪₪ Mid-range

Roman-style pizza al taglio has taken hold in Tel Aviv: rectangular trays with a thicker, airier, well-fermented base, cut to whatever size you point at and sold by weight.

It is the best fast lunch in the pizza category — you can take a small piece of three different toppings rather than committing to a whole pizza, and it is quick.

The toppings tend to be more interesting than at the round-pizza places, running to seasonal vegetables, potato, and combinations that would not survive a Neapolitan oven.

Good to know: Point at three different trays and ask for a small piece of each — that is how it is meant to work.

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4. The Jaffa pizzerias — Jaffa, Tel Aviv

Open every night, stone courtyards outside, and no kosher restrictions.

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Jaffa's restaurants around the flea market and the port include several doing good pizza, and the setting — old stone, courtyards, tables in the square — is the best place in greater Tel Aviv to eat outside.

Because the area is largely Arab-owned and non-kosher, everything runs seven nights a week including Friday and Saturday, and meat toppings are available.

The flea market square stays lively late, which makes it a natural stop after an evening walk from the promenade.

Good to know: Get an outside table in the flea market square before 8pm — they go early on warm nights.

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5. The Florentin pizzerias — Florentin, Tel Aviv

Cheaper, later, louder — and the pizza the neighbourhood actually eats.

₪₪ Mid-range

Florentin's pizzerias run to the small independent end: a few tables, a counter, an oven, pavement seating, and hours that stretch well past midnight because the neighbourhood's bars do too.

Quality varies but the good ones are genuinely good, and the prices are noticeably lower than in the centre. Several also do vegan pizza properly rather than as a token option.

It is the right neighbourhood for pizza as part of a night out rather than as the destination.

Good to know: Thursday and Friday nights these run very late — the 2am slice is a Florentin institution.

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6. The German Colony restaurants — Emek Refaim, German Colony, Jerusalem

Sit outside on Jerusalem's nicest street and take your time.

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Emek Refaim in the German Colony is the most pleasant restaurant street in Jerusalem — nineteenth-century stone buildings, trees, pavement tables — and several of its dairy restaurants do very good pizza.

It is the family option: comfortable, unhurried, easy with children, and close to the old railway park path for a walk afterwards.

Combine with the Smadar cinema at the end of the street, which is Jerusalem's oldest and one of the few places open on Shabbat.

Good to know: Book on a Thursday evening — Emek Refaim fills up and the outside tables go first.

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7. The vegan pizzerias — Citywide, Tel Aviv

Fully plant-based pizza that stands up without an asterisk.

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Tel Aviv has fully vegan pizzerias and vegan cheese as a standard option nearly everywhere else, which reflects a city with one of the highest rates of veganism in the world.

The quality is genuinely good rather than merely available — the cheeses have improved enormously and the vegetable toppings, using Israeli produce, do a lot of the work.

A useful structural quirk: a vegan pizza is parve, so kosher meat restaurants can serve it, which has pushed the product forward faster here than elsewhere.

Good to know: Ask which vegan cheese they use — the Israeli brands differ substantially from each other.

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8. The Machane Yehuda slice counters — Machane Yehuda market, Jerusalem

A fast slice in the middle of the market, for the price of a coffee.

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Machane Yehuda and the streets around it have slice counters serving the quick lunch version — a square or a wedge, reheated, eaten standing up between market stalls.

It is not the best pizza in Jerusalem but it is the most useful: cheap, fast, and available while you are already in the market doing something else.

The market's evening transformation brings better options as the bars and restaurants open, so it is worth distinguishing the daytime slice from the night-time meal.

Good to know: Ask them to put it back in the oven — reheated properly it is a completely different slice.

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9. The late-night counters — Allenby, Rothschild and Florentin, Tel Aviv

The 3am slice, which in Tel Aviv is a genuine food category.

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Tel Aviv's nightlife runs so late that a whole segment of the pizza market exists to feed people leaving bars and clubs — counters on and around Allenby, Rothschild and in Florentin that stay open until 4am or later on the big nights.

Nobody claims this is the best pizza in the city, and that is not the criterion being applied at that hour.

It is a reliable, cheap and open answer when almost nothing else in the country is, which on a Thursday night in Tel Aviv is exactly what is wanted.

Good to know: Thursday and Friday are the late nights. Midweek most of these close much earlier.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is the best pizza in Israel?

Tel Aviv, for the Neapolitan wood-fired restaurants that have opened over the last decade with properly fermented dough and imported flour. For kosher pizza the city-centre wood-fired places in Jerusalem are the best in the country, and Jaffa is where to go if you want a pizzeria open on a Friday night.

Is pizza in Israel kosher?

In Jerusalem, almost always — kosher dairy, which means no meat toppings of any kind and no pepperoni. In Tel Aviv it is mixed, and in Jaffa mostly not. Look for the teudah at the door; mehadrin certification is common and is a stricter standard than a basic rabbanut certificate.

How much does a pizza cost in Israel?

A Neapolitan pizza in a Tel Aviv restaurant runs roughly ₪55–₪85. A Roman-style slice sold by weight is ₪15–₪30 depending on how much you take. Chain delivery is cheaper and is a different food. Pizza is not the budget option in Israel that it is in most countries.

Can you get pizza in Israel on Shabbat?

In Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa and East Jerusalem, yes. In west Jerusalem, essentially no — the kosher places close from Friday afternoon and the Old City and East Jerusalem counters are the only realistic option until Saturday night.

Is there good vegan pizza in Israel?

Tel Aviv has some of the best vegan pizza anywhere, which follows from it being one of the most vegan cities in the world. The plant-based mozzarella used in the dedicated vegan pizzerias is a long way ahead of what most countries put on a pizza.

What is Roman-style pizza al taglio?

Rectangular pizza baked in trays, cut with scissors and sold by weight rather than by the slice. The dough is wetter and the base crisper than Neapolitan, and it is designed to be eaten standing up. Tel Aviv has several counters doing it properly, and it is the best-value pizza in the country.

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