Demographics of israel

How Israel's migration figures are liable to affect the next election results - opinion

The figures show that the number of Israelis who left Israel for in excess of nine months in the years 2023-2025 is around 211,000.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.
Israelis enjoy Rosh Hashanah fair at a social complex in Jerusalem, September 19, 2025

Rosh Hashanah 2025: Israeli population crosses 10 million ahead of Jewish New Year

Jews and others account for roughly 7.76 million residents, or 78.5% of the total population, while Arabs number approximately 2.13 million, representing 21.5%.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.

Muslim fertility rate in Israel continues 22-year fall as Eid al-Adha approaches

Jerusalem has the highest population of Muslims in the country - with around 380 thousand people, which makes up more than a third of city's residents.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Orthodox family in Jerusalem’s Sacher Park

Family size and structure are rapidly changing in Israeli society, Taub study finds

Although the marriage rate here is similar to that in other high-income countries, Israel is more similar to neighboring developing countries in terms of birthrate than to high-income ones.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Is Israel a true democracy?

Maybe it is an oligarchy, or an aristocracy, or some sort of anarchistic monarchy? What I do know for sure is that no one actually cares.

MAY 15, 2014ByLIOR AKERMAN
The Knesset

In my own write: ‘I love my idea of you’

Disembodied relationships are on the rise.

FEBRUARY 25, 2014ByJUDY MONTAGU
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