Israel jewish population

Safed Rabbinical Court may close this fall despite strong local demand

Several rabbis wrote a letter to the chief rabbi opposing the decision, and the Rabbinical Courts Administration said it is doing everything "in its power" to stop the closure, the report said.

 Buildings in old city, Safed, Northern District, Israel.
People rush to a public shelter in the city of Ramla after a siren warning of incoming missiles fired toward Israel amid the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, March 9, 2026.

Most Israeli Jews support war against Iran, while most Israeli Arabs oppose it, survey reveals

 Illustration of Israeli public support for military action in Iran, June 17, 2025.

Public support for Iran strikes high among Jewish Israelis, deeply divided from Arab Israelis

Girls walk on the outskirts of the Bedouin city of Rahat, southern Israel

IDI: Stark disparities in shelters, protective structures for Arab vs. Jewish localities


Settlers excluded from Chief Rabbinate Council selection committee

National Union MKs express outrage and call for the council election to be postponed until the situation is rectified.

The rabbis of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate

Overpopulation – really?

Since when has the Jewish people had to play by the rules of other societies?

Children get close to the land on Tu Bishvat, 2005

What are the most popular Jewish baby names in Israel?

From Avi to Yosef, biblical to modern and everything in between.

Babies (Illustrative)

Report: Only 26,200 Holocaust survivors will be living in Israel by 2035

The report found that at the end of 2016 there were some 186,500 Holocaust survivors living in Israel.

A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

Harvest for the World

The Jerusalem Post

Racing toward disaster: Israel's unsustainable population bomb

There was a time when having a large family in Israel may have been a patriotic act.

An athlete runs with an Israeli flag during the fifth international Jerusalem Marathon, March 13, 2015.

Haredi, Arab populations grow in Jerusalem as overall growth declines

Approximately 18,000 residents moved out of Jerusalem in 2015, while 8,200 ultra-Orthodox and 7,800 Arabs moved in.

A haredi in Jerusalem

Anti-Semitism in the Armenian press: “Driving forces of treacherous hatred”

The Jerusalem Post

On Israel's 69th birthday, population reaches 8.68 million

The country is rapidly approaching the tipping point where the majority of the world’s Jews will be living in Israel.

A baby sits in front of an Israeli flag

Now is the time for Israel and American Jewry to work together

What a bitter irony to live in a world in which Israel is the one country in which a Jew does not have the freedom to express his or her Judaism.

Western Wall