People

People

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    People of Israel

    Israel is home to a widely diverse population from many ethnic, religious, cultural, and social backgrounds. A new society with ancient roots, it is still coalescing and evolving today. Of its 7.8 million people, 75.5 percent are Jews, 20.2 percent are Arabs (mostly Muslim) and the remaining 4.3 percent comprise Druze, Circassians, and others not classified by religion.

    The society is relatively young and is characterized by social and religious commitment, political ideology, economic resourcefulness, and cultural creativity, all of which contribute momentum to its continuing development.​ 
     
     
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    • People of Israel

      Israel is home to a widely diverse population from many ethnic, religious, cultural, and social backgrounds.​​​
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    • Religious Freedom

      The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (1948) guarantees freedom of religion for all.
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    • Jewish Society

      The Zionist movement transformed the concept of the "ingathering of the exiles" into a way of life, and the State of Israel translated it into law, granting citizenship to every Jew wishin ...
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    • Minority Communities

      Some 1.8 million people, comprising some 24 percent of Israel's population, are non-Jews.
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    • About the Jewish Religion

      Judaism, the first and oldest of the three great monotheistic faiths, is the religion and way of life of the Jewish people.
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