What type of people make up Israel and how does that influence the country?

Answer 1

Israel is 74.5% Jewish, 20.9% Arab, and 4.6% others.

Of the Jews, there are the following regions of emigration to Israel, in descending numbers:

Former Soviet Union, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Yemen, Iran, Algeria+Tunisia, North America, Germany+Austria, Turkey, Libya, Egypt, Bulgaria+Greece, India+Pakistan, Argentina, Hungary, former Czechoslovakia, and South Africa; plus several hundred thousand from other countries in Asia, South America and Europe combined.

Answer 2

• Ethnicity:
  

First of all, note that people born Jewish, both Sephardim and Ashkenazim, are one ethnicity. This has been conclusively demonstrated by DNA analyses.Israel is 74.5% Jewish, 20.9% Arab, and 4.6% others.

Of the Jews, there are the following nations or regions (not ethnicity) of emigration to Israel, in descending numbers:

Former Soviet Union, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Yemen, Iran, Algeria+Tunisia, North America, Germany+Austria, Turkey, Libya, Egypt, Bulgaria+Greece, India+Pakistan, Argentina, Hungary, former Czechoslovakia, and South Africa; plus several hundred thousand from the rest of Asia, South America and Europe combined (small numbers from each unspecified country in these regions).

The statistic of 20.7% Arabs includes about 185,000 Bedouins, 130,000 Druze, and 7,000 Maronites.

The statistic of 4.3% who are neither Jewish nor Arabs, includes relatively small groups of non-Arab Christians, non-Arab Muslims, Copts, Samaritans, non-Jewish Argentines, Armenians, Circassians, Assyrians, non-Jewish Slavs, Roma, and smaller numbers of others.

There is also a significant number of African refugees who are non-citizens, and non-Jewish workers from Asia and elsewhere. These two groups number some 350,000 people.

• Religion:
  

Israel is about 75% Jewish and 25% other religions, including Islam and Christianity.
The State of Israel has a population of approximately 8,465,000 inhabitants as of 2016. 75% are Jewish (about 6,335,000 individuals), 16% are Muslim (about 1,454,000 inhabitants), while the remaining 8.7% (about 700,000 individuals) include: Christians (2%), Druze (1.5%), Bahai, residents who do not have a religious classification (4%), and family members of Jewish immigrants who were not registered at the Interior Ministry as Jews.
Note:
Israel has no required religion, and there is no religious test for citizenship or any other rights.See also the related links.

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