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The definition of what constitutes the population of Israel varies depending on which territories are counted and which population groups are counted in each territory. The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) definition of the Area of the State of Israel: [5] includes East Jerusalem since 1967, which Israel unilaterally annexed
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ethnic group Israelis ישראלים إسرائيليون Flag of Israel Map of the Israeli diaspora Regions with significant populations Israel c. 9.8 million (including occupied territories) United States 106,839 – 500,000 Russia 100,000 (80,000 in Moscow) [6] India 40–70,000 [7 ...
The following article lists sovereign states, dependent territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries.
Renan had acknowledged the importance of the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Israel etc. but called the Semitic races inferior to the Aryan for their monotheism, which he held to arise from their supposed lustful, violent, unscrupulous and selfish racial instincts. Steinthal summed up these predispositions as "Semitism", and so ...
For the Greeks, even today, ethnicity has greater significance than for many other peoples. [1] [2] [3] After all, during the three century long Islamic-Ottoman occupation, the Greeks managed to preserve their culture, Greek Orthodox faith, language and identity unharmed; and from 1821 onwards, they were able to re-establish their own sovereign state with an intact ethnicity.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the late 19th century, amid attempts to apply science to notions of race, the founders of Zionism (Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau, among others) sought to reformulate conceptions of Jewishness in terms of racial identity and the "race science" of the time. They believed that this concept would ...
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Being part of the phenomenon of the aging of Europe, the Greek population shows a rapid increase of the percentage of the elderly people. Greece's population census of 1961 found that 10.9% of the total population was above the age of 65, while the percentage of this group age increased to 19.0% in 2011.