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Women in Israel comprise 50.26 percent of the state's population as of 2019. [5] While Israel lacks an official constitution, the Israeli Declaration of Independence of 1948 states that “The State of Israel (…) will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.”
The growth rate of the Arab population in Israel is 2.2%, while the growth rate of the Jewish population in Israel is 1.8%. The growth rate of the Arab population has slowed from 3.8% in 1999 to 2.2% in 2013, and for the Jewish population, the growth rate declined from 2.7% to its lowest rate of 1.4% in 2005.
While Israel is one of a small number of countries where a woman—Golda Meir—has served as Prime Minister, it is behind most Western countries in the representation of women in both the parliament and government. As of 2019, women comprise 25% of Israel's 120-member Knesset. [1]
The United Nations says more than a half million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving. In Israel, around 1,200 people were killed during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that ...
Gaza’s population dropped by 6% – about 160,000 people – in 2024, according to a new report, as Israel’s war against Hamas took a heavy toll on the Palestinian enclave’s demographics.
Sex ratio by country for total population. Blue represents more males than the world average of 1.07 males/females. (2020) The human sex ratio is the comparative number of males with respect to each female in a population. This is a list of sex ratios by country or region.
Since the war with Israel began 16 months ago, Gaza's population has fallen 6% or by about 160,000 people to 2.1 million, according to Palestinian figures released in January. ... of them women ...
Jewish women of the Yishuv in training at Mishmar HaEmek during the 1947–1949 Palestine War. Before the formal establishment of Israel in 1948, women served in combat roles within the Jewish paramilitary groups of British Palestine that would later become the central component of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); [6] the rate of women who were enlisted in combat organizations stood at 20 ...