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According to the 2009 Statistical Abstract of Israel by Israel Central Bureau of Statistics; 2,043.8k israeli jews were Israel born (father born in Israel), 681.4k were from other asian countries (including 45.6k from Indian and Pakistani), 859.1k from African countries (including 106.9k from ethiopia), and 1,939.4k were from Europe, America ...
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.
[11] [12] [6] The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has placed rabbis of Mizrahi origin in Israel under the jurisdiction of the Sephardi chief rabbis. [12] Following the First Arab–Israeli War, over 850,000 Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews were expelled or evacuated from Arab and Muslim-majority countries between 1948 and the early 1980s.
Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for years, fed by waves of Jewish immigration from round the world, most notably the massive immigration wave of Soviet Jews, which arrived in Israel in the early 1990s following the dissolution of the USSR, who, according to the Law of Return, were entitled to become Israeli ...
World Economic Forum: Human Capital Report 2017, [10] ranked 18th out of 130; World Economic Forum: Inclusive Development Index 2018, [11] ranked 31st out of 103 countries; World Bank: Ease of doing business index 2020, [12] (2019 rankings), ranked 35th out of 190 countries; World Bank: Logistics Performance Index 2016, [13] ranked 28th out of 160
The term Mizrahi is used in Israel in the language of politics, media and some social scientists for Jews from the Arab world and adjacent, primarily Muslim-majority countries. The definition of Mizrahi includes the modern Iraqi Jews , Syrian Jews , Lebanese Jews , Persian Jews , Afghan Jews , Bukharian Jews , Kurdish Jews , Mountain Jews ...
Among the Israeli-born Jewish population, most are descended from Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Sephardic Jews, Ethiopian Jews, and other Jewish ethnic divisions. Due to the historically large Mizrahi population and decades of ethnic intermixing, over 50% of Israel's current Jewish population is of at least partial Mizrahi descent.
Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete. In particular, it excludes many Jewish-majority cities in Israel. Many of the U.S. cities have their data sourced from the Jewish Data Bank, which records population statistics for service areas that encompass many counties in a metropolitan area. [6]