Israelis

This article is about the pan-ethnic populace of the modern State of Israel. For the ancient people, see Israelites. For a demographical overview, see Demographics of Israel.

Israelis
ישראלים‎
إسرائيليون‎
Flag of Israel
Map of the Israeli diaspora
Regions with significant populations
Israelc. 9.8 million (including occupied territories)[1]
United States106,839[2] – 500,000[3][4]
Russia100,000 (80,000 in Moscow)[5][6]
India40–70,000[7]
United Kingdom11,892[8] – 50,000[8][9][10]
Canada21,320[11]
Australia15,000[12]
Netherlands10,371[13]
Germany10,000[14][15][16]
Languages
Hebrew (official)
Arabic (recognized)
English, Russian, French, Amharic, Tigrinya, various others (see languages of Israel)
Religion
Majority:
Judaism
Minority:
Islam, Christianity, Druzism, Samaritanism, Baháʼí Faith

Israelis (Hebrew: יִשְׂרְאֵלִים‎, romanized: Yīśreʾēlīm; Arabic: إسرائيليون, romanized: Isrāʾīliyyūn) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel. The country's populace is composed primarily of Jews and Arabs, who respectively account for 75 percent and 20 percent of the national figure, followed by other ethnic and religious minorities, who account for 5 percent.[17]

Early Israeli culture was largely defined by communities of the Jewish diaspora who had made aliyah to British Palestine from Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Later Jewish immigration from Ethiopia, the states of the former Soviet Union, and the Americas introduced new cultural elements to Israeli society and have had a profound impact on modern Israeli culture.

Since Israel's independence in 1948, Israelis and people of Israeli descent have had a considerable diaspora, which largely overlaps with the Jewish diaspora but also with that of other ethnic and religious groups; it is estimated that almost 10 percent of the general Israeli population lives abroad, particularly in Russia (with Moscow housing the single largest Israeli community outside of Israel), India, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and throughout Europe.[18]

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  2. ^ Ancestry: 2000 Archived 4 December 2004 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
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  5. ^ [100,000 Former Soviet Jews in Israel Return To Russia, By Michael Mainville, The Toronto Star]
  6. ^ Israelis Find A Lively Jewish Niche in Moscow Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine by Rena Greenberg – Moscow, Russia, 19 March 2014
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  10. ^ "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
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  12. ^ Dan Goldberg (3 July 2012). "Jews Down Under are on the rise, but for how long?". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  13. ^ "CBS". Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  14. ^ Hagin, Adi (16 September 2011). "Why are Israelis moving to Germany?". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  15. ^ Assaf Uni (3 September 2012). "Israelis in Berlin buying their strudel with welfare". Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  16. ^ Doron Halutz (21 January 2011). "Unkosher Nightlife and Holocaust Humor: Israelis Learn to Love the New Berlin". Spiegel Online. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  17. ^ "Statistical Abstract of Israel 2015". Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  18. ^ Eric, Gold; Moav, Omer (2006), Brain Drain From Israel (Brichat Mochot M'Yisrael) (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Mercaz Shalem – The Shalem Center, The Social-Economic Institute, p. 26, archived from the original on 10 May 2017, retrieved 1 March 2016.