Jerusalem District

This article is about the Israeli administrative district. For the district in Mandatory Palestine, see Jerusalem Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine. For the administrative district of the Palestinian Authority, see Quds Governorate.
Jerusalem District
District of Israel
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 • Hebrewמחוז ירושלים‎
 • Arabicمنطقة القدس
Coordinates: 31°45′N 35°00′E / 31.750°N 35.000°E / 31.750; 35.000
Cities2
Local councils3
Regional council1
CapitalJerusalem
Government
 • District Commissioner[2]Haim Yifrach[1]
Area
 • Total
652 km2 (252 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[3]
 • Total
1,245,100
 • Density1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi)
ISO 3166 codeIL-JM

The Jerusalem District (Hebrew: מחוז ירושלים; Arabic: منطقة القدس) is one of the six administrative districts of Israel. The district capital is Jerusalem and its total land area is 652 km2. The population of 1,159,900 is 66.3% Jewish and 32.1% Arab.[4] A fifth (21%) of the Arabs in Israel live in the Jerusalem Municipality, which includes both East and West Jerusalem.[5] Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem has not been recognized by the international community.[6]

The majority of Arabs in the Jerusalem District are Palestinians, eligible to apply for citizenship under Israeli law, but either decline to apply or are unsuccessful in doing so.[citation needed] Arab citizens of Israel constitute a significant minority in the district, living in Abu Ghosh, Beit Safafa and East Jerusalem, where Arab professionals have settled since the late 1970s, mainly for the provision of legal and other services to the local population.[citation needed] The non-Jewish population is 95.2% Muslim, 3.5% Christian with the others unclassified by religion.[7]

Geographical distribution of the main ethno-cultural communities, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Central districts.[8]
  1. ^ "בעלי תפקידים במשרד הפנים".
  2. ^ Transfer of Power (District Commissioners and District Officers) Law, 5724-1964, Laws of the State of Israel vol. 18 no 38. (pp. 70-71)
  3. ^ "Localities by Population, by District, Sub-District and Type of Locality". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference cbs-populations was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ The Future of the Global Muslim Population Archived 2013-07-25 at the Wayback Machine, PEW Forum
  6. ^ "Jerusalem: Israeli police hit in Palestinian car attack". BBC. 6 March 2015.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference cbs-population-groups was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ ""8. אוכלוסייה ביישובים ובאזורים סטטיסטיים, לפי דת, סוף 2019"". Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel).