Demographics of israel

How Israel's migration figures are liable to affect the next election results - opinion

The figures show that the number of Israelis who left Israel for in excess of nine months in the years 2023-2025 is around 211,000.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.
Israelis enjoy Rosh Hashanah fair at a social complex in Jerusalem, September 19, 2025

Rosh Hashanah 2025: Israeli population crosses 10 million ahead of Jewish New Year

Jews and others account for roughly 7.76 million residents, or 78.5% of the total population, while Arabs number approximately 2.13 million, representing 21.5%.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.

Muslim fertility rate in Israel continues 22-year fall as Eid al-Adha approaches

Jerusalem has the highest population of Muslims in the country - with around 380 thousand people, which makes up more than a third of city's residents.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Orthodox family in Jerusalem’s Sacher Park

Family size and structure are rapidly changing in Israeli society, Taub study finds

Although the marriage rate here is similar to that in other high-income countries, Israel is more similar to neighboring developing countries in terms of birthrate than to high-income ones.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Israeli demographics present economic challenges, study finds

Israel's life expectancy, it noted, is higher than the OECD average. Without increses in the retirement age, the report argued, people will be spending in retirement will increase 1.5 times by 2055.

AUGUST 8, 2016ByNIV ELIS
Dozens of rabbis, yeshiva deans, and leaders from the haredi community, including Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages, travelled to Radun and prayed first at the building which formerly housed the yeshiva of the Hafetz Haim, and then by his gravesite itself.

Lies, damn lies and demographics: Are Jews now a minority between the river and the sea?

Israeli statisticians bemoan "inflated" Palestinian figures, which suggest Arabs outnumber Jews across Israel and the Palestinian territories.

JULY 12, 2016ByZACK PYZER
Jewish youth gather outside Damascus gate on 'Jerusalem Day,' May 17, 2015.

Netanyahu's Peace Summit

JUNE 9, 2016ByBARUCH STEIN
The Jerusalem Post

When somebody begins a sentence, ‘I’m not a racist, but...’

For 2,000 years, Jews have lived as a minority – we should know better how to treat others.

APRIL 10, 2016ByJEFF BARAK
Bezalel Smotrich.

A Plea For Reason: An Open Letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu

FEBRUARY 23, 2016ByDR. ALON BEN-MEIR
The Jerusalem Post

CBS: In 35 years, Israeli life expectancy has risen by nine years

Ramat Gan has highest longevity among cities

OCTOBER 30, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Illustrative photo of elderly couple

In rebuke to Taub, spin-off Shoresh publishes competing report

Shoresh, Ben-David says, does not accept money from persons or organizations “that can paint us in any way, either right wing or left wing, and certainly not the government."

OCTOBER 14, 2015ByNIV ELIS
Dan Ben-David

‘Self-ghettoization’ in the State of Israel

In Israel, we are afraid of the other, of those that are different than us.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015ByALAN FELD
A Jewish youth wears a 3D printed kippa made by computer science Prof. Craig Kaplan of University of Waterloo in Ontario

On eve of Jewish New Year, Israel's population hits 8.4 million

Israel's population will hit 10 million between 2025-2030, according to CBS forecast.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Children playing soccer (file)

Fight using aliya, not concessions, says Hotovely

The deputy foreign minister says “Israel has to return to its vision of ingathering of the exiles."

JUNE 9, 2015ByHERB KEINON
New immigrants from Ukraine make aliya, December 30, 2014