Israel population

Israel enters new demographic era as population growth dips under 1% - study

The study revealed that the main factors for this decrease were a negative net migration rate, a stagnation in birth rates, and an expected increase in the absolute number of deaths in 2025. 

The art market on Nachalat Binyamin street in Tel Aviv, December 30, 2025.
YITZHAK RABIN and Yasser Arafat, under the gaze of then-US president Bill Clinton, sign a peace protocol on the White House lawn in 1993.

Half of Israelis fear add'l political assassinations, 30 years after Rabin's murder

 People watch the military airshow as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, in Saker Park, Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Multi-front war caused emigration from Israel, Knesset report says

 Haim Taib, Ranan Hartman, Robert Singer.

No. 41: Haim Taib, Robert Singer, Ranan Hartman: Shaping the Jewish world of tomorrow


Israel at 70: Looking ahead at the next chapter in Israel's history

The new generation of Zionists is forging the way for Israel 2048.

The Negev wilderness: A space of change, renewal and hope.

As Israel celebrates 70th birthday, population grows to 8.842 million

Israel's population is expected to reach 15.2 million citizens by its centenary celebrations in 2048.

AIRPLANES FLY over Israel for Independence Day.

Overpopulation – really?

Since when has the Jewish people had to play by the rules of other societies?

Children get close to the land on Tu Bishvat, 2005

Report: Only 26,200 Holocaust survivors will be living in Israel by 2035

The report found that at the end of 2016 there were some 186,500 Holocaust survivors living in Israel.

A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

Israel’s Senior Citizens make up 11.3% of the total population

Ahead of International Senior Citizens Day on October 1, the Central Bureau of Statistics published their findings on topics relating to Israel's 65 and up population.

Elderly couple (illustrative)

Is Israel on the right path when it comes to battling racism?

Two years ago, protests by Israelis of Ethiopian descent swept the country. The government’s response has been robust, but has anything really changed?

Jerusalem protest against discriminatory policies and racism, in April last year

Rivlin lauds Ayalim latter-day pioneers for populating Negev

The Ayalim Association was established in 2002 by a group of released soldiers who took up the challenge of creating communities in the Negev and the Galilee.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN poses with managers of Ayalim, an organization that operates student-run villages in the Negev, Galilee and other peripheral areas, at the President’s Residence yesterday.

Haredi, Arab populations grow in Jerusalem as overall growth declines

Approximately 18,000 residents moved out of Jerusalem in 2015, while 8,200 ultra-Orthodox and 7,800 Arabs moved in.

A haredi in Jerusalem

On Israel's 69th birthday, population reaches 8.68 million

The country is rapidly approaching the tipping point where the majority of the world’s Jews will be living in Israel.

A baby sits in front of an Israeli flag

Employment population ratios

Employment-population ratio in Israel and in large cities, 2015