Editing Demographics of Israel (section)

=== Jews ===
{{Main|Israeli Jews|Gerim}}

According to [[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics|Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics]], in 2008, of Israel's 7.3&nbsp;million people, 75.6 percent were Jews of any background.<ref name="CBS_month_pop">{{cite web|url=http://www1.cbs.gov.il/publications13/yarhon0413/pdf/b1.pdf |title=Population, by Population Group |date=31 December 2013 |work=Monthly Bulletin of Statistics |publisher=Israel Central Bureau of Statistics |access-date=17 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203172044/http://www1.cbs.gov.il/publications13/yarhon0413/pdf/b1.pdf |archive-date=3 February 2014 }}</ref> Among them, 70.3 percent were [[Sabra (person)|Sabras]] (born in Israel), mostly second- or third-generation Israelis, and the rest are [[Aliyah|olim]] (Jewish immigrants to Israel)—20.5 percent from Europe and the Americas, and 9.2 percent from Asia and Africa, including the [[Arab world|Arab countries]].<ref name="CBS_2008_jews_origin">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2009/2.Shnaton%20Population/st02_24x.pdf|title=Table 2.24 – Jews, by country of origin and age |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref>

According to [[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics|Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics]], in April 2023, of Israel's 9.7 million people, 73.5 percent, or 7.145 million, were Jews of any background.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Israel's Independence Day 2023 |url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/mediarelease/Pages/2023/Israel-Independence-Day-2023.aspx |access-date=2023-07-19 |publisher=Central Bureau of Statistics, State of Israel |language=en-US}}</ref>

There are no government statistics categorizing Israeli Jews as "Ashkenazi", "Mizrahi", etc, but studies and estimates have been conducted.<ref>{{Cite news |title=When It Comes to Education, Israel's Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Divide Is Still Growing |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-06-11/ty-article/.premium/when-it-comes-to-education-israels-ashkenazi-mizrahi-divide-is-still-growing/0000017f-f4cd-ddde-abff-fced39a60000 |access-date=2023-07-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maldonado |first=Pablo Jairo Tutillo |date=2018-03-27 |title=How Iraqi Jews are reclaiming their cultural legacy in Israel |url=https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/global-judaism/iraqi-jews-music-mizrahi-reclaiming-heritage-israel/ |access-date=2023-07-14 |publisher=UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies |language=en-US}}</ref> In a 2019 study, in a sample meant to be representative of the Israeli Jewish population, about 44.9% percent of Israel's Jewish population were categorized as [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] (defined as having grandparents born in North Africa or Asia), 31.8% were categorized as [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] (defined as having grandparents born in Europe, the Americas, Oceania and South Africa), 12.4% as "[[1990s post-Soviet aliyah|Soviet]]" (defined as having progenitors who came from the ex-USSR in 1989 or later), about 3% as [[Beta Israel]] (Ethiopia) and 7.9% as a mix of these, or other Jewish groups.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lewin-Epstein|first1=Noah|last2=Cohen|first2=Yinon|date=18 August 2019|title=Ethnic origin and identity in the Jewish population of Israel|journal=Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies|volume=45|issue=11|pages=2118–2137|doi=10.1080/1369183X.2018.1492370|s2cid=149653977|issn=1369-183X}}</ref> Note that this methodology isn't exact: See, for example, [[Bulgarian Jews in Israel|Bulgarian]] or [[Greek Jews]], who would be categorized as Ashkenazi according to this definition, although they are overwhelmingly Sephardic.

The paternal lineage of the Jewish population of Israel as of 2015 is as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Recent ''paternal'' ancestral background of Israeli Jews
! rowspan=2 | Countries of Origin
! colspan=3 | Population
! colspan=3 | Percentage
|-
! Share
! 2015<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2016/2.ShnatonPopulation/st02_08x.pdf|title=Table 2.8 – Jews, by country of origin and age|access-date=11 March 2019|publisher=[[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics]]}}</ref>
! 2008<ref name="CBS_2008_jews_origin" />
! Share
! 2015
! 2008
|-style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#CEE0F2;"
|Total
| {{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|6,276,800
|align=right|5,523,700
|{{center|-}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|100}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|100}}
|-style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#E6F2FF;"
|From Israel by paternal country of origin:
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|2,765,500
|align=right|2,043,800
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|44.06}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|37}}
|-style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#E6F2FF;"
|From Europe by own or paternal country of origin:
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|1,648,000
|align=right|1,662,800
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|26.26}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|30.1}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Russia|Russia]] and [[History of the Jews in the Soviet Union|former USSR]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|891,700
|align=right|923,600
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|14.21}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|16.83}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Romania|Romania]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|199,400
|align=right|213,100
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.18}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.86}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Poland|Poland]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|185,400
|align=right|198,500
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.95}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.59}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in France|France]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|87,500
|align=right|63,200
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.39}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.14}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Germany|Germany]] and [[History of the Jews in Austria|Austria]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|70,800
|align=right|49,700
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.13}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.9}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Hungary|Hungary]], [[History of the Jews in the Czech Republic|Czech Republic]], and [[History of the Jews in Slovakia|Slovakia]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|59,800
|align=right|64,900
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.95}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.17}}
|-
|[[British Jews|United Kingdom]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|46,000
|align=right|39,800
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.73}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.72}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] and [[History of the Jews in Greece|Greece]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|45,500
|align=right|48,900
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.72}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.89}}
|-
|Other [[History of the Jews in Europe|European]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|61,900
|align=right|61,100
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.99}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.11}}
|-style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#E6F2FF;"
| From Africa by own or paternal country of origin:
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|897,300
|align=right|859,100
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|14.3}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|15.53}}
|-
|[[Moroccan Jews|Morocco]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|484,500
|align=right|486,600
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|7.72}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|8.81}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Algeria|Algeria]] and [[History of the Jews in Tunisia|Tunisia]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|133,500
|align=right|120,600
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.13}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.18}}
|-
|[[Beta Israel|Ethiopia]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|133,200
|align=right|106,900
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.12}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.94}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Libya|Libya]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|66,800
|align=right|67,400
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.06}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.22}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Egypt|Egypt]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|54,600
|align=right|55,800
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.87}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.01}}
|-
|Other [[History of the Jews in Africa|African]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|24,700
|align=right|17,200
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.39}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.31}}
|-style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#E6F2FF;"
| From Asia by own or paternal country of origin:
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|674,500
|align=right|681,400
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|10.75}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|12.33}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Iraq|Iraq]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|225,800
|align=right|233,500
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.6}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|4.23}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Iran|Iran]] ([[Persian Jews|Persia]])
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|140,100
|align=right|134,700
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.23}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.44}}
|-
|[[Yemenite Jews|Yemen]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|134,100
|align=right|138,300
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.14}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.5}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Turkey|Turkey]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|74,600 
|align=right|76,900
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.19}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.39}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in India|India]] and [[History of the Jews in Pakistan|Pakistan]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|47,600
|align=right|45,600
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.76}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.83}}
|-
|[[Syrian Jews|Syria]] and [[History of the Jews in Lebanon|Lebanon]]
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|align=right|34,500
|align=right|35,300
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.55}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.64}}
|-
|Other Asian
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|18,000
|align=right|17,200
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.29}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.31}}
|-style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#E6F2FF;"
|From the Americas and Oceania by own or paternal country of origin:
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|291,500
|align=right|249,800
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|4.64}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|4.52}}
|-
|[[American Jews|United States]], [[History of the Jews in Canada|Canada]], [[Australian Jews|Australia]], and [[History of the Jews in New Zealand|New Zealand]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|181,000
|align=right|149,200
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.88}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|2.7}}
|-
|[[History of the Jews in Argentina|Argentina]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|62,600
|align=right|59,400
|{{center|{{decrease}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|1.08}}
|-
|Other [[History of the Jews in Latin America and the Caribbean|Latin American]]
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|align=right|47,900
|align=right|41,200
|{{center|{{increase}}}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.76}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|0.75}}
|}