Editing Demographics of Israel (section)

=== Arabs ===
{{Main|Arab citizens of Israel}}
[[File:Arabs Israel 2018.png|thumb|Arabs in Israel, by natural region, 2018]]
Arab citizens of Israel are those Arab residents of Mandatory Palestine that remained within Israel's borders following the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]] and the [[establishment of the State of Israel]]. It is including those born within the state borders subsequent to this time, as well as those who had left during the establishment of the state (or their descendants), who have since re-entered by means accepted as lawful residence by the Israeli state (primarily family reunifications).

In 2019, the official number of Arab residents in Israel was 1,890,000 people, representing 21% of Israel's population.<ref name="population_stat2019">{{cite report |url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2019/134/11_19_134b.pdf |title=Israel's Independence Day 2019 |date=6 May 2019 |publisher=Israel Central Bureau of Statistics |access-date=7 May 2019}}</ref> This figure includes 209,000 Arabs (14% of the Israeli Arab population) in East Jerusalem, also counted in the Palestinian statistics, although 98 percent of East Jerusalem Palestinians have either Israeli residency or Israeli citizenship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/hodaot2007n/11_07_084b.doc |title=Selected Statistics on Jerusalem Day 2007 (Hebrew) |date=14 May 2007 |publisher=[[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics]] |access-date=8 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128143317/http://www.cbs.gov.il/hodaot2007n/11_07_084b.doc |archive-date=28 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

'''Arab Muslims'''

Most Arab citizens of Israel are Muslim, particularly of the [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] branch of Islam. A small minority are [[Ahmadiyya in Israel|Ahmadiyya]] sect and there are also some [[Alawites]] (affiliated with Shia Islam) in the northernmost village of [[Ghajar]] with Israeli citizenship. As of 2019, Arab citizens of Israel composed 21 percent of the country's total population.<ref name="population_stat2019" /> About 82 percent of the Arab population in Israel are Sunni Muslims, a very small minority are Shia Muslims, another 9 percent are [[Druze in Israel|Druze]], and around 9 percent are Christian (mostly [[Eastern Orthodox]] and Catholic denominations).

'''Bedouin'''{{Main|Israeli Bedouin}}
The Arab Muslim citizens of Israel include also the Bedouins, who are divided into two main groups: the Bedouin in the north of Israel, who live in villages and towns for the most part, and the Bedouin in the [[Negev]], who include half-nomadic and inhabitants of towns and [[Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel|Unrecognized villages]]. According to the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], as of 1999, 110,000 [[Bedouin]]s live in the Negev, 50,000 in the Galilee and 10,000 in the central region of Israel.<ref name="Bedouin Demographics">{{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1999/7/The+Bedouin+in+Israel.htm |title=The Bedouin in Israel |last=Ben-David |first=Yosef |date=1 July 1999 |publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> The vast majority of Arab Bedouins of Israel practice Sunni Islam.

'''Ahmadiyya'''

The [[Ahmadiyya in Israel|Ahmadiyya community]] was first established in the region in the 1920s, in what was then [[Mandatory Palestine]]. There is a large community in [[Kababir]], a neighborhood on [[Mount Carmel]] in [[Haifa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haifatrail.com/haifa-trail-segment14-eng.htm#./images/sect-14/Haifa-Trail-Sect14-P1610817.jpg |title=Kababir and Central Carmel – Multiculturalism on the Carmel |access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visit-haifa.org/eng/Kababir |title=Visit Haifa |access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref> It is unknown how many Israeli Ahmadis there are, although it is estimated there are about 2,200 Ahmadis in Kababir alone.<ref name="israelandyou">{{cite web|url=http://www.israelandyou.com/kababir/ |title=Kababir |publisher=Israel and You |access-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130170337/http://www.israelandyou.com/kababir/ |archive-date=30 January 2015 |date=3 January 2015 }}</ref>

'''Arab Christians'''

As of December 2013, about 161,000 Israeli citizens practiced Christianity, together comprising about 2% of the total population.<ref name="MFA2014">{{cite web|url=http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Spotlight/Pages/The-Christian-communities-in-Israel-May-2014.aspx |title=The Christian communities in Israel |publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date=1 May 2014 |access-date=3 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017004653/http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Spotlight/Pages/The-Christian-communities-in-Israel-May-2014.aspx |archive-date=17 October 2015 }}</ref> The largest group consists of [[Melkite]]s (about 60% of Israel's Christians), followed by the Greek Orthodox (about 30%), with the remaining ca. 10% spread between the Roman Catholic (Latin), Maronite, Anglican, Lutheran, Armenian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Coptic and other denominations.<ref name="MFA2014" />

'''Druze'''{{Main|Druze in Israel}}
The Arab citizens of Israel include also the [[Druze]], who numbered at an estimated 143,000 in April 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2019/האוכלוסייה-הדרוזית-בישראל-לקט-נתונים-לרגל-חג-הנביא-שועייב.aspx|title=האוכלוסייה הדרוזית בישראל – לקט נתונים לרגל חג הנביא שועייב (The Druze population in Israel – a collection of data on the occasion of the Prophet Shuaib holiday)|date=17 April 2019|publisher=Central Bureau of Statistics, State of Israel|language=he-IL|access-date=8 May 2019}}</ref> All of the [[Druze]] living in what was then [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate Palestine]] became Israeli citizens after the declaration of the State of Israel. Druze serve prominently in the [[Israel Defense Forces]], and are represented in mainstream Israeli politics and business as well, unlike Muslim or Christian Arabs who are not required to and generally choose not to serve in the Israeli army. Though a few individuals identify themselves as "Palestinian Druze",<ref>{{cite news |title=Balad's MK-to-be: 'Anti-Israelization' conscientious objector |first1=Jack |last1=Khoury |first2=Yoav |last2=Stern |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/balad-s-mk-to-be-anti-israelization-conscientious-objector-1.219514 |newspaper=Haaretz |date=2 May 2007 |access-date=18 October 2012}}</ref> the vast majority of Druze do not consider themselves to be 'Palestinian', and consider their Israeli identity stronger than their [[Arab identity]]. A 2017 [[Pew Research Center]] poll reported that the majority of the Israeli Druze identified as ethnically [[Arab]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Israel's Religiously Divided Society|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/|publisher=Pew Research Center|access-date=8 December 2017|date=8 March 2016}}</ref>