Editing Demographics of Israel (section)

=== Other citizens ===
'''Copts'''

Some 1,000 Israeli citizens belong to the [[Copts|Coptic]] community, originating in Egypt.

'''Samaritans'''{{Main|Samaritans}}
The [[Samaritans]] are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Ancestrally, they claim descent from a group of Israelite inhabitants who have connections to ancient Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of the Common Era. 2007 population estimates show that 712 Samaritans live half in [[Holon, Israel]] and half at [[Mount Gerizim]] in the West Bank. The Holon community holds Israeli citizenship, while the Gerizim community resides at an Israeli-controlled enclave, holding dual Israeli-Palestinian citizenship.

'''Armenians'''{{Main|Armenians in Israel}}
About 4,000 [[Armenians]] reside in Israel mostly in Jerusalem (including in the [[Armenian Quarter]]), but also in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jaffa. Armenians have a Patriarchate in Jerusalem and churches in Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa. Although Armenians of [[Old Jerusalem]] have Israeli identity cards, they are officially holders of Jordanian passports.<ref>Joyce M. Davis. [http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=548&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=HQ&pageno=3 Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter]. Catholic Near East Welfare Association.</ref>

'''Circassians'''{{Main|Circassians in Israel}}
[[File:Circassians in Israel.Jpg|thumb|Circassians in [[Kfar Kama]]]]
In Israel, there are also a few thousand [[Circassians]], living mostly in [[Kfar Kama]] (2,000) and [[Rehaniya|Reyhaniye]] (1,000).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.circassianworld.com/Israel.html |title=Circassians in Israel |publisher=Circassian World |access-date=5 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416043854/http://www.circassianworld.com/Israel.html |archive-date=16 April 2013 }}</ref> These two villages were a part of a greater group of Circassian villages around the [[Golan Heights]]. The Circassians in Israel enjoy, like [[Druze]]s, a ''status aparte''. Male Circassians (at their leader's request) are mandated for military service, while females are not.

'''People from post-Soviet states'''[[File:Russophone shop in Haifa.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Russophone]] shop in [[Haifa]]]]
Ethnic [[Russians]], [[Ukrainians]], and [[Belarusians]], immigrants from the [[Post-Soviet states|former Soviet Union]], who were eligible to emigrate due to having, or being married to somebody who has, at least one Jewish grandparent and thus qualified for Israeli citizenship under the revised [[Law of Return]]. A number of these immigrants also belong to various ethnic groups from the Former Soviet Union such as [[Armenians]], [[Georgians]], [[Azeris]], [[Uzbeks]], [[Moldovans]], [[Tatars]], among others. Some of them, having a Jewish father or grandfather, identify as Jews, but being non-Jewish by Orthodox [[Halakha]] (religious law), they are not recognized formally as Jews by the state. Most of them are in the mainstream of Israel culture and are called "expanded Jewish population". In addition, a certain number of former Soviet citizens, primarily women of Russian and Ukrainian ethnicity, emigrated to Israel, after marrying Muslim or Christian Arab citizens of Israel, who went to study in the former Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. 1,557,698 people from the current Russia and Ukraine live in Israel.<ref>Israel Central Bureau of Statistics</ref>

'''Finns'''

Although most people of Finnish origin in Israel are [[Finnish Jews]] who immigrated to Israel, and their descendants, a small number of Finnish Christians moved to Israel in the 1940s before independence and gained citizenship following independence. For the most part, many of the original Finnish settlers intermarried with the other communities in the country, and therefore remain very small in number. A [[Moshav shitufi]] near Jerusalem named [[Yad HaShmona]], meaning the "Memorial for the Eight", was established in 1971 by a group of Finnish Christian-Israelis, although today, most members are Israeli, and are predominantly Hebrew speakers, and the moshav has become a center of [[Messianic Jews]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.finland.org.il/public/default.aspx?nodeid=39222&contentlan=2&culture=en-US |title=Finnish associations&nbsp;– Embassy of Finland, Tel Aviv |publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland |access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/02/07/readers-recall-heroic-war-efforts/ |title=Readers Recall Heroic War Efforts |last=Landers |first=Ann |date=7 February 1997 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref>

'''Baháʼís'''

The population of followers of the [[Baháʼí Faith]] in Israel is almost entirely made up of volunteers serving at the [[Baháʼí World Centre]]. [[Bahá'u'lláh]] (1817–1892), the Faith's founder, was banished to [[Acre, Israel|Akka]] and died nearby where his shrine is located. During his lifetime he instructed his followers not to teach or convert those living in the area, and the Baháʼís descending from those original immigrants were later asked to leave and teach elsewhere. For nearly a century there has been a policy by Baháʼí leaders to not accept converts living in Israel. The 650 or so foreign national Baháʼís living in Israel are almost all on temporary duty serving at the shrines and administrative offices.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ganbahai.org.il/en/learn-more/bahai-community/worldwide-community |title=The Worldwide Baháʼí Community |website=Bahai.org |access-date=13 July 2018 |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026115920/https://www.ganbahai.org.il/en/learn-more/bahai-community/worldwide-community |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Nechemia Meyers (1995). "Peace to all nations – Baha'is Establish Israel's Second Holy Mountain". The World & I. Retrieved 5 March 2015</ref><ref>Donald H. Harrison (3 April 1998). "The Fourth Faith". Jewish Sightseeing (Haifa, Israel). Retrieved 5 March 2015</ref>

'''Vietnamese'''

The number of [[Overseas Vietnamese|Vietnamese people]] in Israel and their descendants is estimated at 150 to 200.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/35-years-on-where-are-israels-vietnamese-refugees/ | title=35 years on, where are Israel's Vietnamese refugees?| website=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref> Most of them came to Israel in between 1976 and 1979, after prime minister [[Menachem Begin]] authorized their admission to Israel and granted them political asylum. The Vietnamese people living in Israel are Israeli citizens who also serve in the [[Israel Defense Forces]]. Today, the majority of the community lives in the [[Gush Dan]] area in the center of Tel Aviv, but also a few dozen Vietnamese-Israelis or Israelis of Vietnamese origin live in [[Haifa]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Ofakim]].

'''African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem'''{{Main|African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem}}
The African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem is a religious sect<ref name="jpost.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Distrust-in-Dimona|title=Distrust in Dimona – Magazine – Jerusalem Post|website=The Jerusalem Post|date=8 December 2005 |access-date=18 April 2019}}</ref> of Black [[African Americans|Americans]], founded in 1960 by Ben Carter<ref name="religion.info">{{Cite web|url=https://www.religion.info/2006/10/09/israel-une-visite-chez-les-hebreux-noirs/|title=Israël: une visite chez les Hébreux noirs}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last1=Lazareva | first1=Inna | last2=Aviv | first2=Tel | title=Black Hebrews mourn the man who led them from Chicago to Israel | website=The Daily Telegraph| date=3 January 2015 | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11323698/Black-Hebrews-mourn-the-man-who-led-them-from-Chicago-to-Israel.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11323698/Black-Hebrews-mourn-the-man-who-led-them-from-Chicago-to-Israel.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | access-date=11 September 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> a metal worker in Chicago. The members of this sect believe they are descended from the tribes of Judah driven from the Holy Land by the Romans during the First Jewish War (70 AD), and who reportedly emigrated to West Africa before being taken as slaves to the United States.<ref name="religion.info" /><ref>{{Cite news|title=Linda Jones, " Claiming a Promised Land: African-American settlers in Israel are guided by idea of independent Black Hebrew Society ", The Dallas Morning News,27/07/1997 .|last=Linda Jones|first=Linda Jones|date=27 July 1997|work=The Dallas Morning News}}</ref> With a population of over 5,000, most members live in their own community in [[Dimona, Israel]], with additional families in [[Arad, Israel|Arad]], [[Mitzpe Ramon]], and the [[Tiberias]] area. The group believes that the ancient Israelites are the ancestors of Black Americans and that the actual Jews are "impostors".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yadleachim.co.il/?CategoryID=111&ArticleID=156|title=הכושים העברים|website=yadleachim.co.il|access-date=18 April 2019}}</ref> Some scholarship does consider them to be of subsaharan African origin, rather than Levantine.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/science/african-american-dna.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/science/african-american-dna.html |archive-date=3 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tales of African-American History Found in DNA|last=Zimmer|first=Carl|date=27 May 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 April 2019|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Their ancestors were Black [[African Americans|Americans]] who, after being expelled from [[Liberia]], illegally immigrated to Israel in the late 1960s using tourist visas, requesting that Israel provide them legal citizenship status. Israel granted their requests.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Markowitz|first1=Fran|last2=Helman|first2=Sara|last3=Shir-Vertesh|first3=Dafna|date=June 2003|title=Soul Citizenship: The Black Hebrews and the State of Israel|journal=American Anthropologist|volume=105|issue=2|pages=302–312|doi=10.1525/aa.2003.105.2.302|issn=0002-7294}}</ref> The African Hebrew Israelites, like the [[Haredim]] and most [[Israeli Arabs]], are not required to serve in the military; however, some do.

'''Naturalized foreign workers'''

Some naturalized [[foreign worker]]s and their children born in Israel, predominantly from the [[Philippines]], [[Nepal]], [[Nigeria]], [[Senegal]], [[Romania]], China, [[Cyprus]], [[Thailand]], and South America (mainly Colombia).