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===Jews=== {{Main|Israeli Jews|Jewish ethnic divisions|Gerim}} {{Contains special characters|Hebrew}} {{Jews and Judaism sidebar}} [[File:Behatted girls with matzah (5607814995).jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Israeli girls in the 1960s, eating ''[[matzah|matzot]]''β[[unleavened bread]] traditionally eaten by Jews during [[Passover]]]] Among the [[Sabra (person)|Israeli-born Jewish]] population, most are descended from [[Ashkenazi Jews]], [[Mizrahi Jews]], [[Sephardic Jews]], [[Ethiopian Jews]], and other [[Jewish ethnic divisions]]. Due to the historically large Mizrahi population and decades of ethnic intermixing, over 50% of Israel's current Jewish population is of at least partial Mizrahi descent.<ref name="Promised Land 2014">''My Promised Land'', by [[Ari Shavit]], (London 2014)</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2021}} The CBS traces the paternal country of origin of Israeli Jews as of 2010 is as follows.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton_e.html?num_tab=st02_24x&CYear=2011 |title=Jews, by Country of Origin and Age |date=26 September 2011 |work=Statistical Abstract of Israel |publisher=[[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics]] |language=en, he |access-date=11 February 2012 |archive-date=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105202349/http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton_e.html?num_tab=st02_24x&CYear=2011%20 |url-status=live }}</ref> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right" |- ! style="text-align:center;"| Country of origin ! style="text-align:center;"| Born<br />abroad ! style="text-align:center;"| Israeli<br />born ! style="text-align:center;"| Total ! style="text-align:center;"| % |- | style="text-align:center;"| '''Total''' | '''1,610,900''' | '''4,124,400''' | '''5,753,300''' | '''100.0%''' |- | style="text-align:center;"| ''Asia'' | ''201,000'' | ''494,200'' | ''695,200'' | ''12.0%'' |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Turkey|Turkey]] | 25,700 | 52,500 | 78,100 | 1.4% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Iraq|Iraq]] | 62,600 | 173,300 | 235,800 | 4.1% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Yemenite Jews|Yemen]] | 28,400 | 111,100 | 139,500 | 2.4% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Persian Jews|Iran]]/[[History of the Jews in Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] | 49,300 | 92,300 | 141,600 | 2.5% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in India|India]]/[[History of the Jews in Pakistan|Pakistan]] | 17,600 | 29,000 | 46,600 | 0.8% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Syrian Jews|Syria]]/[[History of the Jews in Lebanon|Lebanon]] | 10,700 | 25,000 | 35,700 | 0.6% |- | style="text-align:left;"| Other | 6,700 | 11,300 | 18,000 | 0.3% |- | style="text-align:center;"| ''[[African Jews|Africa]]'' | ''315,800'' | ''572,100'' | ''887,900'' | ''15.4%'' |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Moroccan Jews|Morocco]] | 153,600 | 339,600 | 493,200 | 8.6% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Algeria|Algeria]]/[[History of the Jews in Tunisia|Tunisia]] | 43,200 | 91,700 | 134,900 | 2.3% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Libya|Libya]] | 15,800 | 53,500 | 69,400 | 1.2% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Egypt|Egypt]] | 18,500 | 39,000 | 57,500 | 1.0% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Beta Israel|Ethiopia]] | 81,600 | 38,600 | 110,100 | 1.9% |- | style="text-align:left;"| Other | 13,100 | 9,700 | 22,800 | 0.4% |- | style="text-align:center;"| ''[[Jews and Judaism in Europe|Europe]]/[[Americas]]/[[History of the Jews in Oceania|Oceania]]'' | ''1,094,100'' | ''829,700'' | ''1,923,800'' | ''33.4%'' |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]] | 651,400 | 241,000 | 892,400 | 15.5% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Poland|Poland]] | 51,300 | 151,000 | 202,300 | 3.5% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Romania|Romania]] | 88,600 | 125,900 | 214,400 | 3.7% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]/[[History of the Jews in Greece|Greece]] | 16,400 | 32,600 | 49,000 | 0.9% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Germany|Germany]]/[[History of the Jews in Austria|Austria]] | 24,500 | 50,600 | 75,200 | 1.3% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in the Czech Republic|Czech Republic]]/[[History of the Jews in Slovakia|Slovakia]]/[[History of the Jews in Hungary|Hungary]] | 20,000 | 45,000 | 64,900 | 1.1% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in France|France]] | 41,100 | 26,900 | 68,000 | 1.2% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[British Jews|United Kingdom]] | 21,000 | 19,900 | 40,800 | 0.7% |- | style="text-align:left;"| Europe, other | 27,000 | 29,900 | 56,900 | 1.0% |- | style="text-align:left;"| North America/Oceania | 90,500 | 63,900 | 154,400 | 2.7% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews of Argentina|Argentina]] | 35,500 | 26,100 | 61,600 | 1.1% |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[History of the Jews in Latin America|Latin America]], other | 26,900 | 17,000 | 43,900 | 0.8% |- | style="text-align:center;"| ''[[History of the Jews in the Land of Israel|Israel]]'' | style="text-align:center;"| β | ''2,246,300'' | ''2,246,300'' | ''39.0%'' |}
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