Editing Israelis (section)

===Arabic-speaking minorities===
{{Main|Arab citizens of Israel}}

====Arab Palestinians====
A large part of [[Mandatory Palestine|Mandate]]-period [[Palestinian people|Arab Palestinians]] remained within Israel's borders following the [[1948 Palestinian exodus|1948 exodus]] and are the largest group of Arabic-speaking and culturally Arab citizens of Israel. The vast majority of the Arab citizens of Israel are [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] Muslim, while 9% of them are [[Christianity in Israel|Christian]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/statistical/arab_pop03e.pdf | title=The Arab Population of Israel 2003 | access-date=7 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201024709/http://www.cbs.gov.il/statistical/arab_pop03e.pdf | archive-date=1 December 2007 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and 7.1% of them are [[Druze]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2019/122/11_19_122b.pdf|title=The Druze population in Israel|date=24 April 2020|publisher=Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel)|access-date=17 March 2022|archive-date=16 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216205902/https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2019/122/11_19_122b.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

As of 2013, the Arab population of Israel amounts to 1,658,000, about 20.7% of the population.<ref name="CBS_month_pop"/> This figure include 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=15 March 2010 |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>

According to the Israeli [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel)|Central Bureau of Statistics]] census in 2010, the Arab population in Israel lives in [[Arab localities in Israel|134 Arabic towns and villages]]; around 44% of them live in towns, while 48% of them in villages with the status of [[Local council (Israel)|Local council]], and around 4% live in small villages that are part of [[Regional council (Israel)|Regional council]].<ref name="Research"/> The Arab population in Israel is located in five main areas: [[Galilee]] (54.6% of total Israeli Arabs), [[Triangle (Israel)|Triangle]] (23.5% of total Israeli Arabs), [[Golan Heights]], [[East Jerusalem]], and Northern [[Negev]] (13.5% of total Israeli Arabs).<ref name="Research">{{cite web|url=http://raphael.geography.ad.bgu.ac.il/ojs/index.php/GRF/article/view/413|title=Housing Transformation within Urbanized Communities: The Arab Palestinians in Israel|date=27 February 2016|publisher=[[Geography Research Forum]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003124409/http://raphael.geography.ad.bgu.ac.il/ojs/index.php/GRF/article/view/413|archive-date=3 October 2019}}</ref> Around 8.4% of Israeli Arabs live in officially mixed Jewish-Arab cities (excluding Arab residents in East Jerusalem), in [[Haifa]], [[Lod]], [[Ramle]], [[Jaffa]]-[[Tel Aviv]], [[Acre, Israel|Acre]], [[Nof HaGalil]], and [[Ma'alot Tarshiha]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iataskforce.org/sites/default/files/resource/resource-262.pdf|title=opic: Mixed Cities in Israel|date=20 June 2014|publisher=Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues|access-date=26 March 2022|archive-date=12 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912142625/http://iataskforce.org/sites/default/files/resource/resource-262.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Negev Bedouin====
{{Main|Negev Bedouin}}
{{See also|Galilee Bedouin}}
The Arab citizens of Israel also include the [[Bedouin]]. Israeli Bedouin include those who live in the north of the country, for the most part in villages and towns, and the Bedouin in the [[Negev]], who are semi-nomadic or live in towns or [[Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel|unrecognized Bedouin villages]]. In 1999, 110,000 Bedouin lived in the Negev, 50,000 in the Galilee and 10,000 in the central region of Israel.<ref name="Bedouin Demographics">[http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/1990_1999/1999/7/the%20bedouin%20in%20israel The Bedouin in Israel: Demography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026125647/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/1990_1999/1999/7/the%20bedouin%20in%20israel |date=26 October 2007 }} [[Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] 1 July 1999</ref> As of 2013, the [[Negev Bedouin]] number 200,000–210,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/11/arrests-at-protest-over-israel-bedouin-plan-20131130173443568410.html |title=Arrests at protest over Israel's Bedouin plan |work=[[Al Jazeera English]] |date=1 December 2013 |access-date=9 February 2014 |archive-date=24 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224210803/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/11/arrests-at-protest-over-israel-bedouin-plan-20131130173443568410.html?xif= |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="newint.org">{{Cite web|url = http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2013/07/23/bedouins-face-mass-eviction/|title = Israel's Bedouin population faces mass eviction| work=New Internationalist |date = 23 July 2013|access-date = 9 February 2014|archive-date = 5 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011236/http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2013/07/23/bedouins-face-mass-eviction/|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Issues/Pages/The-Bedouin-in-the-Negev-and-the-Begin-Plan-4-Nov-2013.aspx |title=Behind the Headlines: The Bedouin in the Negev and the Begin Plan |work=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] |date=4 November 2013 |access-date=9 February 2014 |archive-date=24 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224210759/http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Issues/Pages/The-Bedouin-in-the-Negev-and-the-Begin-Plan-4-Nov-2013.aspx%20 |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Druze====
{{Main|Israeli Druze}}
There is also a significant population of Israeli [[Druze]], estimated at 117,500 at the end of 2006.<ref>[http://www1.cbs.gov.il/shnaton58/download/st02_02.xls Table 2.2] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128014905/http://www1.cbs.gov.il/shnaton58/download/st02_02.xls |date=28 January 2012 }}, Statistical Abstract of Israel 2007, No. 58.</ref> All Druze in [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate Palestine]] became Israeli citizens upon the foundation of the State of Israel.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

====Maronites====
{{Main|Maronites in Israel}}
There are about 7,000 [[Maronites in Israel|Maronite Christian]] Israelis, living mostly in the [[Galilee]] but also in [[Haifa]], [[Nazareth]], and [[Jerusalem]]. They are mostly pro-Israeli [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] former militia members and their families who fled Lebanon after the [[Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon#Withdrawal from the security belt|2000 withdrawal of IDF from South Lebanon]]. Some, however, are from local Galilean communities such as [[Jish]].{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

====Copts====
There are about 1,000 [[Copts|Coptic]] Israeli citizens.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

====Arameans====
{{Main|Arameans in Israel}}
In September 2014, Israel recognized the "Aramean" ethnic identity of hundreds of the Christian citizens of Israel. This recognition comes after about seven years of activity by the Aramean Christian Foundation in Israel – Aram, led by IDF Major [[Shadi Khalloul Risho]] and the Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum, headed by [[Father Gabriel Naddaf]] of the Greek-Orthodox Church and Major Ihab Shlayan. The Aramean ethnic identity encompasses all the Christian Eastern Syriac churches in Israel, including the [[Maronite Church]], [[Greek Orthodox]] Church, [[Greek Catholic]] Church, [[Syriac Catholic Church|Syriac Catholic]] Church and [[Syriac Orthodox]] Church. Many Israelis who advocated for and identify as Aramean today are Maronites, with Assyrians identifying as well.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24936/Default.aspx | title=Israel Today - Stay Informed, Pray Informed | access-date=21 September 2014 | archive-date=7 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307132630/https://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24936/Default.aspx/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.616299| title=Israel Recognizes Aramean Minority in Israel as Separate Nationality| newspaper=Haaretz| first=Jonathan| last=Lis| date=17 September 2014| access-date=21 September 2014| archive-date=17 September 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917165653/http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.616299| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=20169 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214122744/http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=20169 |date=14 December 2018 }}</ref>

====Assyrians====
{{Main|Assyrians in Israel}}
There are around 1,000 [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] living in Israel, mostly in [[Jerusalem]] and [[Nazareth]]. Assyrians are an [[Aramaic]]-speaking, [[Eastern Christianity|Eastern Rite]] Christian minority who are descended from the ancient [[Mesopotamians]]. The old [[Syriac Orthodox]] monastery of Saint Mark lies in Jerusalem. Other than followers of the Syriac Orthodox Church, there are also followers of the [[Assyrian Church of the East]] and the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]] living in Israel.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}