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====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>