(Ha'aretz) Moti Bassok - Israel's population stands at 7.836 million, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday. Jews comprise 75.3% of the population, with 5.9 million, with Arabs comprising 20.5%, or 1.6 million. 4.2%, some 325,000, are non-Arab Christians and others. 2011 saw a 1.8% increase in Israel's population - 141,000 people - a rate comparable to the figures of the last decade. 166,800 new babies were born and 17,500 new immigrants arrived.
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