(Ha'aretz) Ofer Aderet - Israel's population stands at 9,506,000, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced Sunday. That includes 7.02 million Jews (74%); 2 million Arabs (21%); and 478,000 others (5%), including non-Arab Christians, members of other religions, and those designated as without religion, most of whom are immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Today 78% of Israeli Jews were born here, while 45% of the world's Jews live in Israel.
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