In 2023, the population of Muslims in Israel was estimated at 1.77 million. This marked an increase of 2 percent compared to the previous year. The Muslim community in the country formed the largest religious minority in the country.

At the end of 2023, the population of Israel reached almost 9.7 million permanent residents. Jewish residents formed the largest religious group, with just over 7.15 million people. The Muslim population in the country, formed the largest religious minority at over 1.7 million individuals. Conversely, the smallest religious group was that of the Druze with about 151,000 people.

In 2023, Jerusalem was the city with the largest population of Muslim residents in Israel, reaching ******* people. This represented about ** percent of the city's total population. The town with the second-highest number of Muslims was Rahat, with ****** members of the religion. Rahat is a predominantly Bedouin city in southern Israel. Umm al-Fahm and Nazareth, both located in northern Israel, make up a sizeable portion of the Muslim community in Israel.

Israel: Sunni Muslims as percent of the total population: The latest value from is percent, unavailable from percent in . In comparison, the world average is 0.0 percent, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Israel from to is percent. The minimum value, percent, was reached in while the maximum of percent was recorded in .

According to a 2024 survey, some ** percent of Jews in Israel were secular, while **** identified as ultra-orthodox. On the other hand, less than ** percent of Muslims in Israel were non-religious, and some ** percent identified as religious.

As of 2023, the youngest population group by religion in Israel were Muslims, with a median age of 24 years. On the other hand, the religious group was that of Christians of Arab ethnicity, at 35 years. The median age among Jews, the most populous group in the country, was ****.

56 percent of the Muslim population in Israel aged 15 and over held the marital status of married in 2022. On the other hand, 38 percent of the community members were registered as single. Divorced and widowed people each accounted for three percent of the population.

Jews were the dominant religious group in the Israel-Palestine region at the beginning of the first millennia CE, and are the dominant religious group there today, however, there was a period of almost 2,000 years where most of the world's Jews were displaced from their spiritual homeland. Antiquity to the 20th century Jewish hegemony in the region began changing after a series of revolts against Roman rule led to mass expulsions and emigration. Roman control saw severe persecution of Jewish and Christian populations, but this changed when the Byzantine Empire adopted Christianity as its official religion in the 4th century. Christianity then dominated until the 7th century, when the Rashidun Caliphate (the first to succeed Muhammad) took control of the Levant. Control of region split between Christians and Muslims intermittently between the 11th and 13th centuries during the Crusades, although the population remained overwhelmingly Muslim. Zionism until today Through the Paris Peace Conference, the British took control of Palestine in 1920. The Jewish population began growing through the Zionist Movement after the 1880s, which sought to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Rising anti-Semitism in Europe accelerated this in the interwar period, and in the aftermath of the Holocaust, many European Jews chose to leave the continent. The United Nations tried facilitating the foundation of separate Jewish and Arab states, yet neither side was willing to concede territory, leading to a civil war and a joint invasion from seven Arab states. Yet the Jews maintained control of their territory and took large parts of the proposed Arab territory, forming the Jewish-majority state of Israel in 1948, and acheiving a ceasefire the following year. Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced as a result of this conflict, while most Jews from the Arab eventually fled to Israel. Since this time, Israel has become one of the richest and advanced countries in the world, however, Palestine has been under Israeli military occupation since the 1960s and there are large disparities in living standards between the two regions.

In 2021, the divorce rate among members of the Muslim population in Israel between the ages of ** and ** was the highest among the age groups, at **** percent, followed closely by the 50-54 age group in the community, at **** percent. Overall, more than half of all divorcees among the Muslim population in Israel were 35 years of age or older.

The purpose of this study is to examine the attitudes of Jews and Arabs in Israel concerning the role of the police in counterterrorism. The study focuses on the public perception of the effect of the police’s involvement in counterterrorism on their ability to perform traditional police roles; how the police’s role in fighting terrorism affects the relationship between police and the community; and the willingness of Jews and Arabs in Israel to assist the police by reporting crimes and terrorism threats. These questions are asked against the backdrop of majority-minority relations, in which the ways both the majority Jewish population and the minority Arab population in Israel responds are examined. Data included in this study was gathered from a community survey. The computer software “Dvash” and the database “Bezek,” which includes all residents of Israel who have "land" phone lines were used to conduct the survey. The low response rate (58%) of the community survey limits the extent to which the results can be applied to the entire Israeli population. Variables affecting the data gathered include the respondent’s past experiences with the po lice, their religion or ethnicity, their trust in the capabilities of the police, and their views on the consequences of policing terrorism.

Israël: Sunni Muslims as percent of the total population: Pour cet indicateur, The Cline Center for Democracy fournit des données pour la Israël de à . La valeur moyenne pour Israël pendant cette période était de pour cent avec un minimum de pour cent en et un maximum de pour cent en .

In 2023, the Jewish population had the highest total fertility rate in Israel, at an average of * births per woman. Muslim women, on the other hand, had a rate of **** children. The Druze and Christian religious communities had a total fertility rate of **** and ****, respectively.

In 2023, more than ** percent of Muslim families in Israel led a traditional lifestyle, in terms of religious practice. Religious or very-religious families, which made up over ** percent of the Muslim population. On the other hand, only *** percent of Muslim families were secular.

Shared suffering can bond groups together and motivate fighting and even dying for the group leading to vicious cycles of violence while the suffering of the outgroup is routinely overlooked. But could the power of shared suffering also be harnessed to reduce tensions? Here we present evidence that a speech appealing to suffering shared by both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict delivered by a professional politician in December 2023 can foster identity fusion, trust and openness to friendship towards the outgroup – Palestinians or Israelis – in a sample of Muslim and Jewish Americans (n = 159). Effects partially persisted three days after exposure to the speech. In a follow-up study we found that the same speech also increased positive attitudes towards Israelis and Palestinians in a sample of the general US population (n = 361).

According to a survey, most Muslims in Israel ate halal consistently in 2024, in accordance with the Sharia principles. On the other hand, only 2.5 percent of Muslims reported not eating halal at all.

In 2023, there were 179,400 Christians living in Israel. Christians of Arabic ethnic background accounted for the majority, with 141,800 individuals. Non-Arab Christians comprised 37,600 people in the country.

As of 2024, the population of Israel reached about *** million permanent residents in total. About *** million were registered as Jews or other non-Arab populations. Furthermore, some *** million Arabs lived in the country.

In 2023, Muslim nuclear families in Israel predominantly consisted of couples with children under the age of 17, making up 59 percent of households. Couples with children over the age of 18 accounted for 16 percent, while couples without children represented 12 percent of the Muslim family units.

The rate of criminal convictions among Muslim men in Israel in 2021 was 1,082 per 100,000 people. This was significantly higher than non-Muslim men, with the rate of 388 per 100,000. Muslim women had a total conviction rate of 40 per 100,000, the same as non-Muslim women.

The number of households registered as Jewish in Israel reached roughly **** million in 2023. In the same year, ******* households were registered as Arab, while ****** households were registered as belonging to population groups of other religions.