Most Arab Israelis do not consider Israeli identity primary
A majority defined their primary identity as "Arab," with only 3% defining themselves as "Palestinian."
JNS - Jewish News Syndicate 23.05.2025
Seventy percent of Israel’s Arabs, or some 1.5 million citizens, do not see “Israeli” as being their primary or even secondary identity, according to a survey published by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.
The poll, which asked respondents to self-identify, said that only 3% of Arabs define themselves as Israeli citizens first, with 27% saying that their citizenship of the Jewish state defined their secondary identity.
The majority of respondents (56%) said they primarily define their identity as Arab, followed by 25% who defined themselves as Muslim first.
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