Muslims in Israel JNS - Jewish News Syndicate JUN 13, 2024
Muslims in Israel: Statistics
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Statistics bureau releases latest data on eve of Hajj.
To mark Eid al-Adha (“Feast of the Sacrifice”), a Muslim holiday that marks the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released data about the Muslim population of Israel.
At the end of 2023, the Muslim population of Israel was estimated at 1.782 million, (18.1% of all residents)—an increase of 35,000 compared with the end of 2022.
The annual growth rate of the Muslim population in 2023 was 2.0% (2.2% in 2022).
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