A new official booklet reports that 3,493,200 persons — 2,959,400 of them Jews — were living in Israel at the end of 1975. The rest were Moslems and Christians. The figures in “Israel in Figures — 1976,” to be published soon by the government’s Center of Information, apply only to Israel proper. An estimated million non-Jews, most of them Arabs, lived in the administered territories.
About 27 percent of Israel’s Jewish population live in the three main cities — Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. During 1975, 20,028 immigrants arrived in Israel and an additional 9,200 arrived during the first six months of this year.
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