At the beginning of Rosh Hashana the population of Israel was 3.4 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics said. That figure included some 2.9 million Jews, and more than 500,000 non-Jews, Nearly all the non-Jews are Arabs. According to the Bureau’s spokesman, the Israeli population rose by 2.8 percent during the outgoing Hebrew year. The Jewish population rose by 2.6 percent, compared to a 4 percent increase among the non-Jews.
There were 93,000 more Israelis on Aug. 31. 1974, than on Sept. 1,1973. Some 75,000 of them were Jews, and 18,000 non-Jews. Some 61 percent of the additional Jews (45,500) were the result of natural growth, and 40 percent were olim. All the additional non-Jews were due to natural growth.
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