Israel’s population at the end of the Jewish year 5745 was 4.255 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced. Of the total, 82.5 percent were Jews, 13.5 percent Moslems, 2.3 percent Christians, and 1.7 percent Druze and others. During the past year, the total population increased by about 1.8 percent, with the Jewish population growing by 1.6 percent and the Moslems by about 3.2 percent.
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