Israel’s population stands at 6.9 million. According to Central Bureau of Statistics census figures published Tuesday, before Independence Day, 5.5 million Israelis are listed as Jews and the rest — 20 percent of the population — as Arabs. But the first category includes around 300,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union who are not Jewish under rabbinical law.
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