The Jewish population increased in northern Israel and in the Jerusalem district last year. The Aviv district remains the most heavily populated, with some 1,017,000 people, nearly a quarter of the country’s population, living there, according to preliminary demographic data for 1985, released here Friday.
Israel’s population at the end of last year was estimated at 4.26 million, of whom approximately 3.51 million are Jews and nearly 750,000 non-Jews. In the northern district, the population increased by 2.1 percent in 1985 and stands at 706,000. In the Jerusalem district, the rate of increase was 2 percent and the population is about 505,000. In the Tel Aviv district the population increased by only 0.3 percent.
The Jewish population grew by 1.7 percent in both the Jerusalem district and the northern district, and by 1.2 percent in the country as a whole. There are 371,000 Jewish residents in the Jerusalem district and 352,000 in the northern district. But the number of non-Jews in the northern district increased by 2.5 percent, for a total of 355,000.
The number of non-Jews in the southern district increased 4.4 percent and now totals 56,000.
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