Buoyed by aliya, Israeli population up to 9.5 million ahead of 74th Independence Day – Country sees biggest immigration wave in 20 years, with 38,000 arrivals; latest stats find 73.9% of Israelis are Jews, 21.1% are Arabs and 5% members of other religious groups | Timesofisrael

Just ahead of the celebration of Israel’s 74th anniversary, the population of the Jewish state stands at 9,506,000, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced Sunday.
That includes nearly 7.02 million Jews, accounting for 73.9 percent of the population; 2 million Arabs, just over one-fifth of the population; and 478,000 members of other groups, amounting to 5% of the population.