Editing Israelis (section)

==Population==
{{Main|Demographics of Israel}}
As of 2013, Israel's population is 8&nbsp;million, of which the Israeli civil government records 75.3% as [[Jews]], 20.7% as non-Jewish [[Arabs]], and 4.0% other.<ref name="CBS_month_pop">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/www/hodaot2013n/11_13_097e.pdf|title=65th Independence Day - More than 8 Million Residents in the State of Israel|website=www.cbs.gov.il|access-date=30 October 2013|archive-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004055837/http://www.cbs.gov.il/www/hodaot2013n/11_13_097e.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Israel's official census includes Israeli settlers in the [[Israeli-occupied territories|occupied territories]]<ref name=BBCPT>{{cite news|title=Palestinians shun Israeli settlement restriction plan|newspaper=BBC|date=25 November 2009|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8379868.stm|access-date=23 December 2010|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224210800/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8379868.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> (referred to as "[[Status of territories captured by Israel#Disputed|disputed]]" by Israel). 280,000 Israeli settlers live in [[Israeli settlement|settlements]] in the [[Israeli occupation of the West Bank|Israeli-occupied West Bank]],<ref name=BBCPT/> 190,000 in [[East Jerusalem]],<ref name=BBCPT/> and 20,000 in the [[Golan Heights]].<ref name=UNGolanHeights>{{cite book|author=United Nations|title=Yearbook of the United Nations 2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o2Va21wfwvIC&pg=PA524|date=1 October 2007|publisher=United Nations Publications|isbn=978-92-1-100967-5|page=524}}</ref>

Among Jews, 70.3% were [[Sabra (person)|born in Israel]] (''sabras''), mostly from the second or third generation of their family in the country, and the rest are [[Aliyah|Jewish immigrants]]. Of the Jewish immigrants, 20.5% were from Europe and the Americas, and 9.2% were from Asia, Africa, and [[Greater Middle East|Middle Eastern countries]].<ref name="CBS_month_pop"/> Nearly half of all Israeli Jews are descended from immigrants from the European Jewish diaspora. Approximately the same number are descended from immigrants from Arab countries, Iran, Turkey and Central Asia. Over 200,000 are of Ethiopian and Indian-Jewish descent.<ref name="cbs.gov.il">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton.html?num_tab=st02_23x&CYear=2005|title=שנתון סטטיסטי לישראל 2005 - מספר 56 פרק 2 - מספר לוח 23|website=www.cbs.gov.il|access-date=5 November 2008|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224210836/http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton.html?num_tab=st02_23x&CYear=2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The official [[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics]] estimate of the Israeli Jewish population does not include those Israeli citizens, mostly descended from [[Russian immigration to Israel in the 1990s|immigrants from the Soviet Union]], who are registered as "others", or their immediate family members. Defined as non-Jews and non-Arabs, they make up about 3.5% of Israelis (350,000),<ref>{{cite news|author=Yoram Ettinger|title=Defying demographic projections|url=http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3913|access-date=29 October 2013|newspaper=[[Israel Hayom]]|date=5 April 2013|archive-date=19 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719102032/http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3913|url-status=live}}</ref> and were eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://jppi.org.il/uploads/Jewish_Demographic_Policies.pdf | title=Jewish Demographic Policies | publisher=The Jewish People Policy Institute | year=2011 | access-date=29 October 2013 | archive-date=8 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408145557/http://jppi.org.il/uploads/Jewish_Demographic_Policies.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Israel_(people).aspx | title=Israel (people) | publisher=Encyclopedia.com | year=2007 | access-date=29 October 2013 | archive-date=2 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202082928/http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Israel_(people).aspx | url-status=live }}</ref>

Israel's official language is [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], which serves as the language of government and is spoken by the majority of the population. Arabic is spoken by the Arab minority and by some members of the [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] Jewish community. English is studied in school and is spoken by the majority of the population as a second language. Other languages spoken in Israel include Russian, [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]], Spanish, [[Ladino language|Ladino]], [[Amharic language|Amharic]], Armenian, Romanian, and French.<ref>[http://www.frommers.com/destinations/israel/253129 "Language."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309030401/http://www.frommers.com/destinations/israel/253129 |date=9 March 2016 }} ''Frommer's''.  8 March 2016.</ref>

In recent decades, between 650,000 and 1,300,000 Israelis have emigrated,<ref>Andrew I. Killgore.[http://www.washington-report.org/archives/March_2004/0403018.html "Facts on the Ground: A Jewish Exodus from Israel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041124222836/http://www.washington-report.org/archives/March_2004/0403018.html |date=24 November 2004 }} Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2004, pp.18–20</ref> a phenomenon known in Hebrew as ''[[yerida]]'' ("descent", in contrast to ''aliyah'', which means "ascent"). Emigrants have various reasons for leaving, but there is generally a combination of economic and political concerns.