Christianity in Israel

5 days ago - According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since the reunification of Jerusalem after the Six-Day War (1967), the Christian as well as Jewish and Islamic holy sites were opened for multinational pilgrims by the Israeli authorities for the first time since 1948, when the Kingdom of Jordan took over the eastern half of the city. The Christian population in Israel has increased with the immigration of many mixed families from the former Soviet Union (1989 to late 1990s), and through the influx of approximately 7,000 Christian Maronites from Lebanon in 2000.

In 1948 Christians made up around 10% of the population. Today it’s around 1%. In Gaza more than half the Christian population has left in the last ten years, while the number of those killed in the ongoing conflict continues to rise.

2 days ago - Archbishop Hakim, with many hundreds of Christians, was allowed reentry on expressing a willingness to campaign against Communists in Israel and among his flock. After the war of 1948, the Christian population in the West Bank, under Jordanian control, dropped slightly, largely due to economic problems.

Historically, on the eve of World ... about 70,000 – 10% of the population. During the 20th century, absolute numbers increased, but the relative number of Christians declined. By 1947, on the eve of Israeli independence, the Christian population in Mandatory Palestine was 143,000, or 7% of the total population...

March 8, 2010 - According to the most recent estimate by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, at the beginning of 2000, there were approximately 130,000 Christians in Israel including East Jerusalem, 107,000 of whom were Palestinian Arab; they formed 2.1 per cent of the total population of the ...

March 31, 2024 - The impact on Nazareth's Christian population, which was once considered the majority, has been profound. While the Christian population of Nazareth was around 80% when Israel gained its independence in 1948, today, they constitute only 20% ...

5 days ago - The Maronite Christian community in Israel of around 7,000 resides mostly in the Galilee, with a presence in Haifa, Nazareth and Jerusalem. It is largely composed of families that lived in Upper Galilee in villages such as Jish long before the ...

3 weeks ago - This is because Islam displaced Christianity in almost all of the Middle East, and the rise of modern Zionism and the establishment of the State of Israel has seen millions of Jews migrate to Israel. Recently, the Christian population in Israel has increased with the immigration of foreign workers from a number of countries, and the immigration of accompanying non-Jewish spouses in mixed marriages.

According to figures published on 24 December 2021 by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of Christians in Israel has been increasing since the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. However, the percentage of Christians in Israel"s population has been falling compared to other ...

May 9, 2016 - There are 6,377,000 Jewish Israelis, ... the bureau said. Christians, non-Arabs, and other minority groups account for 374,000 people, or 4.4% of the population. By comparison, the nascent State of Israel had a population of just 806,000 in 1948....

January 26, 2025 - I am not going to waste time arguing ... stable and the didn’t go anywhere. In 1948 the Christian population was 11% of the total Palestinian population and in 2021 its less than 3% of all Palestinians in Israel, Gaza and West ...

February 10, 2025 - But since 1948, this population has dwindled from 10% to 1%. In the historic city of Bethlehem, where Christians once composed 85% of the population, the number of Christians has dwindled to about 10%.

In 1948, Israel had only 806,000 people, but experienced a 10-fold population increase by 2013, largely due to immigration of Jews from other countries.1 According to the most recent data, Israel’s ...

April 27, 2023 - It had a Jewish population of just ... of Christians. Today, it has a Jewish population of over 7 million, they comprise about 75 per cent of all Israeli citizens, and excluding the Palestinian populations of the West Bank and Gaza, Jews outnumber Muslims by about seven to two. Israel’s place in the Jewish world has changed dramatically too. In May 1948, the Jewish ...

August 23, 2022 - The intricate and complicated relations that prevailed between the Christian world and Israel during its 62 first years are the principal focus of this book. This Summary contains 3 parts. The first regards the Israeli policy towards churches and Christian communities between the years 1948-1967.

Finally, after World War II, and based on the Holocaust, world powers decided that Jewish people should have their own state, and thus Israel became its own independent state in 1948 CE. Today, Israel, and especially Jerusalem, is a multi-religious, multi-cultural area, with Jewish people, Muslim people, and Christian people sharing Jerusalem.

Anti-Semitism Biography History Holocaust Israel Israel Education Myths & Facts Politics Religion Travel US & Israel Vital Stats Women ... *Christian Arabs - 12,934, other Christians - 3,437.

April 15, 2025 - Yet Christians have emigrated in higher numbers than their Muslim neighbours, and have had lower birth rates, leading to a drop in the Christian share of Palestine's population over the decades - from an estimated 10 per cent in 1948 to around ...

“Israel’s population approaches 9.7 million as 2022 comes to an end,” Times of Israel, (December 29, 2023). “Israeli population rises to 9.795 million on Rosh Hashanah eve,” Times of Israel, (September 14, 2023). “Israel’s Independence Day 2025,” CBS, (April 28, 2025).