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THREAD #Christmas 2019 – Christians in #Israel

• On the eve of Christmas 2019, approximately 177,000 Christians live in Israel;

• they comprise about 2% of the State of Israel's population;

• In 2018, the Christian population grew by 1.5%
• 77.5% of the Christians in #Israel are Arab Christians. They constitute 7.2% of the total Arab population.

• The localities with the largest Arab Christian populations are #Nazareth (21,900), #Haifa (16,100), #Jerusalem (12,700), and Shefar'am (10,300), as of the end of 2018
• Women constituted 74.4% of Christian students studying toward a second degree, compared to women constituting 63.1% of all students studying toward a second degree.

• For third degrees, the percentages were 62.8% and 53.2%, respectively.
• The largest percentage of pupils entitled to a matriculation certificate who met university entrance requirements was among Christian Arabs (70.9%).

• This was similar to the percentage of pupils in Hebrew education (70.6%), higher than among Druze (63.7%) & Moslems (45.2%).
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