On the eve of Israel’s 74th Independence Day, the National Bureau of Statistics said that more than a third of Israelis were under the age of 20, Ynet reports.
Israel’s population stands on 9,506,000 and is expected to hit the 10 million mark within three years.
According to the Bureau, 1.8 million, some 19.3% of Israelis, are children under the age of 9, 1.5 million are between 10 and 16 years of age, some 16.6%. The data released by the Bureau shows 7,021,000 are Jewish, comprising 73.9% of the population. 2,007,000 are Muslim and Christian Arabs and 478,000 are described as being followers of other faiths or having no religious affiliation.
{Matzav.com Israel}
