Nearly four in 10 Jerusalemites are Muslim, statistics released Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics show.
Some 371,000 Muslims live in Israel’s capital, making up 38% of residents, according to the figures published for the current Eid al-Adha holiday.
In all, 1.75 million Muslims live in Israel, representing 18% of the country’s population of nearly 10 million.
The country’s Muslim population rose by 2.2% last year, down slightly from 2.3% the previous year.
Israeli Muslim women now have an average of three children, a figure similar to that of Jewish women, after two decades of decline in the fertility rate in Muslim society. Yet the Muslim population in Israel remains very young, with nearly a third under the age of 14, while less than 5% are over the age of 65.
About 75% of Israelis are Jews and 5% are Christians.
