Changes to Israel’s census bureau means that citizens will only be classified as Jews or Arabs, with all non-Jews who are not Arab being counted under a new “extended Jewish population” rubric.
The change will see the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) eliminate the separate category of “others” in official publications on demographics, after a request from a Yesh Atid minister who worried the word could put off those included in it.
The “extended Jewish” category will include any citizen who is not
Arab and not Jewish according to Jewish religious law. The CBS said it
would also classify groups that are neither culturally Jewish nor Arab
in the “extended” category.
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