Factchecking Israeli Demographics

Today’s cartoon references the percentage of Israelis who are Jewish. Some correspondents, claiming that Jews account for more than 70 percent of Israelis, take issue with my claim that the split is roughly 50-50. For the record, I relied on this quote from a professor at the University of Haifa for this cartoon:

Today, there are 5 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews. The latter figure is composed of 4.5 million Arabs and the remainder non-Jewish immigrants, mainly from the former Soviet Union, and foreign workers,” he told the Jerusalem Post.

I have read similar statements elsewhere; thus my cartoon.

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