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According to the Jewish Virtual Library, the Jewish population of Tel Aviv had risen to 150,000 by 1937, compared to Jaffa's mainly Arab 69,000 residents, and by 1939 rose to 160,000, which was over a third of Palestine's total Jewish population. [33] The village statistics of 1938 listed Tel Aviv's population as 140,000, all Jews. [57]
The growth rate of the Arab population in Israel is 2.2%, while the growth rate of the Jewish population in Israel is 1.8%. The growth rate of the Arab population has slowed from 3.8% in 1999 to 2.2% in 2013, and for the Jewish population, the growth rate declined from 2.7% to its lowest rate of 1.4% in 2005.
18,500 Arabs live in the Tel Aviv District, which has a total population of 1,318,300. [10] 16,000 of them live in Jaffa, where they make up around a third of the population. In 2019 the population of Tel Aviv-Jaffa was 89.9% Jewish, and 4.5% Arab; among Arabs, 82.8% were Muslim, 16.4% were Christian, and 0.8% were Druze. [15]
In the 2018 Tel Aviv-Jaffa city council election, the Yafa list, which represents the Arab population of Jaffa, received 28% of the vote in Jaffa, making it the most voted party there; the second place was taken by the Hadash-affiliated [142] We are the City list, with 14% of the vote. [143]
The remaining 1% of the country's Arab population lives in cities that are almost entirely Jewish, such as Nazareth Illit with an Arab population of 22% [219] and Tel Aviv-Yafo, 4%. [ 124 ] [ 212 ] In February 2008, the government announced that the first new Arab city would be constructed in Israel.
1909 – Tel Aviv founded as neighborhood in Jaffa. [2] 1910s. 1917 – April: Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation. ... 2013 – Population: 414,600. 2020s
Population (estimated, ca. 2021) ... Jaffa and South יפו ודרום 10 km 2 (3.9 sq mi) ... Florentin, Tel Aviv. Florentin ...
Tel Aviv itself witnessed population decreases in the 1970s and 1980s, when outer regions of the Gush Dan with lower costs of living absorbed many of the people who had left Tel Aviv. Only in the 1990s, with the immigration of more than 1 million Jews from former Soviet Republics , 40,000 Ethiopian Jews , and many others to Israel, as well as a ...