Seventy-one years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, Israel's population stands at roughly 8,502,900, including some 6,374,400 Jews, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a new report published on Sunday. The figures do not include foreign workers, who numbered just over 190,000 in 2014. The figures also show that Israel's general population growth rate is 13,500 per month, which includes a Jewish population growth rate of about 10,000 per month. Jews make up some 74.8% of the population, according to the figures. According to the CBS, there are about 400,000 people in Israel who do not fall under any religious group under the criteria set by the bureau. They are mostly from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia and arrived in Israel during the large immigration waves from those areas. They were granted citizenship under the Law of Return, which allows Jews and people with Jewish ancestry to immigrate to Israel provided they meet certain conditions. Some 1.76 million Arabs live in Israel, representing more than 20% of the population.
