Israeli People Pictures

Israelis Israelim, are citizens or nationals of the modern state of Israel. Israel is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds including most numerously Jews, Muslims, Christians, Arabs, Druze, Circassians, and others. As a result, some Israelis dont take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with both their nationality and their ancestral origins. Nearly all Israelis or their ancestors immigrated to the region within the past two centuries.Due to the multi-ethnic composition, Israel is a multicultural nation, home to a wide variety of traditions and values. Large-scale immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from Europe and more recent Large-scale immigration North Africa, Western Asia, North America, Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia introduced many new cultural elements and has had broad impact. The resulting cultural mix may be described as a homogeneous melting pot. In addition to Israel, Israelis and people of Israeli descent can be found internationally such as in the United States, Canada, UK and throughout Europe. As many as 750,000 Israelis are estimated to be living abroad, primarily in the United States and Canada - about 12.5 percent of the general Jewish population of Israel. Photos by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye