Approximately 98 percent of Israel's Christians live in urban settlements, with 20 percent in Nazareth, 12 percent in Haifa and 10 percent in Jerusalem. Sixty percent of all Christians live in northern Israel.

In terms of their statistical profile, Christians resemble Jews more than Muslims. The number of births per woman stands at 2.3 for Christians, while among Jews the number is 2.7, and among Muslims, 4.5. The birth rate among Christians has been in continuous decline over the years, along with their proportion in the general population. Their proportion in the Arab population has declined precipitously from 20 percent in 1949 to 15 percent in 1972, to 9 percent at present. In 2003, the Christian population grew by 1.4 percent - the same rate as the Jewish population - while the Muslim population grew by 3.3 percent and the Druze, by 2.1 percent.

In 2003, 34 percent of Christians were less than 19 years of age (the same percentage as in the Jewish population). However, they were older than the Muslim population, in which 53 percent were in the 19-and-under age group. Some eight percent of Christians were 65 years or older, as opposed to 12 percent of Jews in this age group, and less than 3 percent among Muslims.

In 2003, approximately four percent of those emigrating from Israel were Christians, the same percentage as in 2002.

In 2002, the median age when Christian men married for the first time was 28.6 years of age, almost two years later than Jewish men and three years later than Muslim men. The median age for Christian women to marry for the first time was 23.4, younger by a year than their Jewish counterparts and three years older than Muslim women.

Those who think the Arab "Palestinian" Muslim population should replace the Christians and Jews - in what is quite obviously a Jihad against the non-Muslim population and Western civilization, to replace it with corrupt dictatorships, human rights violators, ruthless, repressive regimes, state supporters of terrorism and tyrannies - should think twice. What happened when the Arab Muslim "Palestinian" terrorists held the Church of the Nativity hostage, in an effort to force a battle, was a desecration of a Christian holy place and was a shameful, terrible tragedy. The "War of Islam" should never ever be confused with the alleged war on Islam.

In honest and moral circles, we call eliminating Jews and Christians in favor of Muslims "ethnic cleansing" or "genocide", or sometimes, "serial killing".

Anyone having any delusions or illusions?

"First the Saturday people. Then the Sunday people."

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Nice,but the Greek Orthodox Jerusalem Patriarhy have a different statistic about israely Christian population.It is about 200,000 people in israel and another 140,000-160,000 in the W.B and Gaza.For example in israely statistic for the year 2004,the Christian population of Al-Ramla city is only 2,900 people.But in the Patriarhy registrated 3,000 Orthodox Christians comunity members that lives in Al-Ramla city.Besides the Orthodox Christians there are in Al-Ramla also a Catolic and the Protestant Christian comunities.