Preface
There are several figures for the actual number of Israeli settlers in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) statistics of 2017, the yearly growth rate of the settlers’ population (excluding occupied East Jerusalem) is 1.75 times more than that of Israel’s population, 3.5 percent in Israeli settlements in the West Bank vs. 2% in Israel.
According to the latest edition (January 2021) of the “West Bank Jewish Population Stats Report commissioned annually by the former Knesset member, “Yaakov Ketzaleh (Katz), the population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank reached 475,48 by 2021; a 2.62% growth in 2020, and a 17% growth in the past five years. The figures exclude the 350,000 Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem, which makes the total population of settlers 825,481.
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Prepared by:
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem
