Posted on 11/17/21
| News Source: MATZAV
According to figures released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics for the first time, intermarriage has become widespread in Israel, with most instances occurring among immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
The statistics indicate that 87% of mixed marriages involve a Jew marrying someone of “no religion,” the code word for the hundreds of thousands of non-Jews from the FSU allowed into Israel by the Law of Return.
This indicates that most mixed marriages are not between Jew and Arab, but between Jews and these non-Jewish immigrants.
According to less precise figures of the Interior Ministry, there are 111,000 mixed couples in Israel.