Religion in Israel (English Wikipedia)

Cohen, Asher; Susser, Bernard (2000). Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801863455.
Guinn, David E. (2 October 2006). Protecting Jerusalem's Holy Sites: A Strategy for Negotiating a Sacred Peace (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-521-86662-0.
O'Reilly, Sean; James O'Reilly (30 November 2000). PilgrFile: Adventures of the Spirit (1st ed.). Travelers' Tales. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-885211-56-9. The general consensus is that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre marks the hill called Golgotha, and that the site of the Crucifixion and the last five Stations of the Cross are located under its large black domes.
Third-holiest city in Islam:
- Esposito, John L. (2 November 2002). What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam. Oxford University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-19-515713-0. The Night Journey made Jerusalem the third holiest city in Islam

archive.today

"Egged launches 11 'mehadrin' bus lines". Jerusalem Post. 1 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2011.

avi-chai.org

"A Portrait of Israeli Jewry: Beliefs, Observances, and Values among Israeli Jews 2000" (PDF). The Israel Democracy Institute and The AVI CHAI Foundation. 2002. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2008.

bahai-library.com

Adam Berry (22 September 2004). "The Baháʼí Faith and its relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: A brief history". International Social Science Review. ISSN 0278-2308. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
* Nechemia Meyers (1995). "Peace to all nations - Baha'is Establish Israel's Second Holy Mountain". The World & I. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
Donald H. Harrison (3 April 1998). "The Fourth Faith". Jewish Sightseeing. Haifa, Israel. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
Universal House of Justice (13 January 2015). "Humanitarian Responses to Global Conflicts". Letters from the Universal House of Justice. Bahai-Library.com. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
"Teaching the Faith in Israel". Baháʼí Library Online. 23 June 1995. Retrieved 6 August 2007.

bahai.org

Universal House of Justice (30 April 1987). "Regarding the development of the properties of the Bahá'í World Centre". Bahá'í Reference Library, Selected Messages of the Universal House of Justice. Bahá'í International Community. Retrieved 25 December 2016.

baj.co.il

example: The Christian Church, Jaffa Tel-Aviv website article in Hebrew Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine יהודים משיחיים - יהודים או נוצרים?

beliefnet.com

Elaine Ruth Fletcher (26 June 2000). "Orthodox Suspected in Jerusalem Conservative Synagogue, Church Attacks". beliefnet.com. Retrieved 28 January 2007.

bibleplaces.com

"Southern Temple Mount".

bicom.org.uk

"Freedom of Religion". BICOM. Archived from the original on 21 December 2005. Retrieved 14 October 2005.

biu.ac.il

"The Early Arab Period - 638-1099". Jerusalem: Life Throughout the Ages in a Holy City. Bar-Ilan University Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies. March 1997. Retrieved 24 April 2007.

books.google.com

Beit-Hallahmi 2011, p. 385. Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (2011). "Jewish Religious Life in State of Israel". In Berlin, Adele (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2nd ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 385–387. ISBN 978-0-19-975927-9.
Karesh & Hurvitz 2005, p. 237. Karesh, Sara E.; Hurvitz, Mitchell M. (2005). "Israel". Encyclopedia of Judaism. Encyclopedia of World Religions. J. Gordon Melton, Series Editor. New York: Facts On File. p. 235–237. ISBN 0-8160-5457-6.
Beit-Hallahmi 2011, p. 386. Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (2011). "Jewish Religious Life in State of Israel". In Berlin, Adele (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2nd ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 385–387. ISBN 978-0-19-975927-9.
Kedem, Peri (2017) [1995]. "Demensions of Jewish Religiosity". In Deshen, Shlomo; Liebman, Charles S.; Shokeid, Moshe (eds.). Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of Religion in Israel. Studies of Israeli Society, 7 (Reprint ed.). London; New York: Routledge. pp. 33–62. ISBN 978-1-56000-178-2.
Ezrachi, Elan (2004). "The Quest for Spirituality among Secular Israelis". In Rebhum, Uzi; Waxman, Chaim I. (eds.). Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns. Brandeis University Press. pp. 315–330.
Tabory, Ephraim (2004) [1990]. "Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel". In Goldscheider, Calvin; Neusner, Jacob (eds.). Social Foundations of Judaism (Reprint ed.). Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock Publ. pp. 240–258. ISBN 1-59244-943-3.
Tabory, Ephraim (2004). "The Israel Reform and Conservative Movements and the Marker for the Liberal Judaism". In Rebhum, Uzi; Waxman, Chaim I. (eds.). Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns. Brandeis University Press. pp. 285–314.
Deshen, Shlomo; Liebman, Charles S.; Shokeid, Moshe, eds. (2017) [1995]. "Americans in the Israeli Reform and Conservative Denominations". Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of Religion in Israel. Studies of Israeli Society, 7 (Reprint ed.). London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-56000-178-2.
Beit-Hallahmi 2011, p. 387. Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (2011). "Jewish Religious Life in State of Israel". In Berlin, Adele (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2nd ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 385–387. ISBN 978-0-19-975927-9.
Berlin, Adele, ed. (2011). The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2nd ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-19-975927-9.
The Status Quo Letter (DOC Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine) (in Hebrew) English translation in Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present, editors Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz. ISBN 978-0-87451-962-4
Melton, J. Gordon, ed. (2005). "Messianic Judaism". Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Encyclopedia of World Religions. New York: Facts On File. p. 373. ISBN 0-8160-5456-8. Messianic Judaism is a Protestant movement that emerged in the last half of the 20th century among believers who were ethnically Jewish but had adopted an Evangelical Christian faith.…By the 1960s, a new effort to create a culturally Jewish Protestant Christianity emerged among individuals who began to call themselves Messianic Jews.
Ori Stendel (1996). The Arabs in Israel. Sussex Academic Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1898723240. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
Zev Vilnay; Karṭa (Firm) (1969). The new Israel atlas: Bible to present day. Israel Universities Press. p. 38.

bwc.org

bahai.bwc.org

"Other visits to the Holy Land". Bahá'í World Centre. Archived from the original on 4 January 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2010.

cbs.gov.il

Dror-Cohen, Shlomit (12 September 2010). "Media Releases" לקט נתונים מתוך הסקר החברתי :2009 שמירה על המסורת היהודית ושינויים במידת הדתיות לאורך החיים בקרב האוכלוסייה היהודית בישראל [Social Survey 2009: Observance of Jewish Tradition and Changes in Religiosity of the Jewish Population in Israel]. Central Bureau of Statistics (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 16 November 2018.
Israel's Independence Day 2019 (PDF) (Report). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
"The Druze population in Israel - a collection of data on the occasion of the Prophet Shuaib holiday" (PDF). CBS - Israel. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 17 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
"Statistical Abstract of Israel 2017". Central Bureau of Statistics.
"Statistical Abstract of Israel 2014 - No. 65 Subject 2 - Table No. 2".
Population - Statistical Abstract of Israel 2021 - No.72 CBS

www1.cbs.gov.il

"Table 2.1 — Population, by Religion and Population. As of may 2011 estimate the population was 76.0 Jewish. Group". Statistical Abstract of Israel 2006 (No. 57). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 September 2012.
"Population, by Population Group" (PDF). Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

christianitytoday.com

Zylstra, Sarah. "Israeli Christians Think and Do Almost the Opposite of American Evangelicals". Christianity Today. Retrieved 24 February 2018.

degruyter.com

Mor, Reiterer & Winkler 2010. Mor, Menachem; Reiterer, Friedrich V.; Winkler, Waltraud, eds. (2010). Samaritans: Past and Present: Current Studies. Studia Samaritana, 5 & Studia Judaica, 53. Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-019497-5.

googlepages.com

t.aghourian.googlepages.com

"Preserving Identity in the Holy City".^{[dead link]}

haaretz.com

"Israel Has Almost as Many Religious Restrictions as Iran, Pew Report Finds". Haaretz, JTA and Ben Sales. July 17, 2019
Who are the most religious people in the world? Haaretz, 14 April 2015
Hasson, Nir (27 January 2012). "Survey: Record Number of Israeli Jews Believe in God". Haaretz.
Yair Ettinger (11 June 2013). "Poll: 7.1 Percent of Israeli Jews Define Themselves as Reform or Conservative". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
Moti Bassok (25 December 2007). "Central Bureau of Statistics: 2.1% of state's population is Christian". HAARETZ.com. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
Shtull-Trauring, Asaf (17 May 2010). "Poll Shows Ranks of Secular Jewish Minority in Israel Continued to Drop in 2009". Haaretz.
Maltz, Judy (8 December 2016). "Israel to Publish Criteria for Recognizing Rabbis Who Perform Conversions Abroad". Haaretz.
Ilany, Ofri (22 March 2009). "Paganism Returns to the Holy Land". Haaretz.
"Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda", HaAretz (Associated Press), 20 May 2008
Barkat, Amiram (27 June 2009). "Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them". Haaretz.

haifatrail.com

"Kababir and Central Carmel – Multiculturalism on the Carmel". Retrieved 17 February 2015.

huffingtonpost.com

Fleet, Josh (4 November 2010). "Israel To Allow Civil Marriages". Huffington Post.

israelandyou.com

"Kababir". Israel and You. Archived from the original on 30 January 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.

jcpa.org

Daniel J. Elazar. "How Religious are Israeli Jews?". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved 28 January 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
"The Destruction of the Temple Mount Antiquities, by Mark Ami-El". www.jcpa.org.

jerusaleminstitute.org.il

"Population in Israel and in Jerusalem, by Religion, 1988 - 2016" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2019.

jewishvirtuallibrary.org

"Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community in Israel: Facts and Figures (2022)". Jewish Virtual Library. A Project of AICE. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
"Freedom of Religion in Israel". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

jpost.com

Jeremy Sharon; Sam Sokol (25 February 2016). "Chief Rabbinate in fierce attack on Reform, Conservative movements". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
"J'lem posters call for 3rd Temple". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com.
Izenberg, Dan; Mandel, Jonah (6 January 2011). "Court scraps 'mehadrin' buses". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
"Israeli couple become first to be wed in civil union". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com.

fr.jpost.com

"Egged launches 11 'mehadrin' bus lines". Jerusalem Post. 1 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2011.

jta.org

Survey: Majority of Israeli Jews support equality for Reform movement. JTA, 27 May 2016.

justice.gov

"ISRAEL 2017 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT". U.S. Department of Justice. Retrieved 27 April 2021.

kfar-olami.org.il

w3.kfar-olami.org.il

The Status Quo Letter (DOC Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine) (in Hebrew) English translation in Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present, editors Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz. ISBN 978-0-87451-962-4

knesset.gov.il

"Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty".

lmf.org.uk

"Messianic perspectives for Today". leeds Messianic fellowship. Retrieved 28 January 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

mfa.gov.il

Sheetrit, Shimon (20 August 2001). "Freedom of Religion in Israel". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
"People: Religious Freedom". mfa.gov.il. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
"Christian tourism to Israel". mfa.gov.il. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
Guberman, Shlomo (2000). The Development of the Law in Israel: The First 50 Years, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed January 2007

nrg.co.il

"חדשות - בארץ nrg - ...המגזר הערבי נוצרי הכי מצליח במערכת".

nytimes.com

Pace, Eric (5 October 1993). "Sheik Amin Tarif, Arab Druse Leader In Israel, Dies at 95". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2010.

pewforum.org

"Israel's Religiously Divided Society". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
"Global Restrictions on Religion (Full report)" (PDF). The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. December 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

pewresearch.org

Lipka, Michael (15 March 2016). "Unlike U.S., few Jews in Israel identify as Reform or Conservative". Pew Research Center.

state.gov

2009-2017.state.gov

""U.S. Department of State: 2012 Report on International Religious Freedom: Israel and The Occupied Territories (May 20, 2013)"".

theatlantic.com

Sarah Posner (29 November 2012). "Kosher Jesus: Messianic Jews in the Holy Land". The Atlantic. Retrieved 28 June 2023.

theguardian.com

Macintyre, Donald (20 April 2019). "Gaza Christians wait for permits to visit Jerusalem and Bethlehem at Easter". The Observer – via The Guardian.
McKernan, Bethan (3 April 2023). "Mount of Olives becomes latest target in fight for control of Jerusalem". The Guardian.
Holmes, Oliver (5 January 2023). "Outcry over footage of men smashing cross at Jerusalem cemetery". The Guardian.

thekotel.org

english.thekotel.org

"What is the Western Wall?". The Kotel. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2007.

timesofisrael.com

"Tamar Pileggi 'Jews and Arabs proud to be Israeli, distrust government: Poll conducted before war shows marked rise in support for state among Arabs; religious establishment scores low on trust' (4 Jan 2015) The Times of Israel" http://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-and-arabs-proud-to-be-israeli-distrust-government/
"Rabbinate forms conversion vetting panel, raising hackles anew".

video.google.com

"Israel Channel 2 News - 23 February 200…". 8 April 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2008. (9 minute video, Hebrew audio, English subtitles)

visit-haifa.org

"Visit Haifa". Retrieved 17 February 2015.

wavesofdevotion.com

"Waves of Devotion". 30 June 2007.

web.archive.org

Sheetrit, Shimon (20 August 2001). "Freedom of Religion in Israel". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
"Table 2.1 — Population, by Religion and Population. As of may 2011 estimate the population was 76.0 Jewish. Group". Statistical Abstract of Israel 2006 (No. 57). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 September 2012.
"Global Restrictions on Religion (Full report)" (PDF). The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. December 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
"A Portrait of Israeli Jewry: Beliefs, Observances, and Values among Israeli Jews 2000" (PDF). The Israel Democracy Institute and The AVI CHAI Foundation. 2002. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
Dror-Cohen, Shlomit (12 September 2010). "Media Releases" לקט נתונים מתוך הסקר החברתי :2009 שמירה על המסורת היהודית ושינויים במידת הדתיות לאורך החיים בקרב האוכלוסייה היהודית בישראל [Social Survey 2009: Observance of Jewish Tradition and Changes in Religiosity of the Jewish Population in Israel]. Central Bureau of Statistics (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 16 November 2018.
"Population, by Population Group" (PDF). Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
"Freedom of Religion". BICOM. Archived from the original on 21 December 2005. Retrieved 14 October 2005.
The Status Quo Letter (DOC Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine) (in Hebrew) English translation in Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present, editors Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz. ISBN 978-0-87451-962-4
"ZENIT - Israel's Hebrew-Speaking Catholics". 27 September 2012. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
Daphna Berman. "Aliyah with a cat, a dog and Jesus". WorldWide Religious News citing & quoting "Haaretz", 10 June 2006. Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
example: The Christian Church, Jaffa Tel-Aviv website article in Hebrew Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine יהודים משיחיים - יהודים או נוצרים?
"Kababir". Israel and You. Archived from the original on 30 January 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
"Other visits to the Holy Land". Bahá'í World Centre. Archived from the original on 4 January 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
"What is the Western Wall?". The Kotel. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2007.
"ADL Calls On Chief Rabbis to Speak Out Against Interfaith Assaults In Old City". 17 October 2004. Archived from the original on 29 November 2008.

worldcat.org

Adam Berry (22 September 2004). "The Baháʼí Faith and its relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: A brief history". International Social Science Review. ISSN 0278-2308. Retrieved 5 March 2015.

wwrn.org

Daphna Berman. "Aliyah with a cat, a dog and Jesus". WorldWide Religious News citing & quoting "Haaretz", 10 June 2006. Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

ynetnews.com

"Israel 2010: 42% of Jews are secular". Ynetnews. 18 May 2010.
Druckman, Yaron (23 December 2012). "Christians in Israel: Strong in education". Ynetnews.

zenit.org

"ZENIT - Israel's Hebrew-Speaking Catholics". 27 September 2012. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2023.