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2000 BCE
ANTIQUITY
The ethnicities and language religions of the Israel region during antiquity 4000 years ago came from the *Hebrew Bible. Israel's origins can be traced all the way back to Abraham, the father of both *Judaism and Islam.The language is spoken in ancient times in Palestine, the language was *Hebrew but was replaced by the western dialect of Aramaic and was continued to be used from the 3rd century to about the 19th century. -
300
Romans expanded the empire
The Romans were building an empire in Palestine circa AD, and later in 300 CE a new ethnicities began arriving and they brought a new religion. -
600
Arabs invaded
The Arabs invaded in the 600s CE, and this impacted the ethnicities, language, religion of this region. Their ethnicities changed to *Arabs, the language is *Arabic, and their religion is *Muslim. -
TODAY
There are different ethnicities and religions in Israel today. Three-fourths of the total *the population is Jewish. The rest of the population are *Palestinian Arabs, who are *Muslim, then the other Arabs are Christians and Druz, who each make up a small number of the total population in Israel. The most spoken everyday language of Israel today is *Hebrew. Hebrew is Israel’s premier official language currently used.