Unreached peoples of Israel

An overview of the country's people groups, focusing on those who still have little or no access to the gospel in their own language and culture.

Overview

Israel brings together dozens of people groups within a small territory, marked especially by the many origins of the Jewish people and by the Arab minority, mostly Muslim. Many of these groups are still considered unreached by the gospel, and many languages still lack a complete Bible translation. The greatest challenge is not the lack of physical access, but the cultural and spiritual barriers surrounding the name of Jesus in this land.

In the country i

1.6%Christians

0.7%evangelicals

By population i

97.2%unreached

0.2%significantly reached

97.2% Unreached (9.1M)
0.2% Minimally reached (19K)
0.1% Superficially reached (8K)
2.3% Partially reached (212K)
0.2% Significantly reached (23K)

By people groups i

50people groups

43unreached · 86%

86% Unreached (43)
2% Minimally reached (1)
2% Superficially reached (1)
8% Partially reached (4)
2% Significantly reached (1)

Source of people group data: Joshua Project (joshuaproject.net). Estimates, may vary.

Source: Joshua Project. Estimates, may vary.

Unreached people groups · 50

People	Population	Language	Evang.	Chr.
Mashhadi Persian Jew Frontier	22K	Hebrew	0%	0%
Georgian Jew	66K	Judeo-Georgian	0.9%	1%
Yemenite Jew Frontier	44K	Judeo-Yemeni Arabic	0%	0%
Portuguese-speaking Jews	67K	Portuguese	0.3%	0.9%
Domari Roma Frontier	1.9M	Iranian Persian	0.1%	0.1%
Kurdish Jew Frontier	6K	Hulaula	0%	0%
Bukharan Jew Frontier	164K	English	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Yevanic Jew Frontier	90	Hebrew	0%	0%
German Jews	127K	Standard German	0.1%	0.4%
Muslim Lebanese Arab	5.4M	Levantine Arabic	0.7%	17.3%
Israeli Jews	4.9M	Hebrew	0.2%	0.2%
Jew	244K	Levantine Arabic	0.3%	0.7%
Tripolitanian Jew Frontier	43K	Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic	0%	0%
Arabic-Speaking Algerian Frontier	38.2M	Algerian Arabic	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Libyan Arab Frontier	2.8M	Libyan Arabic	0.1%	0.8%
Berber Jew Frontier	3K	Judeo-Berber	0%	0%
Tehrani Persian Jew Frontier	189K	Iranian Persian	0%	0%
Romanian Jew Frontier	184K	Hebrew	0.1%	0.1%
Egyptian Arab	73.6M	Egyptian Arabic	0.5%	1.4%
Dutch Jew	34K	Dutch	0.1%	0.5%
Kurdish Jew Frontier	10K	Lishana Deni	0%	0%
Spanish Jew	62K	Hebrew	0.1%	0.2%
Eastern Bedawi Bedouin Frontier	595K	Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic	0%	< 0.1%
Lishanan Jew Frontier	5K	Lishan Noshan	0%	0%
Turkish Jew Frontier	53K	Hebrew	0%	0%
French Jew Frontier	352K	French	< 0.1%	0.1%
Palestinian Arab	11.5M	Levantine Arabic	1%	3.6%
Marathi-speaking Jew Frontier	15K	Marathi	< 0.1%	0.1%
Cochin Jews Frontier	13K	Malayalam	0.1%	0.1%
Moroccan Jew Frontier	189K	French	0%	0%
Samaritan Frontier	2K	Hebrew	0%	0%
Polish Jew	147K	Polish	0.4%	0.6%
Ladino Frontier	57K	Ladino	0%	0%
Hungarian-speaking Jew Frontier	71K	Hungarian	0.1%	0.1%
Masalit	691K	Masalit	0.1%	0.2%
Litvish Jew Frontier	795K	Hebrew	0%	0%
Arbil Lishanid Noshan Frontier	4K	Jewish Inter-Zab Neo-Aramaic	0%	0%
Druze	1.2M	Levantine Arabic	0.3%	0.3%
Tunisian Jews Frontier	13K	Hebrew	0%	0%
Hasidic Jew Frontier	1.1M	Hebrew	0%	0%
Tat Jew Frontier	111K	Judeo-Tat	0%	0%
Adyghe Frontier	458K	Adyghe	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Yahudic Jews Frontier	112K	Judeo-Iraqi Arabic	< 0.1%	< 0.1%
Tigrayans and Tigrinyas	10.5M	Tigrinya	0.9%	95.8%
English-speaking Jews	4.8M	English	1.7%	2.5%
Deaf Frontier	27.5M	Pakistan Sign Language	1.8%	3.7%
Russian Jew	1.6M	Russian	1.8%	2.1%
Italian	37.4M	Italian	1.3%	86.2%
Ethiopian Jew	87K	Amharic	2.7%	3%
Tagalog Filipino	40.4M	Tagalog	14.7%	97.8%

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