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}}</ref> It was to be a "national home for the Jewish people".<ref name="balfour1917">{{REFdocument |title=Balfour Declaration |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187152#/media/File:Balfour_declaration_unmarked.jpg |contribution= |last=Balfour |first=Arthur |publisher=Foreign Office |format=PDF |date=1917-11-02 |accessdate=2024-04-22}}</ref>
Hebrew, the long dead language of the Jews, was revived and is the official language, although English is also widely spoken. Arabic is a secondary language.
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The ''Times of Israel'' (2014) reported that the [https://supreme.court.gov.il/sites/en/Pages/home.aspx High Court] overturned a [https://www.gov.il/en/departments/the_rabbinical_courts/govil-landing-page Rabbinical Court ] decision that would have forced a woman to have a boy [[circumcised]]. The High Court stated that the [https://www.gov.il/en/departments/the_rabbinical_courts/govil-landing-page Rabbinical Court] "lacked the jurisdiction to force the procedure."<ref>{{REFnews
|title=High Court rules against coerced circumcision
|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/high-court-rules-against-coerced-circumcision/
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The percentage of males [[circumcised]] in Israel (prevalence) is was reported to be 91.7%.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://circstatistics.github.io/
|title=Global Circumcision Statistics and Estimates
|publisher=https://circstatistics.github.io
|date=2024-04-01