Excerpt from Israel's Agricultural Economy in Brief Israel's rural population-consisting of residents of large and small villages, kibbutzim (collective villages), and other rural settlements, and members of Bedouin tribes-comprised 18 percent of the total population in 1967. About percent of the population is Jewish; 43 percent of the Jewish population are Sabras (israeli born). Of the remaining population percent are Arab (both Moslem and Chris tian) and about percent are Druze and other minorities. Israel is a Jewish state with Islam and Christianity as minor ity religions. The literacy rate in Israel is above 90 percent, the highest in the Middle East and one of the highest in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.