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Israeli Canadians

ישראלים קנדים (Hebrew) Canadiens israéliens (French)
Total population
35,345 (by ancestry, 2021 Census)
Languages
Canadian English · Canadian French · Hebrew · Arabic · Russian · Yiddish
Religion
Mostly Jewish (Muslim and Christian minorities)
Related ethnic groups
Canadian Jews, Arab Canadians

Israeli Canadians (Hebrew: יִשְׂרְאֵלִים קָנָדִים) are Canadian citizens of Israeli descent or Israel-born people who reside in Canada. According to the 2011 Census there were 15,010 Canadians who claimed full or partial Israeli ancestry, although it is estimated that as many as 30,000 Israelis live in Canada, making it home to one of the largest Israeli diaspora groups in the world.

According to the 2016 Population Group Reference Guide published by Statistics Canada, those who trace their ancestry to present-day Israel or the greater Levant are classified as West Asian origin and visible minorities, provided they do not specify another European write-in response.

Demographics

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Israeli Canadians by province or territory

Province or territory	Israelis
Ontario	9,250
Quebec	3,100
British Columbia	1,190
Alberta	1,070
Manitoba	340
Nova Scotia	35
New Brunswick	25
Saskatchewan	1
Newfoundland and Labrador	0
Yukon	0
Prince Edward Island	0
Northwest Territories	0
Nunavut	0

Israeli Canadians by city

Prominent Canadians of Israeli descent

Moshe Safdie	Sofia Polgar	Corey Haim	Sam Katz
Niv Fichman	Simcha Jacobovici	Eliezer Sherbatov

See also

• Middle Eastern Canadians
• West Asian Canadians
• History of the Jews in Canada
• Canada–Israel relations
• Yerida
• Israeli Americans

References

1. "Canada Census Profile 2021". Census Profile, 2021 Census. Statistics Canada Statistique Canada. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
2. "A History of the Canadian Jewish Community". Archived from the original on 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
3. Visible Minority and Population Group Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016

Further reading

• Linn, R., & Barkan-Ascher, N. (1994). Imaginary Suitcases in the Lives of Israeli Expatriates in Canada: A Psychological Look at a Unique Historical Phenomenon. Canadian Jewish Studies Études Juives Canadiennes, 2. https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.19785.

v t e Canadians of Asian descent by area of origin
Central Asia	Afghan Kazakh Tatar Tajik Uzbek
East Asia	Chinese Hong Kong Japanese Korean Mongolian Taiwanese Tibetan
Southeast Asia	Cambodian Filipino Indonesian Laotian Malaysian Singaporean Thai Vietnamese
South Asia	Bangladeshi Indian Nepali Pakistani Punjabi Sri Lankan Tamil Sindhi
West Asia	Arab Iraqi Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Syrian Yemeni Armenian Assyrian Azerbaijani Georgian Iranian Israeli Jewish Turkish

• Canada
• Israel

• Israeli diaspora in Canada
• Canadian people of Israeli descent
• Israeli diaspora in North America
• Canada–Israel relations
• Jews and Judaism in Canada
• Jewish Canadian history
• Middle Eastern diaspora in Canada