"10500"^^ . . "22px|borderArameans in Israel22px|border"@en . . . "Arameans in Israel are persons residing in Israel who identify as Arameans (or Aramaeans), (Aramaic: \u0710\u072A\u0308\u0721\u071D\u0710\u200E, \u05D0\u05E8\u05DE\u05D9\u05D0 ; \u02BCaram\u00E1y\u00E9), a Northwest Semitic people who originated in what is now present-day western, southern and central Syria (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age.Some Syriac Christians in the Middle East (particularly in Syria and Israel) still espouse an Aramean ethnic identity to this day and a minority still speak various Aramaic dialects or languages."@en . . . . .