 German Air Force pilots joined the Israeli Air Force on April 26, the annual Independence Day flyover that marks 75 years of the Jewish state's existence. This year over 100 aircraft participated including foreign air forces from Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. The celebrations for the 75th anniversary of Israel's 1948 independence took place this year while the country has been mired in weeks of unprecedented nationwide protests, primarily in response to a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Nationalist Religious Coalition to overhaul the judiciary. Ahead of Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics issued updated population figures of 9.727 million, of which 7.145 million, 73.5%, are Jewish and 2.048 million Arab, with 5.5% other.