 The nature of Christian identity varies among Christians as well.Christians in Israel are about evenly divided among those who say their identity is mainly a matter of religion (31%), those who say being Christian is mainly about ancestry and/or culture (34%) and those who say their identity is characterized by a combination of religion and ancestry/culture (34%).In September 2014, Ministry of the Interior Gideon Sa'ar instructed the to recognize Arameans as an ethnicity separate from Israeli Arabs.