Arameans in Israel (Arabic: آراميون‎, Hebrew: ארמים‎, Aramaic: ܐܪ̈ܡܝܐ‎) are an Arabic-speaking Christian minority residing in Israel who identify as Arameans, Syriac-Arameans or Syriacs. They are claiming descent from a Northwest Semitic people who originated in what is now western, southern and central Syria region (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age.[citation needed]