JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released data about Israel’s population prior to the country’s 74th anniversary. The data reveal that the Jewish population of Israel now tops 7 million, representing a tenfold increase from the outset of the state in 1948 when the Jewish population numbered about 670,000.
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Currently the population of Israel stands at 9,506,000 according to the CBS, with 7.02 million Jews accounting for 73.9 percent of the population, 2 million Arabs representing 21% of the population and 478,000 other groups amounting to 5% of the population. 79% of Israelis were born in the country.
Since last year’s Independence Day, 191,000 babies were born, 55,000 people died, and 38,000 people immigrated to the country, according to CBS statistics. 76% of the births were Jewish, as Jewish fertility rates topped Arab fertility rates in 2021 for the third straight year.
About 50% of the immigrants are from Ukraine, Russia and surrounding areas, with a large number arriving in the last few months in the wake of the Ukraine war.
The other immigrants came from the United States, France, Belarus, Argentina, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia and Canada, among other countries, the Jewish Agency said.
“Every Jew and Jewess who immigrates to Israel contributes to the resilience of the state and to the strength of Israeli society,” the acting chairman of the Jewish Agency said in a statement.
Overall, the Israeli population increased by some 176,000 people, amounting to a 1.9% rise.
During the same period a year earlier, the population increased by some 137,000 people, including 16,300 new immigrants — about half the figure seen in the last year.
Based on current trends, the population is predicted to reach 11.1 million by 2030, and 13.2 million by 2040 according to CBS estimates.
Israel’s population is also young, the CBS said — 28% of the population is aged 0-14, and only 12% is aged 65 and over.
by the way in the “Jewish” category it includes Right of Return eligibles with 1 grandfather they never met that is Jewish or Bantu Ethiopians the 5% “others” are Filipinos and the like so a good 10% of the Jews are not in fact Jewish.
Read the JTA story posted on VIN today about the Churban orphan survivors who made full, rich lives in Israel over the past 74 years.
https://vinnews.com/2022/05/02/holocaust-survivors-reunite-with-long-lost-family-members-hold-bar-mitzvah-celebration-at-age-of-92/
Many of those “Jews” counted in the “Jewish population” are not.
And here is the demographic unpacking of Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics report.
The only part of the Jewish population experiencing very rapid growth are we, Chareidim. The Datim have a lesser rate of growth but still, very healthy. Large beautiful families.
The rest, the secular, are either not growing at all, perhaps even shrinking, or, at best growing extremely slowly. Some marry late, some never marry at all, “alternative lifestyles…” They are still doing better than non-Israeli Jews, not marrying goyas as much, simply because there are almost no goyas around to marry. Otherwise, I fear, they would be disappearing as rapidly as American Jews.
In any event, in the relatively near future, in one generation or two, the majority of Israeli Jews will be Torah Jews.