Almost half of all of the Jews in the world live in Israel and the current world Jewish population is still lower than it was on the eve of the Holocaust in 1939.
This is according to data released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) on the eve of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, which begins Sunday night. The CBS reported on both the total number of Jews in the world and the total number of remaining Holocaust survivors.
At the end of 2023, the world Jewish population was 15.7 million, of them 7.1 million live in Israel (45% of the world Jewish population) and 6.3 million (40% of the world Jewish population) live in the United States.
In 1939, on the eve of World War II, the world Jewish population was 16.6 million, of whom 449,000 (3%) lived in Israel.
In 1948, on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel, the world Jewish population was 11.5 million, of whom 650,000 (6%) lived in Israel.
On the eve of Holocaust Day 2024, there are about 133,000 Holocaust survivors and victims of anti-Semitic acts perpetrated during the Holocaust living in Israel.
Based on data for the beginning of 2024, reported the CBS, women constitute 62% of the Holocaust survivors, and men 38%.
Of the survivors, about 6.2% immigrated to Israel before the establishment of the state, from 1933–1947. About one-third (30.5%) of the survivors immigrated to Israel in the great wave of immigration that came after the establishment of the state (1948–1951). Another 29.8% immigrated in the years 1952–1989, and about one-third (33.5%) immigrated since the 1990s, during the last wave of immigration from the USSR (former).
TPS
They are sad statistics. And we shall not allow them to decrease.