https://www.jwire.com.au/nearly-half-of-the-worlds-jews-live-in-israel/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.jwire.com.au/nearly-half-of-the-worlds-jews-live-in-israel/#comment-625506 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:32:01 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=146550#comment-625506 Sometimes the starkness of a statistic can shock: 16.6 million Jews on the eve of World War II, and under ten years later 11.5 million, the beginning of 2022 seeing 15.3 million Jews in the world. All this time later, and despite the flourishing of the State of Israel, we still haven’t caught up to that original number. It speaks for itself. And is a shock to the senses.

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