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Friday, April 23, 1999 | return to: international
Israel’s population jumps to 6 million in latest census
by JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's population totals 6 million, a 2.3 percent increase over the previous year, according to statistics, Jerusalem remains the country's largest city with 632,000 residents, followed by Tel Aviv with just over half that number, accor
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From a global standpoint, Israel's 4.8 million Jews account for 36 percent of the world's 13.1 million Jews, according to a study released this week by Hebrew University's department of contemporary Jewry.
In 1948, there were 650,000 Jews in Israel -- 6 percent of the world's 11.5 million Jews. By the early 1970s the approximately 2.6 million Jews in Israel accounted for 21 percent of world Jewry, which totaled about 12.6 million.
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