Por primera vez en la historia moderna hay más judíos en Israel que en ningún otro país

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More Jews in Israel than in any other country
For the first time since the first century, there are more Jews in Israel today than in any other country, according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday.
Ahead of Independence Day on Wednesday, the bureau, which is one of Israel's top demographers, announced that the country's population currently stands at 7.03 million, a population increase of 118,000 since a year ago. According to the report, 5.33 million are Jews, making up 76 percent of the total population. There are 1.39 million Arabs, contributing to approximately 20%.

"If current trends continue, there could be an absolute majority of world Jewry living in Israel within 25-30 years," said Professor Sergio Della-Pergola of the A. Harmann Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University and the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. He attributed the increase to the higher number of births than deaths amongst Israeli Jews - there were some 138,000 new babies born since Independence Day 2005 - estimating that this alone added around 70,000 to the current figure. "Israel is the only country in the world with a natural increase in its Jewish population," commented Della-Pergola.
By comparison, he said that population increases due to aliya were almost negated by the migration of Israelis abroad. Although there were 21,000 new immigrants, after taking migrants out of Israel into account, new olim only swelled the Jewish population by "a few thousand" this year.
The Jewish population of the United States is notoriously difficult to measure, according to Della-Pergola. "The last surveys were taken in 2001, and even then the figures are not as accurate as the numbers provided by Israeli statisticians," he said. The 2001 surveys stated that there were around 5.3 million Jews in America, though Della-Pergola expects that number to have declined somewhat over the last five years. "In 1990 there were an estimated 5.515 million Jews in the US, in 2001 there were only 5.3 million," he commented, and suggested that extrapolation of this declining figure would mean a figure today lower than the 2001 estimate.
Additional figures which emerged from the Central Bureau of Statistics report showed that the five most populated Israeli cities were Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Rishon Lezion and Ashdod, with a combined population of 1.79 million - a quarter of Israel's total population.
The most popular names for 'Independence Day babies' are Medina, Tikva, Nitzona, Dror and Drora, while of those born after the Six-Day War, 40 were given the name Zahal. (The Jerusalem Post)