YNet The global Jewish population reached 13.75 million in the past year, with an increase of 88,000 people, a study by Hebrew University Professor Sergio DellaPergola reveals.
According to the study, one out of every 514 people in the world is Jewish, less than 0.2% of mankind.
According to the study, one out of every 514 people in the world is Jewish, less than 0.2% of mankind.
About 43% of the world’s Jewish community lives in Israel, making Israel the country with the largest Jewish population.
The Israeli Jewish
population stands at 5,978,600, up 1.8%; the Arab population numbers at
1,636,600, up 2.4%; and the rest of the population including Christians
and non-Jews reached 318,000 people, up 1.3%. Israel’s Jewish population
makes up 75% of the state’s total people.
This number is really a mixing of apples and oranges. In most countries,
ReplyDeletethe people being counted are those who self-identify as Jews. In EY,
it's the people the rabbanut counts as Jews.
The number of non-Jews in the chu"l count is far far greater than those
in the EY count. So, when Prof Della-Pergola or YNet concludes "About
43% of the world's Jewish community lives in Israel", the percentage of
halachic Jews in EY is far higher.
It has probably reached rov. And all the rishonim's discussion of
shemitah, yovel, and tu"m deOraisa, and whether it depends on the shevatim
being back in their own nachalos or not, is now halakhah lemaaseh.