At its peak in 1939, the world Jewish population stood at 16.6 million, of whom 449,000 lived in the land of Israel, at the time ruled by a British mandate introduced following the Ottoman defeat in Palestine in World War I. But by 1948, the year that Israel was established as an ind...
Since 1981, responsibility for preparing annual population estimates for world Jewry was taken by the Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics of the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Division was founded by Roberto Bachi in 1959, was headed ...
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global energy production would need to rise by 1.3% per year. By the 2030s, demand is estimated to be nearly 50% greater than today. To meet that demand, even assuming more effective conservation measures, the world would need to add roughly the equivalent ...
This research examines land use change in Israel––an intriguing but understudied setting with regard to population–environment dynamics.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday after the US abstained, leading Israel to cancel a high-level visit to Washington. In the first such demand since the war began in October, the resolution called for an immediate cessation of hostilities for th...
The report also puts the number of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip at approximately 1.4 million, in the West Bank at approximately 2.4 million, and in East Jerusalem at nearly 240,000. The figures were analysed by the website The Electronic Intifada. This new reality has to be ...
The million person gap: The Arab population in the West Bank and Gaza. Ramat Gan: The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Mideast Security and Policy Studies. 65. Google Scholar Zimmerman, B., Seid, R., Wise, M. L., Ettinger, Y., Shahaf, D., Sohar, E., Passig, D., & ...
This chapter examines the size, geographic distribution and selected characteristics of the Jewish population in the world at the beginning of 2015. The total of world Jewry was assessed at 14.3 million, an increase of 95,000 over the previous year. Jews
Rafah is a city along the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. During the Israel-Hamas War it became a final refuge for both civilians and what Israeli officials claimed was the “last bastion” of Hamas fighters.