Re: Israel demographics?
On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Jesse Lemisch wrote:
These figures are quite startling. They are indeed voting with
their feet, in a way that has to have an impact in Israel and even possibly on
their politics (though I can’t be optimistic about this).
The Jewish pop is growing - about 1.6% a year over the last decade.
But the Arab pop is growing twice as fast. Plenty here:
By the way, the sum of the Jewish and Arab pops is about 102% of the
total. Are there Arab Jews who get counted twice? Is it like
“Hispanic” here, “which can be of any race”?
Doug