JERUSALEM, Apr 27 (NNN-PNA) – There were 165,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Israel by 2021, the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics announced, ahead of the national Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The figure was issued on Monday on the occasion of Israel’s annual memorial day of “Yom HaShoah,” with this year’s commemoration spanning from this evening to tomorrow evening.
It is an official day to honour the six million Jews who died at the hands of Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.
The bureau noted that in 1939, just before the Second World War, the Jewish population worldwide reached 16.6 million.
After the world war, on the eve of the establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948, the world Jewish population was 11.5 million, it added.
The bureau added that, at the end of 2020, the world Jewish population was 15.2 million, of which 45.4 percent, or 6.9 million Jews, lived in Israel, while 6 million lived in the United States, 445,000 in France, 393,000 in Canada, and 292,000 in the United Kingdom.
About 5.4 million Jews living in Israel at the end of 2020 were born in the country, while one million were born in Europe or in America, 284,400 in Africa, and 153,700 were born in Asia.– NNN-PNA
