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The majority of Ashkenazim in Israel today tend to vote for left-wing and centrist parties, favoring especially Blue and White and Yesh Atid, while other Jewish subdivisions such as Mizrahi Jews in Israel tend to favor more right-wing parties such as Likud, with the distinction sharpening since 1980. [9]
Total population; 10 [1] –11.2 [2] million: Regions with significant populations United States 5–6 million [3] Israel 2.8 million [1] [4] Russia 194,000–500,000; according to the FJCR, up to 1 million of Jewish descent
From 1990 to 2005, 230,000 Israelis left the country; a large proportion of these departures included people who initially immigrated to Israel and then reversed their course (48% of all post-1990 departures and even 60% of 2003 and 2004 departures were former immigrants to Israel). 8% of Jewish immigrants in the post-1990 period left Israel ...
When 20-year-old Aya Najame, an Arab Muslim, was a little girl growing up in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, she would go on cultural exchange trips to Jewish schools to learn about the ...
Many of Israel's Hasidic Jews (being exclusively of Ashkenazi descent) are raised speaking Yiddish. [123] Classical Hebrew is the language of most Jewish religious literature, such as the Tanakh (Bible) and Siddur (prayerbook). Currently, 90% of the Israeli-Jewish public is proficient in Hebrew, and 70% is highly proficient. [124]
More recently, migration loss to Israel amongst French Jews reached the tens of thousands between 2014 and 2017, following a wave of anti-Semitic attacks. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, over the next four decades the number of Jews around the world is expected to increase from 14.2 million in 2015 to 16.4 million ...
An exhibit and luncheon are planned in Fort Worth to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the formation of Israel. Israel was formed 75 years ago. Here’s how Jewish people in Fort Worth celebrated
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