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193,800 Holocaust survivors currently living in Israel — statistics agency
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAhead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics releases data on the 193,800 Holocaust survivors living in Israel as of December.
The CBS says 64 percent of the survivors are from Europe, while 11% survived the Farhud pogrom in Iraq during June 1941. Another 16% are from Morocco and 2% from Algeria, both of which placed restrictions on Jews as colonies of France’s Vichy regime.
All of those listed as Holocaust survivors are 74 or older, with 15% over 90-years-old.
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