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Jerusalem think tank: City’s negative migration halted for 1st time in a decade
A Jerusalem think tank says latest data shows negative migration from the city has been stopped for the first time in a decade.
According to the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, ultra-Orthodox employment is also on the rise, and the capital’s hi-tech industry is growing at the fastest rate in the country.

Jerusalem mayor Moshe Lion speaks during a press conference for the 2019 Jerusalem marathon in Jerusalem on February 12, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion calls the findings “very impressive in each and every parameter” and says “Jerusalem is Israel’s leader in every sense of the word.”
A December report by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed the city’s population is one of the least prosperous in Israel.
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