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Stats released for Holocaust Remembrance Day show 212K survivors living in Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNew demographics released by the Central Bureau of Statistics in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which will be marked on Sunday, show that there are roughly 212,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel.
The numbers from the end of 2017 mark a drop of roughly 9,000 people from the previous year.
According to the CBS, 100 percent of survivors are above the age of 72 and some 30% are above the age of 85.
Sixty percent of survivors living in Israel are women while 40% are men.
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