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Israeli children who will begin school and kindergarten on September 1 pose for a picture in Moshav Yashresh on August 27, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
August 31, 2025, 11:51 pm
For the 1st time, religious 1st-graders in Israel outnumber secular ones by thousands
Education Ministry data also shows 5,000 fewer children are enrolled in secular schools in the upcoming year compared to 2023; experts warn of implications for broader society
By Rossella Tercatin
Jewish schoolchildren at Athénée Ganenou in Brussels await the arrival of President Isaac Herzog, January 25, 2023. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 9, 2025, 7:25 pm
Muslims are world’s fastest-growing religious group; Jews far below pre-Holocaust numbers
Demographer Sergio DellaPergola says it will take another 10 to 20 years for world Jewry to fully regain 1930s level, predicts most Jews will live in Israel within next decade
By Rossella Tercatin
Immigrants from France arriving at Ben Gurion Airport, July 2018. (Nir Kafri, The Jewish Agency for Israel)
December 23, 2019, 5:45 pm
Population Authority dismisses claim 85% of immigrants to Israel aren’t Jewish
Hiddush, a religious freedom organization, releases erroneous number, obtained through a freedom of information request, also claiming 70% of US immigrants are non-Jews
By Sam Sokol
Three armed Palestinian men walk past Kibbutz Tzeelim in southern Israel after breaking through the security fence around the Gaza Strip on March 27, 2018. (Screen capture)
March 28, 2018, 1:04 pm
On the fence: 7 things to know for March 28
Palestinians chalk one up against the IDF by infiltrating into Israel, and government committee recommends converting non-Jews after Arabs claim demographic parity with Jews
By Adiv Sterman
A Palestinian Muslim woman walks by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, on June 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 27, 2018, 8:59 pm
Expert confirms Jews and Arabs nearing population parity
Hebrew University demographer defends military’s census figures for Israel and Palestinian territories that sparked backlash from right-wing lawmakers
By Aron Heller
Head of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky addresses the Knesset's Lobby of Religion and State on December 27, 2016 at the Knesset. Seated to his left is head of ITIM Rabbi Seth Farber and to his left, lobby co-chair MK Elazar Stern. (Courtesy ITIM)
December 27, 2016, 7:46 pm
MKs are utterly ignorant about Reform Judaism, says Sharansky
Almost a year after collapse of Western Wall compromise, Israeli and Diaspora Jewish leaders air grievances at a Knesset session of the Lobby of Religion and State
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2014' on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)
June 28, 2015, 6:43 pm
Worldwide Jewry nowhere near pre-WWII numbers, says foremost Jewish demographer
Contrary to reports that the Jewish population is approaching, and may even have passed, pre-Holocaust numbers, it actually falls more than two million short, says Prof. Sergio DellaPergola. Maybe try again in 35 years
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Italian neo-Nazis at a recent soccer match. (Illustrative image: YouTube screenshot)
February 3, 2015, 4:05 pm
Landmark report shows Italian Jewry fearful of anti-Semitism
More than half of Italian Jews considered anti-Semitism a ‘large problem’ in 2012, survey shows; demographer warns things have only gotten worse
By Rossella Tercatin
Hundreds of French immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 16, 2014 (photo credit: Flash 90)
January 14, 2015, 3:48 am
A massive wave of French aliya? The ‘Boeing Aliya’ trend suggests not
Lack of adequate job prospects already means many immigrants only live in Israel on the weekends, commuting to their jobs in France during the week
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A Jewish and an Arab man outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, December 10, 2014 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 5, 2015, 10:23 am
Right-wing annexation drive fueled by false demographics, experts say
New Palestinian statistics claim there are about as many non-Jews as Jews between the river and the sea. Although one ex-diplomat strongly contests this, official Israeli data suggests Ramallah is correct
By Elhanan Miller
Thousands of Christian Evangelists wave their national flag alongside the Israeli one as they march in a parade in the center of Jerusalem, marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot or the Feast of the Tabernacles. October 14, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 4, 2014, 9:35 pm
Christian Zionists funding Israel immigration still scares Jews
As Jewish institutions fight over American evangelicals’ deep pockets, an in-depth look at a controversial yet fruitful relationship
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative. A Boeing 747 El Al plane. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
November 24, 2014, 1:34 am
Italian immigration to Israel to double in 2014
Weak economy, youth unemployment factors behind estimated 300 Italian Jews making aliya this year
By JTA
A new Israeli immigrant receiving an identification card, Jerusalem, May 3, 2010. (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)
September 9, 2014, 10:54 pm
The end of aliya?
The vast majority of the Jewish Diaspora is now prosperous, safe and English-speaking; such people won’t immigrate because Israeli bureaucrats tell them to
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a session of the Conference Of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, on February 18, 2014 (Photo credit: Flash 90)
February 21, 2014, 2:44 pm
Liberman’s Diaspora speech panned as ‘poorly researched’
Some US Jewish leaders baffled by talk of bringing 3.5 million olim in a decade, spending $1m. a day on education overseas
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The Times of Israel infogram
September 16, 2012, 3:01 pm
Jewish by the numbers — The Times of Israel’s Rosh Hashanah infographic
Everything you wanted to know, statistically speaking, about the status of the tribe worldwide as we enter 5773
By ToI Staff
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