Annual Assessments

2019 Annual Assessment

Global Trends and Policy Recommendations
Integrated Anti-Semitism Index: Europe and the US
Special Chapters: Jewish Creativity and Cultural Outputs

PROJECT HEAD

Shmuel Rosner

Contributors

Avinoam Bar-Yosef, Dan Feferman, Shlomo Fischer Avi Gil, Inbal Hakman, Michael Herzog, Dov Maimon, Gitit Paz-Levi, Steven Popper, Uzi Rebhun, John Ruskay, Noah Slepkov, Adar Schiber, Rami Tal, Shalom Salomon Wald

EDITOR

Barry Geltman

2019 Annual Assessment

2019 Annual Assessment

This past April, the Israeli population (Jews and non-Jews) passed the nine-million mark (Graph 6). Shortly after Israel won its independence, in November 1948, the local population numbered 873 thousand. It passed the one-million mark in early 1950, the two-million mark in 1959, the three-million mark in 1971, the four-million mark in 1983, the five-million mark in 1992, the six-million mark in 1999, the seven-million mark in 2007, the eight-million mark in 2014 and, as noted, the nine-million mark was just recently attained. A larger population, combined with high fertility rates and a positive international migration balance, are shortening the time periods that elapse between each million-person milestone. Thus, while it took 12 years for the Israeli population to grow from two to three million, only nine years passed between the four- and five-million marks, and it took just five years to go from eight to nine million. A Central Bureau of Statistics (interim) forecast calls for the Israeli population to reach 10.2 million by 2025.10

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