According to data issued by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) a third of Israelis will be chareidi by 2065 provided present trends continue. By then, the population will reach 25 million according to optimistic estimates.
Lower forecasts set the 2065 population between 15.8 to 20.1 million.
Over the past year, a 167,000 population growth pushed up Israel’s population by 2%. 24,000 Jews moved to Israel in 2016, 77% from Europe, 17% from the Americas, 4% from Asia and 2% from Africa.
{Matzav.com Israel News}
What? 25 million? how so?
kein yirbu!!!
Chaval that every Jew in Israel is not yet religious. Getting There 🙂
And how would Israel field an army(military)???
This is gonna lead to a major fight in Israel. hopefully it wont turn physical!
How do they define Chareidim? Pigeonholeling Jews is pirud. Either you are a Jew that strives to uphold halachah (note the emphasis on strives), or you aren’t.
this is great, hopefully this will lead to at a minimum a 3rd of the budget dedicated to Torah.
The Israeli budget already is probably the single biggest spender on Torah!
How will this effect the dreaded age-gap crisis?