New population statistics released by Israel should settle one question: “Which country has the largest Jewish community?”
Israel’s 7.7 million Jews — according to the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics — have overtaken the 7.5 million Jews estimated to be in the USA in the 2020 Pew survey.
Although some would argue that Israel reached number 1 some time ago, believing that the Pew survey figure was over-generous.
The Jewish Agency’s total for the global Jewish population this year — 15.8 million — includes a “core” Jewish population of 6.3 million for the USA. (If this is correct, world Jewry has yet to recover to the 16.6 million recorded on the eve of the Second World War).