For the first time since Israel became an independent nation in 1948, there are more Jews living in Israel than in the United States, thus making the Jewish state the home of the largest Jewish population in the world, the Breitbart website reports today (April 1, 2013).
There are now 6 million Jews in Israel and 5.5 million in America, 2 million of whom live in New York. About 500,000 Jews live in France, and almost 300,000 live in the United Kingdom.
Among the 8 million residents of Israel, there are 1.6 million Arabs and 350,000 non-Arab Christians or other groups.
The number six million has obvious significance to Jews the world over, since six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. But it can now be legitimately claimed that a plurality of Jews live in Israel.
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