Nearly a third of the immigrants who have come to Israel since 1989 have settled in the northern part of the country, reversing a demographic trend that had troubled Israelis for years.
According to a report last week in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, 108,500 olim, mostly from the Soviet Union, were absorbed in the northern region. They represent 31.2 percent of the 347,500 who arrived since mass aliyah from the Soviet Union began three years ago.
For many years, the North tended to be underpopulated by Jews and Israeli Arabs seemed likely to become the majority in Galilee.
Now, the North accounts for 22 percent of Israel’s total population, Uri Gordon, head of the Jewish Agency’s Immigration and Absorption Department, said last week.
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