Palestine Jews will outnumber the Arabs of Palestine within twenty-five years, predicts the official report of the 1931 census which the government will publish this week. It declares that the Jews double their number every nine years, while the Arabs double their number only every twenty-eight years. It estimates that as there were 175,000 Jews in Palestine in 1931, they will reach 350,000 in 1940, 700,000 in 1949, and 1,400,000 in 1958. The Arabs, however, will be less than 1,200,000 in 1958. The Palestine Government’s calculations are based on the figures of natural birth plus the present rate of immigration.
The official census which analyzes the various classes of Jews actually establishes that there are thirty-seven different types of Jews at present residing in Palestine.
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