The percentage of Jewish residents in Jerusalem is at its lowest since the city’s reunification in the 1967 Six-Day War. At the end of 2003, 67 percent of Jerusalem’s 693,000 residents were Jewish, while 33 percent were Arab, according to the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies’ Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem.
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