Report: Most Jerusalem kids Arab by 2020

A majority of the children in Jerusalem will be Arab by the year 2020, a new study found. The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies said in its report, released Wednesday, that if current trends continue, Arabs will constitute 40 percent of the city’s overall population, compared to 34 percent now and 26 percent in 1967. The study cited the Arab community’s average growth rate of 3.4 percent over the past four decades compared to the Jewish population’s 2.7 percent.