Israel’s existence is threatened by a demographic situation in which the non-Jewish population in the region is growing faster than the Jewish population, Israel Radio reported, citing a University of Haifa demographer. “In another 20 years, the Jewish people will be in the minority in Israel,” Professor Arnon Soffer told a Knesset committee.
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