The number of Jews around the world is lower than before World War II, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday ahead of the Jewish State's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to the CBS, there are approximately 14.5 million Jews in the world, compared to 16.6 million in 1939 when World War II began.
The compilation uses census figures from 2016, it said.Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins Wednesday evening on the theJewish calendar, commemorates the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis during World War II.Nearly half of the world's Jews -- 6.44 million -- live in Israel, with the United States home to the second largest population of 5.7 million.Nearly half a million Jews live in France, 390,000 in Canada and 290,000 in Britain.
AFP