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Rosh Hashana Eve: 8.081 million Israelis
Omri Efraim
Published: 02.09.13, 13:17
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31. to # 14 Eaglebeak
Richard S. ,   Miami, USA   (09.02.13)
Wrong. The ethnicity would be Semite, although in Russia, being marked as Jewish defined you as an ethnic group.
32. #19
Harold ,   USA   (09.02.13)
Your words have no value. Try to expel the non-Jews please.
33. #20-Wrong
Mickey ,   Sydney, Australia   (09.02.13)
Israel is a Jewish state in that its culture has a Jewish flavour. Thus Saturday, not Sunday is the official Shabbat . The official public holidays are Pesach, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, not Christmas or Easter. Family law and Commercial law have large dolops of Jewish law even though the Legal system follows English procedures.
34. #28 Which one of #24's statements is NOT true?
A ,   Belgium   (09.03.13)
Arabs are forbidden to sell land to Jews in every Arab country AND Judah and Samaria...TRUE. Abbas has publicly declared that he wants "palestine" free of Jews (while lying and claiming that he refers only "occupation forces" and "setllers"...TRUE. Coptic churches are being destroyed and Christians are being attacked in Egypt...TRUE. And we all saw the pictures of the Syrian eating his opponents heart, all except YOU, maybe, and that's because your head is so deeply buried in a certain part of your body, that even if the TRUTH came up behind you and kicked you in that certain part of your body, you still wouldn't believe it. But that's ok, you just go on believing in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and "palestine".
35. Figures misleading...WHAT CONSTITUTES A JEW.
Anthony Fallon ,   Manchester UK   (09.08.13)
Could someone please tell me whether the census category of 'Jews' refers only to Halachic Jews or to non-Halachic ones as well, who, since 1948 have been able to make Aliyah under the' law of return'. It seems to me that if 'Jews' ONLY refers to Halachic ones then the 4.2% seems very small for 'others' if you count up all Christian denominations,Non Halachic Jews (incl. many Russians who immigrated to Israel post fall of USSR), Buddhists, Baharrists etc. I was told in 1995 by a teacher from the Livnot Lehibanot course in Jerusalem that there were AT LEAST 300,000 RUSSIAN non-Halachic Jews who were living within Israel's 1967 borders at the time.
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