TIMES OF ISRAEL
A Jew? So Few!
by Irwin E. Blank
September 27, 2015
…With almost 7 Billion people in the world right now, there are only approximately 14.2 Million Jews. The Jewish people make up 0.2% of the planet’s total population. So, to be born Jewish, you have a 1 in 505 chance to accomplish that. There were 17 million Jews in 1939, the first year of the Second World War; before the Holocaust took the lives of 6 million Jews, two-thirds of the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe and one-third of world Jewry including 1.5 million children under the age of fourteen-an entire generation whose loss was proportionately greater than the “Lost Generation” of World War One. READ MORE