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Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Houthis and the Jews

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The following are remarks that the author delivered to the European Organizations Union for Peace in Yemen and the Yemeni Coalition of Independent Women, at the conference, “Terrorism & Violations of the Rights of...
Israeli children on the first day of the school in Jerusalem, Sept. 1, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Jewish world population increases to 15.2 million with 45.3 percent living in Israel

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The number of Jews worldwide stands at roughly 15.2 million, according to statistics released by the Jewish Agency for Israel on the eve of the Jewish new year 5782. That number is up from 15.1...
A security guard stands in the empty Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Global Jewish population still short of pre-Holocaust figure

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Eighty-one years after the Holocaust, the global Jewish population is still short of the 16.6 million estimated to have been alive on the eve of the war in 1939, with Israel’s Central Bureau of...
Worshippers gather for the ritual of Tisha B'Av at the Wall Western in the Old City of Jerusalem early morning Aug. 9, 2011. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Jewish population worldwide hits 14.8 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah

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The global Jewish population hovers around 14.8 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of the Jewish new year 5780, according to estimates published by Professor Sergio Della Pergola of the Hebrew...