Israel's Non-Jews Number 11 Pct. of Entire Population
Slovakia Chief Rabbi Visits British Colleagues ,
LONDON (JTA) — Rabbi Elias monwealth.
Eleven per cent of Israel's pop- spoken, education, labor farce and in rural areas and among women Katz, chief rabbi of Slovakia, ar-
Rabbi Brodie said Rabbi Katz
ulation is non-Jewish, a 60 per housing conditions.
with no education.
rived in London in response of an will meet with rabbinic leaders of
cent increase since 1948, it is re-
Maps of urban and rural dis-
Over two-thirds of the males invitation from Dr. Israel Brodie, Britain to discuss problems of Jew-
ported in the recently issued Pub-
lication 17 of the 1961 population
and housing census.
The non-Jewish population fig-
ure at the time of the census was
247,000. Half of this number are
children under age 14, born after
the establishment of the state, and
almost three-quarters are under
30.
The publication presents much
data on Israel's Moslem, Christian
and Druze population, including
statistical tables on the composi-
tion of the non-Jewish population
by sex, age and personal status,
marriage and fertility, languages
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tribution, diagrams and a list of
above age 14 are literate; it is 30 chief rabbi of the British Com- ish religious law.
Arab, Druze and Beduin vilages
per cent among women.
also are listed in the publica-
tion, for the first time printed in
Israel Agricultural Mission
three languages: Hebrew, Eng-
on 10-Day Visit to Turkey
lish and Arabic.
ANKARA (JTA)—A 10-member
Three-quarters of the non-Jew- Israeli agricultural delegation,
ish population are concentrated in headed by Shaul Homski of the
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Serge Fournier, Conducting
One,fifth of the married women Ministry of Agriculture.
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