We Stand With Israel

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Israelis marrying later and living longer.

Times of Israel

The Detroit Jewish News honors the following people who
supported the 'We Stand With Israel, Am Yisrael Chai' Project:

JUDITH ANCELL
GARY & MARY LOU BERNDT
ASHLEY & JORDAN BROAD
ASHER & ELIE BRODE
AMY & ADAM BRODE
HELENE BRODSKY BRODY
RONALD AND BARBARA COBURN
KERI AND DON COHEN
PAM AND MICHAEL FRIEDMAN
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MICKEY LEIB
HELEN LEVY
BARBARA MANDELL
STEWART MANDELL
PEARL & SEYMOUR MANELLO
JIM AND LYNN NEWMAN
TORI NOE
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MIKE SMITH
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CHANA & MARK SOLWAY
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SHELLY AND STUART SOLWAY
NORMAN TREPECK
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(for care packages for the troops)

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(which provides ambulances to help the wounded)

WALK FOR ISRAEL

(which educates our local community on Israel and Israel-related issues)

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Nurses attend to newborn babies at Bikur Holim, a 200-bed general hospital, in Jerusalem.

srael's population grew by 1.9 per-

54 percent of men and 33.3 percent

cent during the Jewish year 5774,

of women in 2000. The ratio of men

which ended Sept. 24, according

to women remains the same, with 982

to the annual survey of the Israeli Cen-

tral Bureau of Statistics, traditionally

published just before Rosh Hashanah,

men in Israel for every 1,000 women.

Among the Muslim population, the

percentage of unmarried people was

the Jewish New Year. The survey sug-

lower than among Jews, but greater

gested that the typical Israeli is an

than it was in 2000 — 45.5 percent of

unmarried, secular, 30-year-old Jewish

men and 18.8 percent of women aged

woman living in the center of Israel.

25-29 were unmarried, compared with

Israel's population has reached 8.13

million, 6.1 million (or 75 percent)

Jews and 1.7 million (or 21 percent)

35.7 percent of men and 23.2 percent

of women in 2000.

There was a 0.3 percent increase in

Arabs. There are some 347,000 (4.3

births in 2013 as compared to 2012,

percent) others, primarily Russian-

with 171,444 children being born,

speaking family members of Jews from

74 percent to Jewish mothers and 23

the former Soviet Union, according to

percent to Arab mothers, with the av-

the Globes business daily.

erage woman giving birth at age 27.5.

In comparison to other Western

In 2013, 11 percent of all the

countries, Israel's population is rela-

families in the country (120,000) were

tively young, with children younger

one-parent families with at least one

than 14 representing 28.2 percent

child younger than 18.

of the population in 2013. However,

Forty percent of Israel's population,

the percentage of those aged 65 and

and about half of the Jewish popula-

older continued to rise, reaching 10.6

tion, lives in the central region, while

percent.

almost 60 percent of the Arab popula-

The median age of Israelis was 29.6,

compared to 27.6 in 2000, with the

median age for men reaching 28.6 and

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for women 30.7.

People are continuing to marry later,

tion lives in the north of the country.

Life expectancy in Israel continued

to grow, now standing at 80.3 years for

men and 83.9 for women. Life expec-

tancy has risen by 9.1 years for men

with 63.3 percent of Jewish men and

and 9.2 years for women since the

45.8 percent of Jewish women aged

1970s, with the life expectancy being

25-29 being unmarried, compared to

higher for Jews than Arabs.

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