Following the Second World War, most of the world’s remaining Jews, about four million, sought shelter in the United States.

When the State of Israel was founded, only about 650,000 Jews lived in the Holy Land. This number has steadily increased. Meanwhile, the number of Jews in the United States has stagnated at 6 million, and has even shown signs of decline in recent years thanks to low birth rates and a growing number of mixed...

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