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Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) is a state organization for the creation and maintenance of numeric data related to populations vis-à-vis the ethnic makeup of Israel and its cities. It was founded in 1948. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The bureau is funded by the Israeli government, although about 30% of its revenue comes from private organizations requesting statistics not otherwise issued by the CBS.
Ideologically, aliyah was one of the central constituents of the Zionist goal of ingathering of the exiles.
According to the CentralBureau of Statistics, at the end of 1986 about 51,200 Jews resided in the the West Bank occupied territories (called Judea and Samaria by Jewish Israelis), and an additional 2,100 resided in the Gaza Strip (these figures represented 1.4 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, of the 1986 Jewish population of Israel).
The CentralBureau of Statistics estimated the 1986 Arab population of the West Bank to be 836,000, and that of Gaza to be 545,000, for a total population of close to 1.4 million.
IsraelCentralBureau of Statistics (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) is a state organization for the creation and maintenance of numeric data related to populations vis-à-vis the ethnic makeup of Israel and its cities.
The bureau is funded by the Israeli government, although about 30% of its revenue comes from private organizations requesting statistics not otherwise issued by the CBS.
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