Ha’aretz‘s AngloFile Errs on Israel’s Christians
Ha’aretz‘s AngloFile erred on Israel’s Christians Friday:
The official status of the [Christian] institution — according to Raed Mualem, the institution’s vice president — will help Israel retain more Christians, whose presence here has drastically fallen over the past decades. (Emphasis added.)
In fact, the opposite is true — the Christian population in Israel has drastically grown — not fallen — over the past decades. According to the Statistical Abstract of Israel 2008 published by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (Chart 2.2), there were 34,000 Christians in Israel in 1949; 48,300 in 1959; 73,500 in 1969; 87,600 in 1979; 107,000 in 1989; 131,800 in 1999; and 151,600 in 2007 (most recent available figure.) Thus, Israel’s Christian population has grown by 345 percent since 1949.
Stay tuned for an update — will Ha’aretz wisely set the record straight or once again stubbornly adhere to its quasi-policy not to correct straight-forward factual errors?
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