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Israeli Agriculture in Bat Ayin in Gush Etzion

Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel expects to see a 50% increase in the number of Jews living in Judea and Samaria by 2019, according to a Reuters report.

Currently there are approximately 400,000 Jewish citizens in Judea and Samaria, and Ariel expects it to rise to around 600,000 by 2019, Insh’allah.

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In addition, Ariel estimates that some 300,000-350,000 Jews living in neighborhoods in the eastern half of (united) Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is home to around a million people.

Its not a well-known fact, but the majority of Jerusalem’s residents have been Jewish since the year 1844, and possibly even earlier.

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