Seventy years after the Holocaust, the global Jewish population has returned to the level it was at before the Second World War, after a surge in numbers in the past decade.
The Jewish People Policy Institute said in its annual survey that there were about 16.6 million Jews around the world, a figure not seen since the 1930s and the Nazis’ attempts to exterminate them.
“There is a certain symbolic value in that the Jewish people have reattained the number that they had before the awful destruction,” Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said after his cabinet reviewed the report. “[It] stems first and foremost from the increase here in the state of Israel.”
The Nazis killed six million Jews between 1941 and 1945, wiping