The eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day 1976: The Holocaust Survivors' Rights Authority published data today (Sunday) according to which at the beginning of 2026, approximately 111,000 Holocaust survivors and those who were recognized as victims of anti-Semitic harassment during the war lived in Israel.
The data shows that the number of Jews in the world at the beginning of 2025 was approximately 15.8 million people. This is a lower figure than the number of Jews living in the world in 1939, on the eve of World War II, when the Jewish people numbered 16.6 million people.
However, the center of gravity of the Jewish people has changed dramatically: if in 1939 only about 31% of the world's Jews (449 thousand people) lived in the Land of Israel, today about 7.2 million Jews live in Israel, which constitutes about 451% of all Jews in the world.
The United States remains the second largest Jewish concentration with 6.3 million Jews (about 401,000).
All Holocaust survivors alive today are over 80 years old, with approximately 28% of them already over the age of 90. 63% of Holocaust survivors are women and 37% are men.
Almost half of Holocaust survivors (49.3%) are widowers or widowers.
There are currently approximately 9,300 couples living in Israel in which both partners are Holocaust survivors.
The data includes not only the survivors of the camps and ghettos, but also the Iraqi immigrants who experienced the events of the "Farhud" in 1941, as well as the Jews of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia who suffered from restrictions and persecution under the Vichy regime and the Nazis.
Approximately 60% of Holocaust survivors living in Israel are natives of Europe, with the largest group being natives of the former Soviet Union (approximately 36%). Approximately 37% are natives of Asia and Africa, including a large group of natives of Morocco (16.9%) and Iraq (10.9%).
While most Holocaust survivors from Germany and Austria immigrated to Israel before the establishment of the state, most Holocaust survivors from the former Soviet Union (approximately 841,000) immigrated in the great wave of the 1990s.
Holocaust survivors living in Israel are spread throughout the country, with approximately 951,000 living in urban areas. The city with the highest number of Holocaust survivors is Haifa (approximately 7,500 people), followed by Jerusalem (7,100 people), Tel Aviv-Yafo (6,000 people), Ashdod (5,500 people) and Netanya (5,400 people).
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