TIL that the population of Israel is less than 10 million (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 days ago by tomiant@piefed.social to c/til@lemmy.ca

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This absolutely blew me away. Is this common knowledge? I thought they were wayyy more densely populated. 20% of those are Arabs, by the way, so the Jewish population is less than 8 million. O_O

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

Israel is approximately the size and population of New Jersey.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

Better give them a few hundred billion dollars and state of the art war machines then.

[-] teft@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

Lets not arm NJ. Nobody wants a nuclear jersey shore.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Nuclear or nuked? Because in at least one case I beg to differ.

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