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Jerusalem News 823
14 December 2008 18 Kislev 5769
Contents:
1.   2.16 Million Muslims in Israel, Growth Rate Slowing
2. Syria Still Working on the Bomb
3.
IDF Preparing for a Bloody 2009 with Paintball Training

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1.        2.16 Million Muslims in Israel, Growth Rate Slowing
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128757
by Maayana Miskin

(IsraelNN.com) The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published statistics relating to Israel's Muslim community on Monday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Adha. There were 2.16 Muslims living in Israel at the end of 2007, the CBS found, and the community's growth rate is steadily declining.

The Muslim community grew by 33,000 in 2007. The growth rate in 2007 was 2.8 percent - a significant decrease from previous growth rates of 3.8 in 2000 and 3.0 in 2005. The growth rate remains higher than that of any other community in Israel, however.

The plurality of Israel's Muslim population resides in the northern part of the country. Fourteen percent live in Haifa, and 38.5 percent live elsewhere in the north.

More than 20 percent of Israeli Muslims live in Jerusalem, where they constitute one-third of the population. Eleven percent live elsewhere in the central district, and 14 percent live in the Negev.

The city with the highest Islamic population is Jerusalem, with an estimated 248,000 Muslims. In second and third place were Nazareth and Um el-Fahmm, with 45,000 and 43,000 Muslim residents respectively.

The Muslim population is relatively young. Forty-two percent of Israeli Muslims are age 14 or younger, and only three percent are over the age of 65.

Bureau analysts explained that the Muslim population's youth results from its high fertility rate. Muslim women living in Israel had an average of 3.9 children at the end of 2007. The average number of children per Muslim family has dropped dramatically in recent years, from over 4.7 in 2000 to its current position at less than four.

The Muslim fertility rate is much higher than that of non-Muslim communities in Israel. The rate is 2.8 in Jewish communities, 2.5 in Druze communities, and 2.1 among Christians.

The Israeli Muslim fertility rate is also higher than that in neighboring majority-Muslim countries: Jordan and Syria each have a 3.2 rate, Egypt's is 3.0, and in Lebanon it is 2.2.

Jewish Growth Up
Statistics regarding Israel's Jewish community were released earlier in the year prior to the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana. The census showed that Jewish women had an average of 2.8 children in 2007, up from 2.75 the year before. While Jewish fertility rates continued to climb, the number of Jewish adults remaining single in their 20s grew as well, analysts found.



2. Syria Still Working on the Bomb
From:
The DEBKA Review
Summary of DEBKAfile Exclusives in Week Ending Dec. 11, 2008
http://www.debka.com/index.php
Marine spies find Syria has returned to plutonium production
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

5 Dec.: Western agents recently carried out a daring covert operation to collect water samples from the Orontes River where it drains into the Mediterranean. Their discoveries were presented to a closed session of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency's board on Nov. 27-28.

Situated on the river bank near Homs is one of the three research institutes where Syrian, Iranian and North Korean technicians and scientists are suspected of reprocessing plutonium for Syria's clandestine military nuclear program. The Orentes samples confirmed the suspicion that Syria has gone back to the plutonium project which was cut short when Israeli destroyed its reactor at Al Kibar in September 2007.

Western nuclear technicians collected them from a boat which sailed surreptitiously up to the river mouth and collected water samples on three different dates in the last two months.

Syria and North Korea renewed their clandestine nuclear cooperation accord on Oct. 22, so making sure of an uninterrupted flow from Pyongyang of nuclear materials, technology and experts for Syria's covert nuclear facilities.



3. IDF Preparing for a Bloody 2009 with Paintball Training
by Gil Ronen
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128835






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