COINCIDENTAL?: Interesting Facts About Haifa חֲזִיר

 Wild Boars on the Streets of Haifa

Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of 282,832 in 2021. 

Ethnic Breakdown: Ethnic: Jews: 642,700 (69.4%) Arabs: 233,000 (25.1%) Others: 51,000 (5.5%)

While Arabs constitute 11% of Haifa's total population, they make up 70% of Lower Haifa's residents.

Today, Haifa has a population of about 266,300 people. Approximately 90% of the population consists of Israeli-Jews, predominantly those without religious classification and mostly immigrants from the former Soviet Union from mixed-marriage families of Jewish origin.

The current metro area population of Haifa in 2023 is 1,174,000, a 0.86% increase from 2022. The metro area population of Haifa in 2022 was 1,164,000, a 0.78% increase from 2021. The metro area population of Haifa in 2021 was 1,155,000, a 0.7% increase from 2020.

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/politics/wild-boars-may-decide-the-vote-for-mayor-of-haifa/2023/07/17/

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According to Central Bureau of Statistics estimates: On 31 December, 2022, Israel's population is estimated at 9,656,000 residents. 7,106,000 are Jews (73.6% of the total population), 2,037,000 - Arabs (21.1%) and 513,000 Others (5.3%).

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COINCIDENTAL:  In posting the article about the Wild Boars i.e. Hazer (or חֲזִיר), a little search on library.alhatorah.org produced this:

1. English יחזקאל מ״ז:ט״ז (מקראות גדולות)

Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

2. רש״י יחזקאל מ״ז:ט״ז (מקראות גדולות)

Hazer-hatticon Jonathan renders:

3. רש״י יחזקאל מ״ז:י״ז (מקראות גדולות)

And the border shall be from the sea to Hazer-enon The northern border shall be from the sea until Hazer-enon. the border of Damascus [i.e.,] which is on the border of Damascus, i.e., Hazer-enon is on the northeastern corner, as is explicated in the [description of] the boundaries which Moses, our master, may he rest in peace, wrote...f.): "and its ends shall be Hazer -as your eastern border [the territory] from Hazer-enan, etc." The border of Damascus is in the northeastern corner beside Hazer-enan, as is stated above: "Hazer-enan" and "the border of Damascus." The border of Hamath is at the northwestern corner, as is stated (ibid.

4. רש״י יחזקאל מ״ז:י״ח (מקראות גדולות)

is the Jordan; from the border by the eastern sea shall you measure The Jordan is its eastern border from the boundary of the northern corner – that is the Hazer-enan delineated above, until the eastern sea, the Dead Sea, which is in the south-eastern corner.

5. רש״י יחזקאל מ״ח:א׳ (מקראות גדולות)

From the northern end Dan will receive the northern border from Hazer-enan, which is at the eastern corner, until the border of Damascus (in the northwestern corner).