May 22, 2013 | 11:54 am

The Jewish Community Has Spoken

Posted by Pini Herman

Mayor and City Attorney Elects

Despite the valiant efforts of Emily’s List to support Wendy Greuel, Los Angeles seems to have  passed on electing its first woman mayor.  No woman was elected to any LA city office this election cycle.  Many women, who are the majority of voters in the city of LA seem to have decided not to exercise their enfranchisement, or voted for the male candidate.

LA’s traditionally high rate of Jewish voter participation includes the city’s Jewish women who may have felt a greater loyalty to ethnicity than  to gender.  This election seems to have voted in three Jewish ancestry candidates, Eric Garcetti as mayor, Mike Feuer as city attorney and Ron Galperin as city controller who happens to be a rebbetznik, married to Rabbi Zach Shapiro.  The Jewish vote was definitely consequential to voting in all three.

Ron Galperin, Controller Elect (on left) 

While demographically Jews constitute an ever smaller percentage of the electorate, the high rate of voter participation still gives the Jewish community inordinate power on election day.  When other potential blocs of voters, such as women interested in electing women, stay at home, the Jewish vote has always proven to be decisive.

In 1996, the effective Jewish vote size in the city Los Angeles was approximately 350,000, where 93 percent of registered Jewish voters had reported voting in the last four years, 22 percent had voted in 2 or 3 elections in the past four years and 27 percent reported voting in four or more elections in the past four years.  There were probably over 150,000 Jewish voters in this LA city election cycle.  The LA City Clerk estimates only a 19 percent of the 1.8 million registered voters in the City of LA of which an estimated 344,000 actually voted.

Jewish voters were probably half the total voters casting their ballots in this city election. The current mayor, city attorney and city controller elects were initially considered the underdogs to their non-Jewish rivals in this runoff election, but the voting patterns graphically represent that historically Jewish voting precincts won this election for Eric Garcetti and likely for Mike Feuer and Ron Galperin.

The following primary and runoff returns graphically illustrate that some of the precinct with known Jewish concentrations, especially in the west San Fernando valley switched to Garcetti in the runoff after supporting Greuel in the primary election.

                                           Source: LA City Clerk   Mapping: Los Angeles Times

Contrary to headlines, Eric Garcetti is not the first person of Jewish ancestry to serve as mayor of Los Angeles.  JJ Goldberg points out that Garcetti is probably the third Jewish mayor of LA.

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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May 20, 2013 | 1:23 pm

Hospital Prices No Longer Secret Locally

Posted by Pini Herman

Friday's LA Times above the fold story reads: "Cedars stands out for steep pricing."  

With great fanfare the Obama Administration unveiled last week it’s latest effort to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs by making available hospital cost data on the web.  The information is a bit unwieldy to access, as it currently comes with every hospital in the country that receives Medicare payments. For the first time hospital price disparities have been made public.

It is hoped that the healthcare consumer will use this information to comparison shop and that this readily available information will cause hospital to be less arbitrary in their pricing.

Looking at the ten most common diagnosis that are treated at the flagship local hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and those same diagnostic categories at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in the context of all California hospitals there is already a significant cost divergence.  UCLA is more expensive than 64 percent of all California hospitals in the ten examined diagnostic
categories and Cedars-Sinai is more expensive than 92 percent of all California hospitals.

For example, the most common discharge at Cedars-Sinai in 2011 was the diagnostic category “major replacement or reattachment of lower extremity...” e.g. a hip replacement for which Cedars-Sinai charged on average $110,123 or more expensive than 78 percent of California hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA charged on the average $87,2011 for the same hospitalization or more expensive than 57 percent of all California hospitals.  Cedars-Sinai did 728 of these discharges in 2011, while Ronald Reagan UCLA only performed 15, meaning that Cedars-Sinai did averaged two-a-day, while Ronald Reagan UCLA did perhaps, one-a-month.  It might be worth the extra 26 percent price premium to buy the obviously greater experience with this diagnosis at Cedars-Sinai.  Looking at this diagnosis locally, St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica discharged 922 patients in 2011 with this diagnosis with an average cost of $50,614, or at less than half of Cedars-Sinai’s cost and just a short commute away.

One must consider the volume of experience as well as the cost of each hospital in addition to a myriad of other factors. But since yesterday, this is the first time this price data is available to the consumer. Until the first easy to use apps arrive, it’s possible to download this California extract to do some local and regional hospital comparison shopping.

Data, just for California hospitals, courtesy of this blogger has been put into a downloadable spreadsheet format to enable a first peek at what is available:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmzDtDbKB9YGdDNkWFpnRFM1MmRFRGNMQU9pNTdYTXc&usp=sharing

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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May 16, 2013 | 11:13 am

The Life of a Jewish Communal Professional and LA Jewish Population Change

Posted by Pini Herman

Charles Mesnick was instrumental in the development of the Los Angeles Jewish community. He was among the newly trained social work professionals whose voice and training demanded accurate demographic information and directly resulted in Los Angeles’ Jewish Community Council undertaking in 1952 the first major local Jewish Population study in the United States by Fred Massarik which incorporated random sampled telephone surveys.

The Jewish Centers Association of Los Angeles was for a sixty year period, from the World War II era to 2001 the largest single provider of direct services to the Jewish community of Los Angeles as well as the largest employer of unionized employees in Jewish communal service among which Charles Mesnick was central, initially as a worker, then management and then as founder and first president the the Jewish Communal Retirees Association which actively negotiated retirement benefits for it’s members among it’s other rich educational and communal activities.

Charles Mesnick, in early 1943, had his first position with the Soto Michigan Jewish Community Center in Boyle Heights (which was razed without warning six years ago) as the Center Director. From 1946 to 1952, he worked as Assistant Director of JCA

He saw the emerging need for resident camping. In 1949, he encouraged JCA  to acquire the property of what became Camp JCA in the early 1950’s. In 1952, he became the Beverly Fairfax Jewish Community Center Director, located at 8008 Beverly Boulevard. The timing was to tie in with the transition of closing that facility and moving to the new Westside Jewish Community Center which started in March 1954 and is now the last remaining Los Angeles JCC.  Charles Mesnick was its Center Director for ten years he led the Westside Jewish Community Center it served as a model to spur and spark additional facilities and programs throughout Greater Los Angeles.

Charles Mesnick was a major proponent of planning based on demographic research and was confronted with with continued population increases during his career until he retired in 1975 as Executive Director of the Jewish Centers Association of Los Angeles.  His son, Michael, related to me that he retired at age 61, as he had been informed by his physician that he suffered from a heart condition and could not expect to live very much longer.  Charles Mesnick proceeded to enjoy life for another 38 years and passed away last month at age 99.

While Charles Mesnick’s career was blessed with robust Jewish population growth and Jewish communal purpose, he represented a generation of communal builders, followed by a generation of communal maintainers and refiners blessed with a moderated growing Jewish population and Jewish communal purpose. 

The most recent generation of communal leaders wish, imagine and herald a growing Jewish population that may, in actuality, be stagnant or significantly declining and cling to slogans of communal purpose and vitality where the reality may be very different.  It’s clear from the sad decline of the Los Angeles Jewish Centers system, from eleven vital centers and camp to just a single actual multi-activity Jewish center and camp left in the past decade of decline.

The passing of Charles Mesnick does not mean that active planning that was at the core of his philosophy has also passed, but it underscores the need for the community to embrace it again if it wants to deal with problems of rapid population change that Mesnick experienced in his life and that are now upon us again, whether we want to recognize and deal with it or not.

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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May 9, 2013 | 6:53 pm

More Jews in Los Angeles Than in Canada

Posted by Pini Herman

Having partaken of the Jewish hospitality of our Neighbors to the North at a number of life cycle events in Toronto, I like to follow their numbers, but they are amazingly stable, not declining or rising very much.  The Canadians count their Jews. There is no separation of religion and state in Canada and state subsidies to recognized religious institutions are often based on the religion counts gathered by the Canadian census.  Canadian Jewish religious day schools enjoy state subsidies which may partially account for greater availability of Jewish day school education in Canada.

In 2001 Canada counted 329,995 Jews in it's national census and 315,120 in 2006. The recently published 2011 national household survey found 329,500 Jews.  When Canadian Jews reach about a half million, they will have about as many Jews as we may have in Los Angeles.

Not unlike the growth of “none” as a religious self-identifcation in the U.S., nearly one quarter of Canada’s population, 23.9 per cent, had no religious affiliation – up from 16.5 per cent a decade earlier, as recorded in the 2001 census. The question is whether Jews are leaders in this area.  This 49 percent increase in a decade of no religious affiliation might account for the stagnation in the number of Canadian Jews.  A Canadian Jewish population study would go a long way to explaining Canadian Jewish Population Dynamics.

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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May 2, 2013 | 2:03 pm

American Jewish Millennials Are Even A Smaller Jewish Minority

Posted by Pini Herman

Jewish Needles Finding Each Other In a Large Haystack?

Millenials, born roughly between 1983 and 2000, that is approximately ages 14 to 30 are a large group, 41 percent of the US population, often called the baby-boom echo because the are the kids of the baby boomers.

This is an important group because it’s this group that is current going through school and college, pairing up, forming households and having children themselves.  These are the consumers everyone is closely is watching.

Jewish baby boomers married later and had less kids than their non-Jewish counterparts and if Los Angeles is an indicator, using the data captured in 1996 for the Los Angeles Jewish Population Survey, only 23 percent of LA’s Jewish population is estimated to be millennials, currently in 2013.

The Jewish millennial isn’t finding many other Jewish millenials and probably spending most of their time in settings where they are an even smaller minority than their parents within their age cohort experienced as a baby boomer.  The Jewish baby boomer may have been 2 percent of the general baby boom population, while the Jewish Millenial is probably less than 1 percent of the general Millenial segment of the population.

This means that Millennials need to work twice as hard than their baby boomer parents did to find a Jewish partner among the much more numerous non-Jewish Millennial members of the population.  As marriageable Millenial Jews are rarer in the U.S. population, they may become more precious, not only to Jews, but perhaps also to the increasing number of non-Jewish Americans who hold Judaism in high regard.  It would not be surprising that intermarriage among Millennials may increase as the historical phenomenon of some world Jewish communities approaching being “loved to death” may eventually become part of American Jewish history, but probably not within our lifetimes or the lifetimes of Millennials and their children.

American Jewish Millennials may be the first generation who may experience more philo-semitism than anti-semitism in their environment.  Rather than organizing an Anti-Defamation League the Anti-Exaltation League may have to be formed to fight the attraction and
positive attention exhibited toward Millennial Jews.

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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April 29, 2013 | 9:55 am

Jews and the Increasing US Wealth Gap

Posted by Pini Herman

Will Organized Jewish Philanthropic Giving
Emulate "Citizens United" Political Giving? Chart by Sunlight Foundation

Last year the Sunlight Foundation examined data from the Federal Election Commission and the Center for Responsive Politics that looked at the 2008 election cycle data and found a growing dependence of candidates and political parties on what they termed the One Percent of the One Percent, resulting in a political system that could be disproportionately influenced by donors in a handful of wealthy enclaves.  This may be a result of a trend of wealth polarization, which seems to have exacerbated during the first term of the Obama administration.

The Pew Research Center recently released a study showing that the wealthiest 7% of U.S. households increased their net worth during the first two years of the economic “recovery” by over a quarter while the remaining 97% of households “recovered” by losing about a twentieth of their net assets.

As the vast majority of Jews may be among the 97% less wealthy “middle class” with household net worth (value of equity of property, financial assets, etc.) of $836,033 or lower.  It’s safe to say that the bifurcation of the Jewish community reflects the general U.S. society where the wealthy are increasing their wealth (primarily through financial instruments) and the middle class is declining.

What does this mean for the organized Jewish community? Communal institutions are more reliant than ever on major donors and the trend to cater to the sometimes idiosyncratic interests, tastes and orientations of households of greater wealth will continue to increase.  The very wealthy often have significantly different orientations than the majority Jewish community.  This may be one of the explanations for the greater Jewish middle class disaffiliation from the “organized Jewish community” which may be increasingly taking its lead from it’s increasingly wealthy members.

This phenomenon took expression in the last presidential elections, but was rebuffed through the power of the ballot box.  The organized Jewish community lacks a ballot box and perhaps the only vote that counts is measured in cash

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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April 26, 2013 | 12:33 pm

Israelis’ U.S. Visa Waiver, Is it still Viable?

Posted by Pini Herman

Brad Sherman Hopeful That Tel Aviv Visa Lines May Be History

It seems that there may be room for optimism that Israel may join other countries in the U.S. Visa Waiver program.  With all the news that the 844 page  “Gang of Eight” Immigration Bill, S.744 is getting, where is the Israel U.S. Visa Waiver proposal?

Countries use their visa and immigration policies aggressively to further their economic goals through increased tourism, investment and cultural exchange.  The U.S. and Israel are no exception as two countries which have been very much shaped by the forces of migration.

Israelis must line up in Tel Aviv at the US Embassy and be personally interviewed for an entry visa to the U.S.  An Visa Waiver Program for Israel requiring only a valid Israeli passport upon landing in the US to be admitted for up to a ninety day visit would be a momentous change in the burden of travel to the U.S. for Israelis.

Looking at the new Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 and it seems to make the Visa Waiver Country requirement a bit more stringent regarding security.  There was no mention of Israel specifically only of Korea, Ireland and Australia for E3, E4, E5 visa eligibility.  Cong. Howard Berman last bill passed granted Israel E2 Visa eligibilty.  It doesn't seem that anyone on the Senate side felt it necessary to include Israel among the countries receiving attention in the 844 pages of S.744.  Would I be incorrect in writing that the silence is resounding on the part of advocates of Israel?

It's my assessment that Ron Kampeas of the JTA was correct in stating that Visa Waiver Program for Israel met with opposition of Israel and the US supporters who consult with Israel on legislation regarding Israel and that the Boxer S. 462 requiring an amendment which did not find its way into the later introduced S.744 further indicates that S. 462 sole purpose seems to have been to spike the wheels of H.R. 300 from attaining passage.

I contacted Cong. Brad Sherman as to what his assessment as to the viability of his bill in light of that it may have to be reconciled with S.462 and no mention of including Israel as a Visa Waiver Program country within S. 744.  Govtrack.us gives it half (5%) of the normal likelihood (11%) of getting out of committee and only a third (1%) likelihood (3%) of being passed into law. Regarding S. 462, govtrack.us gives it 8% chance of getting past committee as compared to overall 12% of all bill getting out of committe. 2% chance of being enacted, the same as all other Senate bills which get out of committee. 

Overall, it's my assessment that it's not likely that Israelis will have to stop waiting in long lines for US visas at the Tel Aviv Embassy.

I received this Statement from Cong. Brad Sherman:

Statement to Jewish Journal blogger Pini Herman from Congressman Brad Sherman, April 25, 2013

"I believe that the bill introduced by Senator Barbara Boxer, the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act (S. 462), which has 23 Senate cosponsors, has a significant chance of passage.  I also believe the House and Senate stand-alone bills (the bill I introduced with Rep. Ted Poe, H.R.300, and the bill introduced by Senator Wyden and Senator Hatch, S. 266) also have a significant chance of passage.  With 75 Members of the House including some very senior members cosponsoring my bill, I am confident about its prospects.

There is no significance to the fact that Israel is not explicitly included in the comprehensive immigration reform bill.   The immigration bill does reform the Visa Waiver Program, and those reforms apply to all potentially eligible countries, including Israel.

The three bills (S. 462, S. 266, and H.R. 300) in question are virtually identical with regard to Israel:  all exempt Israel from the 3% requirement rate and all add Israel to the Visa Waiver Program when it meets the other requirements of the program.  As I mentioned before on your blog, Hungary, Lithuania, and Latvia had a higher visa refusal rates than Israel when were admitted into the Visa Waiver Program in 2008."

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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April 22, 2013 | 4:00 pm

Israel’s 65th Demographics

Posted by Pini Herman

A long-standing tradition every Israeli Independence Day is a press release by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics which is often bland or upbeat in honor of the holiday.  Israeli had an 8 million total population of which 6 million are Jews and 1.6 million are Arabs and since last Israeli Independence Day the population grew by 138 thousand persons, mostly through births, though there were about twenty thousand Jewish immigrants.  Of the Jewish population 70 percent are native-born Tzabars, of which half are children of of Israeli-born Jews, that is, second generation.

Understandably a government agency shies away from lots of analysis, but recently, prior to President Obama’s trip to Israel, Aaron David Miller interviewed respected Israeli demographer Sergio DellaPergola and asked him to identify the ten most salient current facts about Israel’s demographic reality and what they mean for Israel’s future as a Jewish state:

1.  More than 12 million people currently live in the territory between the Mediterranean shores and the Jordan River, what is known today as Israel and the Palestinian territories. Of these, about 8 million are legal residents of Israel -- a total that includes those who live within its internationally recognized boundaries, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the Jewish population in the West Bank. About 1.6 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, and about 2.3 million live in the West Bank, not including East Jerusalem. Another 300,000 documented or undocumented foreign workers and refugees also live here, mostly from African countries.

2.  Of Israel's legal population of about 8 million, 6 million are Jews, over 300,000 are non-Jewish relatives of Jews who immigrated in the framework of Israel's Law of Return, and 1.7 million are Arabs -- mostly Muslims, with Christian and Druze minorities. Of the Muslim population, about 300,000 live in East Jerusalem. Of Israel's population of 6 million Jews, about 350,000 live in the West Bank.

3.  Jews constitute 49.8 percent of the total population that lives between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River -- 52 percent, if one includes non-Jewish relatives. If one excludes foreign workers and the Gaza population, Jews represent 62 percent of the total; excluding Palestinians in the West Bank, their share rises to about 79 percent; excluding the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, the Jewish share of total population would be 83 percent.

4.  The rate of population growth in the state of Israel is higher than the world's average, estimated at 1.2 percent per year. Among Jews in Israel, it is 1.8 percent -- a figure that includes both immigration and birth rates. Among Arabs in Israel, it is 2.2 percent. In the West Bank and Gaza, the annual population growth is 2.7 percent, including a slightly negative migration balance.

5.  Israel has the highest fertility rate of any developed country in the world -- each woman bears over 3 children on average. Over the last 15 years, Jewish fertility has been slowly increasing -- not just among observant Jews, but also in the highly secular city of Tel Aviv. Fertility among Jewish residents in the West Bank is above 5 children. Among Israel's Muslims, fertility has been stable or slowly declining, and currently stands at 3.5 children.

6.  Immigration to Israel continues, though not at the same pace of the major immigration waves of the past. According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, 16,557 people immigrated to Israel in 2012 -- down from 60,201 in 2000. The fact is, most Jews today live in more developed countries where the propensity for emigration is low.

7.  The absolute number of emigrants from Israel has been quite steady over the last 65 years, even as the population has increased tenfold. The annual frequency of emigration from Israel -- roughly 2 emigrants per 1000 residents -- is lower than average emigration from OECD countries.

8.  Both Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land are growing more religious. According to Dellapergola's surveys, 21 percent of Jews said they are now more religious than they were earlier in life, while 14 percent said they are less religious. Among Muslims, 41 percent said they are more religious, while only 4 percent said they are less religious.

Israelis are also largely satisfied with life and optimistic about the future -- and there is no discernible divide between its Jewish and Arab populations on this point. Eighty-eight percent of Israelis declare they are satisfied -- 89 percent of Jews and 87 percent of Arabs. Among both Jews and Arabs, the more religious are happier than the less religious.

9.  The proportion of Israeli haredim, the most religious and self-segregated component of society, is growing. Today, the haredim constitute slightly above 10 percent of the total Jewish population -- however, they also constitute over 20 percent of Jews under 20 years old. In 2030, the proportion of haredim might surpass 20 percent of Israel's total Jewish population, and over one-third of those under 20.

10.  The share of Jews among the total population in Israel and Palestine is slowly decreasing. This dynamic is largely being driven by population growth in the West Bank and Gaza: Within Israel proper, the current 79 percent share of Jews is expected to diminish by just a few percentage points by 2030. But if one also includes the West Bank and Gaza, the current roughly 50-50 division will change to a 56 percent Palestinian majority in 2030. Withdrawing from the Palestinian territories, then, has a dramatic effect on this demographic balance. Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, for instance, postponed the emergence of a Palestinian majority in Israel-ruled territory by 30 years.

Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography,  Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work,  Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is a past President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih

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