 Hi friends and subscribers welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosal and this YouTube channel covers everything related to Israel and Jerusalem. Recently I uploaded a few videos talking about the demographics of Israel. As I explained Israel is quite a densely populated country with 16 cities with 100,000 residents or more packed into a tiny sliver of the Mediterranean coast that's only about a quarter the size of Ireland. The central tenant upon which the state of Israel was founded in 1948 was that of political Zionism. Zionism advocates for the idea that the Jews should have a state of their own in the same piece of world where Judaism is indigenous to and from which it emerged before the Jews were expelled in the 8th to 6th centuries BCE. As I explained in a recent video despite Israel having recently celebrated its 75th birthday the majority of Jews in the world actually do not live in Israel although the numbers are now getting close to being a 50-50 split. The Jewish agency estimated last September that there were 15.3 million Jews living in the world. The Jewish population in Israel is just a little over 7 million. This means that there are about 8.3 million Jews living in other countries besides Israel. The US really eclipses all other countries in terms of its Jewish diaspora population with about 5.7 million Jews. That leaves only an additional 2.6 million Jews spread across different countries including places like France, Turkey, the UK, Canada and elsewhere. But what would the situation be if every Jew on the planet were to answer the call of Zionism tomorrow and get on a flight to Israel? This is a theoretical scenario that had always interested me. Is a country even big enough to handle that many people? If all Jews move to Israel tomorrow then the population of the country would expand from its current population which on the eve of 2023 was estimated to be 9.65 million residents which of course also includes a large Israeli Arab population as well as other minorities. We need to accommodate 8.3 million Jews from the diaspora. Adding these two figures together would yield a population of 17.95 million. For the purpose of simplicity let's round that up to 18 million. Remember of course that we're also not only looking at whether this population would be feasible now. This says nothing about what effect natural growth would have on the ability of the country to contain this population. To calculate what the population density would be in this scenario we need to divide that population figure by the land area of Israel which is 22,145 square kilometers. Note that this figure includes the West Bank or Judean Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. If Israel were to concede any of these territories the land area would be smaller and the population density would therefore be higher. But let's take this figure. Dividing the population by the land area would yield a population density of 848.9 inhabitants per square kilometer which is roughly double Israel's current population density of about 400 persons per square kilometer. Is there any precedent for that? There definitely is if we consider the likes of city states. Macau for existence has more than half a million people squished into a land area of only 33 square kilometers. This yields a mind-boggling population density of almost 21,000 residents per square kilometer, the highest in the world by quite a stretch. Singapore is not quite as extreme at around 7,600 residents per square kilometer and Hong Kong is at around 6,800. The first country I could find on the population density list that's more of a classical country unless of a city state is Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a population of about 169 million but its size is only 148,000 square kilometers. This gives it a population density of just over 1,100 residents per square kilometer. Malta also has a surprisingly high density of 1,667 residents per square kilometer. So here's the summary. If all Jews were to move to Israel tomorrow the country's population would mushroom overnight to about 18 million residents. Israel would need to absorb and find room for an additional 8 million people. This may require exploring long-tited approaches such as building new cities in the largely undeveloped parts of the country like the Negev and Judean deserts or converting relatively small cities like Jerusalem which only has about 1 million residents into veritable mega cities. If all this were to happen Israel would have a population density of about 800 residents per square kilometer. That would be among the highest on the planet although there is present day precedent for territories which hold far more citizens than that. I hope this video has been interesting perhaps thought-provoking. If you have thoughts I'd love to hear them in the comments. Until next time.