At the start of 2026, there were 111,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel, according to figures released Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of the annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day later this week.

All survivors are at least 80 years old, and 28 percent are over 90, the CBS said, based on data from the Holocaust Survivors’ Authority, a government agency that sits under the Prime Minister’s Office.

In January 2025, the authority said there were 123,000 survivors living in Israel.

Of current survivors, 63% are women. Nearly half of survivors (49.3%) are widowed. In Israel, there are 9,300 couples in which both are Holocaust survivors.

The figures include those who suffered during the 1941 pogroms in Iraq, and Jews who suffered during the war in the Nazi-occupied or -aligned countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.

Around 60% of Holocaust survivors living in Israel were born in Europe, with the largest group being from the former Soviet Union, who make up 36%. Most of them, 84%, arrived in the country during the 1990s. Another 37% are from Asia or Africa, with Moroccans making up 16.9% of that group, and Iraqis 10.9%.

Just 6% of Holocaust survivors had arrived in British-mandate Palestine during the........

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