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This week in Jerusalem: Youthful city

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

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Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem
Youthful city

Has the municipality’s investment in the city’s cultural life paid off? Young people and families from the non-haredi sector are remaining in or returning to live in Jerusalem, according to the municipality’s Midgam institute for logistics and planning. The institute found in the past five years there has been a 35 percent increase in the number of young people in the secular and national-religious community, and while there is still negative migration overall, it is decreasing. In the city center, the percentage of residents aged 20 to 34 has grown from 35% to 50%.

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