Arnon Soffer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Arnon Soffer

geographer

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1935

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Profession: geographer

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Arnon Soffer

  • Arnon Soffer (born 24 December 1935) is an Israeli geographer and a professor of Geography and environmental sciences, specialising in water issues and demography.
  • Soffer is one of the founders of the University of Haifa.
  • He is known for his research into demographic, water, environmental, political, and strategy issues of the state of Israel. Soffer has been vocal about the very existence of Palestinians as posing a "demographic threat" in that they may not be a minority population and thus they are a threat by the ability to vote.
  • His alleged obsession with the demographic threat posed by Arabs led to some of his colleagues at the University of Haifa nicknaming him "Arnon the Arab-counter", a joking reference to the fact that the Hebrew surname Soffer literally means "one who counts".
  • As such he has been credited with working to implement the "separation policy" of Israel.
  • This has been labeled by some as modeling an apartheid protocol.

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