States and a private organization, called Jewish National Fund, erected a monument in the Bulgarian Forest in Israel honouring Tsar Boris. However, in July 2003, a public committee headed by Chief Justice Moshe Bejski decided to remove the memorial because Tsar Boris had consented to the deportation of the Jews from occupied territories of Macedonia, Thrace and Pirot to the Germans. After World War II and diaspora After the war, most of the Jewish population left for Israel, leaving only about a thousand Jews living in Bulgaria today (1,162 according to the 2011 census). According to Israeli government statistics, 43,961 people from Bulgaria emigrated to Israel between 1948 and 2006, making Bulgarian Jews the fourth largest group to come from a European country, after the Soviet Union, Romania and Poland. The various migrations outside of Bulgaria has produced descendants of Bulgarian Jews mainly in Israel, but also in the United States, Canada, Australia, and some Western European and Latin American countries. Historical Jewish population Info from the Bulgarian censuses, with the exception of 2010: Notable Bulgarian Jews Albert Aftalion (1874–1956), economist, from Ruse Mira Aroyo (born 1977), musician and member of Ladytron, from Sofia (born 1954 in Pleven), professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia Maksim Behar (born 1955), businessman and public relations professional, from Shumen Avram Benaroya (1887–1979), left-wing political activist Israel Calmi (1885–1966), member of the Jewish Consistory of Bulgaria Elias Canetti (1905–1994), Nobel Prize-winning writer, from Ruse Solomon Abraham Rosanes (1862–1938), historian, major contributor on the history of the Jews in the Balkans, from Ruschuk (Ruse) Tobiah ben Eliezer (11th century), talmudist and poet, from Kostur Itzhak Fintzi (born 1933), actor, from Sofia Samuel Finzi (born 1966), actor, from Plovdiv Solomon Goldstein (1884–1968–1969), communist politician, from Shumen Moshe Gueron (born 1926), cardiologist and researcher, from Sofia Joseph Karo (1488–1575), author of Shulchan Aruch, raised in Nikopol Nikolay Kaufman (1925–2018), musicologist and composer, from Ruse Milcho Leviev (born 1937), composer and musician, from Plovdiv Yehuda Levi (born 1979), Israeli actor and male model Jacob L. Moreno (1889–1974), founder of psychodrama, father from Pleven Judah Leon ben Moses Mosconi (1328–?), talmudist born at Ohrid Eliezer Papo (1785–1828) writer on religious subjects, born in Sarajevo, became rabbi in Silistra Jules Pascin (1885–1930), modernist painter, from Vidin Isaac Passy (1928–2010), philosopher, from Plovdiv Solomon Passy (born 1956), politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, from Plovdiv Valeri Petrov (1920–2014), writer, from Sofia