While you may be tempted to point a finger at religious Jews or Muslims for Israel’s high fertility rate, that doesn’t tell the whole story
. And they only account for around 13 per cent of the population. Meanwhile, the Arab fertility rate has dropped to three, from an incredibly high 9.3 in 1960.Article content
. I have lots of friends in Canada who say they want to remain child-free by choice or be “one and done,” but those concepts haven’t yet entered into Israeli discourse. Why both moderately religious and non-religious couples are choosing to procreate so often is a mystery to most demographers, as it is in opposition to trends in Europe, North America and Asia.
And Israel puts its money where its pronatalist mouth is — it’s the only country to fully subsidize unlimited in vitro fertilization treatments for all women until they are 45 or have two children. The policy receives little criticism, despite the expense.Holocaust generational trauma is also part of the story. The global population of Jews
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