Latest / Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
Israel has high birth rates, right? And that's great, right? Think again!
Israel has long taken great pride in its having the highest birth rate—even among secular Jewish women—of any country in the OECD. We take great pride that this country of some 9,000,000 people started out with 600,000 Jews in 1948.
As great as this achievement has been—and it has been truly extraordinary, like everything in life, “it’s complicated.” There are concerns about the long-term sustainability of this upward trend and the impact it will have on the country's resources, infrastructure, and economy. We’ll hear more about that today.
We’ll also hear about an array of other issues: what…
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