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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Fertility rate

A woman pushes a stroller as she walks past a placard indicating the location where a new cultural complex will be built, in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, May 1, 2019. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)
June 21, 2024, 8:47 am
Israel’s birth rate remains highest in OECD by far, at 2.9 children per woman
Israel is forum’s only member state reproducing above replacement rate; report cites high Haredi rate, but even among secular population it is higher than in any other OECD country
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a newborn baby girl holding her mother's finger, Jerusalem, December 30, 2020. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
January 22, 2024, 7:21 am
Israeli population growth slowing as fertility rates continue to fall – report
Group comprising mainly immigrants from ex-Soviet Union whom Israel does not regard as Jews have highest employment rate, contributed nearly 20% to population growth last year
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Newborn babies at the English Mission Hospital, in Nazareth, October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
February 21, 2022, 6:06 pm
Israel’s birthrate trended downward in 2020, statistics bureau says
Despite dip, Jewish state still among most fertile in OECD; in first, Jewish women surpass Arab counterparts in fertility
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Iranians shop in the capital Tehran's grand bazar on November 3, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
December 2, 2018, 6:56 pm
Iran arrests population expert accused of spy links
State media says fertility researcher Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi faces espionage charges for aiding foreign ‘cultural and social invasion’
By AFP
A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
August 10, 2018, 5:11 pm
Israeli hospitals witness record-breaking baby boom
With maternity wards at full capacity, some mothers are delivering in hallways; Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba breaks record with 1,518 deliveries in July
By JTA
Chaim I. Waxman
July 23, 2018, 2:12 pm
Chaim I. Waxman
The fertility of American Jewry
Jews worrying about demographics was around before Steven M. Cohen and his research, and it will be around after him too
Illustrative: A maternity ward in an Israeli hospital. (Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 4:44 pm
Israel’s fertility rate is far higher than rest of OECD
Statistics bureau also says that in 2016, Jewish and Arab women on average had almost the same number of children
By Michael Bachner
Female egg-freezing, illustrative (YouTube screenshot)
July 5, 2017, 9:01 am
Study: Education gaps leaving women partner-less
Israeli and US anthropologists interview educated women freezing their eggs, say many have been unable to find eligible fathers
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Newborn babies in a Jerusalem hospital. (Flash90)
November 15, 2016, 7:53 pm
Jewish, Arab fertility rates in Israel on par for first time
Arab rate drops, Jewish rate rises, and women in both groups now give birth to an average of 3.13 children, highest in OECD
By ToI Staff
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