Jewish birth boom?
Are Israel’s projected demographics changing?
And the Israeli Jewish baby boom doesn’t seem to be confined to the religious, either.
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Are Israel’s projected demographics changing?
And the Israeli Jewish baby boom doesn’t seem to be confined to the religious, either.
Don’t start celebrating. An Arab birthrate like could still pose problems down the road. Nice to see though considering the demographics of diaspora Jews are pretty bleak.
Considering that two generations ago an Arab woman was expected to produce around 10+ children and the average family in Gaza had 11 children a drop in the Arab birthrate could have more than one meaning.
That is good news. Having babies is a sign of hope. As Marc Steyn has pointed out, Europe as we know it is heading for extinction. That is particularly true of Russia.
Could all the hate, paranoia and bigotry of the Palestinians be actually depressive or are the Jews rallying because of it?
“And the Israeli Jewish baby boom doesn’t seem to be confined to the religious, either.”
That’s true, but one must keep in mind not everyone listed as “secular” among Israeli Jews is secular as Americans use that term. A great portion of Israeli Jewish “secular” people are actually what we call “masorti” meaning “traditional,” Jews who don’t go the whole unkosher animal in religious observance but are still quite beholden to Jewish values, which includes not eating unkosher animals, observing the Sabbath and having a large family.
And Israel, like America, is punctuated by frequent religious revivals. That too affects the big picture.
Bob from Virginia,
“Don’t start celebrating. An Arab birthrate like could still pose problems down the road.”
Yes, it could. Hopefully, however, the future will also see a true Jewish government in Israel take care of the issue by carrying the Torah’s commandment of expelling the entire enemy population from the Land of Israel (Numbers 33:50—53).
Unlikely that Pali birthrates will rise.
Pali birth rates rose when the “brutal Israeli occupation” supplied them with electricity, running water, and 1st-world healthcare. The 40 years of Israeli “occupation” were so AWFUL that they drew around 20,000 Jordanian wetbacks per year into the West Bank.
Now the Palis have won autonomy – which means they are back in a corrupt, violent kleptocracy with minimal social or health services – just like all Israel’s neighbors. So birth and survival rates have fallen to match the rest of the Arab world.
But hey – at least they’re no longer under brutal colonial exploitation…
This really surprised me because I was under the “old” beliefs that the Arabs in Israel were those having all the babies with a more or less intent of eventually outnumbering Jews.
Ziontruth, your quote from Numbers sounds more like wishful thinking. It might be bibilical prophecy but I don’t think it is realistic in today’s world. We’re still hoping the U.N. doesn’t accede to Palestinians’ claims on Jerusalem and reward their terrorist leadership a sovereign state with half of Jerusalem as it’s capitol as they demand at present.
(We can be relatively sure that a good many U.N. members would would vote to do so, unfortunately, and with our present U.S. administration, it’s pretty clear Obama would be happy to oblige any action which would compromise Israel, it’s security and right to exist.