Israel's population is booming!
🇮🇱 Just topped 10 million people
🇮🇱 That's x12 growth since independence in 1948
🇮🇱 77.6% Jewish, 20.9% Arab/Druze
🇮🇱 174,000 babies born in the last year
🇮🇱 28,000 new immigrants (during a war!)
🇮🇱 27% population under 18
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/04/opinion/trump-5000-baby-bonus/
“secret to Israel’s fertility rates appears to be cultural…The family is at the absolute center…Getting married and having kids is the highest cultural value..a conviction that having children is the best and highest means of imbuing life with meaning"
Israel is the only advanced country with a healthy fertility rate.
They allow abortion, give free abortion pills, free IVF for the first two children, and implement genetic screening programs.
Meanwhile, countries with more “trad” policies like Italy and Poland are dying.