Israel demographics

Israeli demography: Declining fertility, migration, and mortality

Although the increase in Israel’s population is on a downward trend, in 2022, it was still high relative to other high-income countries.

A young mother with a cigarette and a baby stroller
 CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE Day, on Wednesday, with the traditional barbecue: We should offer thanks for a fledgling state that, in just three-quarters of a century, made possible what seemed impossible.

Stepping back with pride on Israel’s 75th - opinion

This minimarket in Tel Aviv could be affected if a Knesset bill aimed at shutting down small businesses on Shabbat becomes law

Most want minimarkets, public transport on Shabbat, poll finds

 2005. Militants contre le désengagement  de Gaza

Gueule de bois messianique


Looking beyond Rabin Square

Activist Noam Shuster-Eliassi believes the Israeli ‘peace camp’ is too Ashkenazi and secular, and thinks the only way to end the Arab-Israeli conflict is to engage the wider public.

Left-wing protesters at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, 2015

Study: 'Israel's economic growth unsustainable, poverty rate highest in OECD'

Taub Center cites government’s failure to reduce poverty through taxes and welfare system.

A PASSERBY stops to console a poor woman in Jerusalem in 2015.

Racism at the top? The real scandal and motive behind the scandal of President Katzav

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Israeli President Rivlin: Democracy is not to be taken for granted

“Israel is changing before our eyes,” he said. “There is no clear majority and there is no clear minority.”

Rivlin and Plesner

Israeli demographics present economic challenges, study finds

Israel's life expectancy, it noted, is higher than the OECD average. Without increses in the retirement age, the report argued, people will be spending in retirement will increase 1.5 times by 2055.

Dozens of rabbis, yeshiva deans, and leaders from the haredi community, including Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages, travelled to Radun and prayed first at the building which formerly housed the yeshiva of the Hafetz Haim, and then by his gravesite itself.

Fight using aliya, not concessions, says Hotovely

The deputy foreign minister says “Israel has to return to its vision of ingathering of the exiles."

New immigrants from Ukraine make aliya, December 30, 2014

New Water Resources and Development Potential in Israel’s South

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Some 38% of families in Tel Aviv don’t have children, report reveals

Some 1.91 million families living in Israel, 300,000 in Arab sector.

THE TEL AVIV skyline