CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Israel booms with babies as developed world’s birthrates plummet. Here’s why.
by Dina Kraft
December 14, 2018

…The importance of having children is a focus in Israel as it is in most parts of the world, but what makes the attitude distinctive in the country’s Jewish sector is a unique combination of societal messages and policies. Foremost is a lingering post-Holocaust imperative to replace the 6 million who were murdered, but the list also includes fears of Arab demographic dominance and of the next impending war, and economic incentives from the government that include bankrolling fertility treatments, even in-vitro fertilization. READ MORE