THE ISRAEL BIBLE
Why Israel Still Has Babies (And the Rest of the World Has Stopped)
Rabbi Elie Mischel
March 22, 2026

For decades, the most powerful argument against Israel’s future was demographic. The claim went like this: between the Israeli Arabs who are full citizens of the state and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria living under Israeli military administration, the Arab population in Israel was growing so fast that Jews would eventually become a minority in their own land…The bomb didn’t go off. It was a dud. According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the Jewish fertility rate currently stands at 3.09 births per woman, significantly higher than the Muslim fertility rate of 2.51. The annual number of Jewish births surged 74% between 1995 and 2025, while Arab births in the same period grew by only 21%. Jerusalem’s total fertility rate stands at 4.57 children per woman, more than triple the rate of Washington, D.C. ..Israel isn’t just outpacing the Arabs. It is outpacing everybody. It is the only country in the developed world with a fertility rate above the replacement level, at nearly double that of the next-highest OECD nation. READ MORE