Fast-Growing Jewish Population May Hold Off Israel’s ‘Demographic Time Bomb’

Israel’s Jewish women are unusual among industrialized nations for their high birth rate, while modernizing Arab women have fewer babies than in the past.
Fast-Growing Jewish Population May Hold Off Israel’s ‘Demographic Time Bomb’
High-rise buildings in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on Feb. 15, 2025. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
Dan M. Berger
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Israelis have wondered at times whether they would be outnumbered by Palestinians and become a minority in the world’s only Jewish homeland.

The fear of a “demographic time bomb” has often been cited by those who support the two-state solution, in which Palestinians would get an independent state alongside the Jewish state. An independent Palestinian state, they say, is the only way for Israel to remain majority Jewish.