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Mothers and their babies at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, March 25, 2025. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Jewish women’s fertility rate outpaces Muslims in Israel
A dramatic decline sees Muslim fertility down to 2.75 children per woman, while Jewish women reach 3.06.
Hili Yacobi-Handelsman
June 5, 2025
A car-ramming victim is brought to Ichilov Hospital at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2023. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS.
Health Ministry cuts red tape to save sperm from IDF’s fallen
Doctors have performed an operation called sperm preservation on 33 soldiers killed since Oct. 7.
Nov. 9, 2023
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Jan. 5, 2015. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Couple sues Tel Aviv hospital for $9.2m over in-vitro error
The pair discovered their child has no genetic link to the father.
Aug. 10, 2023
U.S. Capitol building. Credit: Gagan Kaur/Pexels.
32 Jewish groups urge Congress to accelerate action on infertility
The bipartisan resolution, sponsored by Hadassah, calls for policies that will increase infertility research, improve treatments and expand access to infertility services.
June 29, 2023
Placenta multinucleated cells. Credit: Moriyah Naama/Buganim Lab.
Israeli researchers convert human skin cells into placenta cells
The study could lead to treatments for fertility issues and pregnancy complications.
June 21, 2023
Ayelet Rosenberg and her children. Credit: Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center.
Four little miracles
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center helps a woman become the first in the world to deliver four children following ovarian tissue cryopreservation.
Judy Lash Balint
Jan. 3, 2023
A newborn at Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, Oct. 29, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israeli birth rate on decline, government data shows
At 6.64 children per woman, the haredi sector had the highest fertility rate among Israel's Jewish population in 2020. Jewish fertility rate surpasses Muslim fertility rate for the first time.
Hili Yacobi-Handelsman and Assaf Golan
Feb. 22, 2022
Israeli children wave Israeli flags ahead of the country's 73rd Independence Day, at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh, April 13, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.
Arab demography Westernizes as Jewish demography thrives
Israel’s unique secular and religious fertility rate reflects the sturdy state of mind of the Jewish state in the stormy Middle East, a most challenging region of the world.
Yoram Ettinger
July 8, 2021
An Israeli young woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Pfizer vaccine doesn’t affect fertility, study shows
COVID-19 vaccine did not change any parameters among 36 couples treated in its IVF clinic, according to a Sheba Medical Center observational study.
Abigail Klein Leichman
June 24, 2021