Israel birth rate

Israel in numbers: National population hits 10.305m., new CBS data shows ahead of Rosh Hashanah

Israel added some 124,000 residents over the past year, while emigration remained higher than immigration, according to new CBS data.

Israel's population stands at 10.305 million ahead of the Jewish new year.
Feeding baby from a bottle

What's in a name? Population Authority shares most popular baby names ahead of Rosh Hashanah

Israel's burial grounds shortage is worse than that predicted by the state comptroller in 2024.

Israel might be on verge of burial crisis with cemeteries struggling for burial space

An armed Israeli pushes a pram along a street in Tel Aviv.

Birth rates: Why are Israel's rising while numbers drop in the West?


Marketplace: Baby Boom

Why is Israel’s fertility rate at an all-time high?

The writer, Shlomo Maital, with his new grandson Carmel Sapir Maital

It makes financial sense to subsidize IVF tech, BGU says

Israel offers full public funding for IVF to any Israeli woman irrespective of her marital status or sexual orientation, until she has two children with her current male partner.

Illustrative image of a newborn baby

In birth and death, Israel is the happiest country in the world

Israel's high birth rate and low suicide rate are cause for celebration.

Israelis gather to watch the annual Independence Day flyover.

Average number of babies in Israel highest among OECD countries

The Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the birthrate in Israel is the highest among OECD countries.

Illustrative image of a newborn baby

The human spirit: Buying the carriage before the baby

Tamar was in the pediatric intensive care unit, which one can’t enter without permission.

YOSSI AND RIVKY Bar enjoy a moment of gaiety with their daughter, Tamar.

Réinventer la nation juive

L’émergence imminente d’Israël en tant que centre démographique du peuple juif changera le cours de l’histoire

Célébration de l'indépendance à Jérusalem

Summer marks pilot of Birthright Israel ‘Plus’

When you’re not ready to leave just yet.

PARTICIPANTS ON a Birthright Israel Plus trip to Eilat that included snorkeling, yoga and hiking enjoy what has proven to be the most popular additional tour so far

Naturally conceived quadruplets born in Jerusalem

Some 22,000 babies are born each year at Shaare Zedek, believed to be the most for a single hospital in the world.

Cribs for newborn babies are seen through an window at a nursery in a hospital in Jerusalem, September 10, 2015.

Wonder Woman Gal Gadot welcomes second 'wonder baby'

Israeli model and actress Gal Gadot who now stars as Wonder Woman welcomed a second baby girl on Sunday evening.

Gal Gadot anounces pregnancy

Belgian actor blasts ‘criminal procreation policies of the Jews in Israel’

According to a 2014 study by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, the Jewish state has "one of the highest birthrates in the developed world."

A baby sits in front of an Israeli flag