[fatcatdogfat]

I dont have any reference to support this, I think Thomas Sowell or someone else on one of the Hoover Institutes youtube videos, said this, Israel is the only first world country that does not rely on immigration to support population growth, so i would assume all other first world countries population growth is due to minority immigration

[mc32]

? I guess it depends on what you classify as immigration. Israel has depended on a far flung diaspora returning, but I don’t know the numbers, so I’d prefer to see native born growth versus “returnees”.

[SamReidHughes]

Israel’s Jewish fertility rate and Arab fertility rate are in a dead heat at 3.05.

[javaIsGreat]

I assume there is a big difference between secular Jewish Israelis and religious Israelis, so I assume this applies to Arab families as well,

I would assume secular Jews top out at 2-3 kids, religious Jews top out at like 10 kids

[mc32]

I had no idea -that's quite amazing in an advanced economy (as most are aware). I'm sure Singapore is jealous. They've been trying for ages to get their pop to grow internally but always fall short.

[javaIsGreat]

I was surprised to see that many of the eastern European/Russian immigrants moving to Israel over the last 40 years don't supply any evidence of Jewish heritage (i know USSR and other European countries discriminated against Jews so it would make sense that there are a lot of Jews who don't really have the papers to prove it for a few generations).

An article I read said many French jews immigrated to Israel (due to rather recent French anti-semitism sentiment) but immigrated back to Europe once economic advancement for them wasn't attained.

Looks like Israeli society has had kind of an open door policy to Europeans who are able to attain employment (i assume in the tech scene there).