… In a Democratic State, the general value system and the public good are more important than the particular value system of one group or another. Therefore, there is no justification for the State to provide incentives for the multiplicity of children, even when the families in question are motivated by religious values, and even …
[Editor’s note: Zuhair Andreus is a well-known Arab-Israeli journalist and is not an amateur of Zion (to be gentle). His article in Haaretz calls on Arabs to reduce childbirth. As far as is known, he did not express such an opinion, but he did not retract it]. “… Mr. Netanyahu, you may be surprised by …
… The country’s leaders should tell people who bring a lot of children into the world: ‘It’s irresponsible, you’re doing bad to your children and your families. You behave irresponsibly towards your environment. ‘ I suggest that everyone with a stage and a microphone will tell those segments of the population: ‘You are not right.’ …
Bnei Brak competes with Jerusalem, number one in poverty. But the fact is that in Bnei Brak, 80% or more of the families, one of the parents does not work. You can not demand that both parents go to work – there are children at home. The cause of poverty is not the parents who …
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“… A woman who brings eight children to a sinful world for her own children and the whole society. I believe that, as a rule, people avoid harming those around them, while only the courage to our leaders, intellectuals, and public opinion leaders is to raise the problem to the fullest extent on the public …
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“The dependency ratio is on the increase,” said Eliyahu Ben Moshe. He is talking about the ratio between the number of people of working age and the number of people who are not. “Today, every four Israelis of working age support one elderly individual. Within two and a half decades, the burden will increase and there will …
“…The Israeli desire to realize the parental impulse without taking into consideration economic considerations leads to a population explosion, which means less water per resident, more cars, and more traffic jams. This is also one of the reasons for the housing crisis. A typical couple who lives in an apartment he owns brings three times as …
… The high birthrate of the Haredi public is one of the reasons why the middle class has not finished the month. Where are our tax payments going? Some of them are for security, some for infrastructures that we all use in a fairly equal way, but most of them go to support the young …
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“… we must understand that the greatest enemy to the environment is the plurality of the population, which is stealing ever increasing resources from a fixed or declining reservoir of resources … The state must stop encouraging childbirth in all respects …” Ehud Goodes, 2013
…In an ever more crowded world, it is time to end the system whereby the majority subsidizes the minority who choose to have large families. We don’t need more people. Childcare and other state support should be limited to the first two children. Simon Ross, chief executive of Population Matters, 2014
