{"id":4274,"date":"2019-01-02T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:41:12","slug":"a-first-world-country-with-the-birthrate-of-a-third-world-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/en\/a-first-world-country-with-the-birthrate-of-a-third-world-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A first world country with the birthrate of a third world country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2018\/1214\/Israel-booms-with-babies-as-developed-world-s-birthrates-plummet.-Here-s-why\">Dina Kraft, 14\/12\/2018, The Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p>Alon Tal, a professor of public policy at Tel Aviv University, has been among the lone voices in Israel sounding a warning about Israel\u2019s exponential population growth, which he says has already made it the most crowded country in the developed world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"injection\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe have a narrative that has not told people of the terrible end results,\u201d he says. He cites the state\u2019s own estimates that in just over 20 years there may be five million more citizens living here, with all that implies for rising housing prices, ballooning traffic, jobs, mounting greenhouse emissions, and the education system.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tal, author of the book, \u201cThe Land is Full: Addressing Overpopulation in Israel,\u201d calls for an end to government subsidies provided to families with children, including preferential rights for public housing and child allowances.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, he adds; \u201cEmpower women, empower women. All the rest is commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2018\/1214\/Israel-booms-with-babies-as-developed-world-s-birthrates-plummet.-Here-s-why\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dina Kraft, 14\/12\/2018, The Christian Science Monitor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[61,60,77],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/population.org.il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}