Israel’s Demography 2023: Declining Fertility, Migration, and Mortality

22.01.2024

Professor Alex Weinreb, Head of the Demography Area and Research Director at the Taub Center, reviews the changes in the...

Migration Patterns in Mixed Cities in Israel: Socioeconomic Perspectives

23.05.2023

Migration is a change in the permanent residence of a person or group. Migration studies differentiate migration between countries from...

Demographic Trends in Israel: An Overview

26.12.2021

Key findings: A rise in mortality rates and a drop in life expectancy: The Covid-19 pandemic has driven mortality levels significantly...

Youth Bulge, Violent Crime, and Shortages in the Israeli Arab Marriage Market

19.12.2021

There is broad consensus in the literature regarding the positive correlation between, on the one hand, a large cohort of...

Bringing Israel’s South to the center of the policy discussion

23.08.2021

The general perception of Israel’s geographic periphery, namely the country’s North and South, is that these regions contain larger concentrations...

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A Sociodemographic Profile of the South

07.06.2021

This study focuses on changes in the sociodemographic and economic profile of Israel’s Southern District, which broadly includes the Negev....

Population Projections for Israel, 2017-2040

25.04.2020

In demographic terms, Israel is a unique country: it is characterized by an unusual combination of high fertility rates, low...

Anticipating the Total Mortality Impact of Coronavirus in Israel

29.03.2020

The study’s authors do not expect the number of deaths from the virus to exceed several hundred. However, they highlight...

Israel’s Exceptional Fertility

23.12.2018

It is widely known that fertility levels in Israel exceed fertility levels in all other developed countries, and that this...

Socioeconomics in Israel at a glance: what is the picture of the nation?

21.06.2018

The Taub Center’s A Picture of the Nation 2018, generously supported by the Koret Foundation, presents a complex picture of...

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  • Taub Center Staff

The Demographic Cost: Birth Rates and Achievement on International Tests

02.10.2011

Research has shown that these two variables, family size and class size, adversely affect academic achievement. International studies show that...