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September 10, 2024

How a Sense of National Belonging Explains Israeli Fertility

A connection to past and to future.

The vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance has repeatedly expressed his concern with America’s declining birthrates, and advocated such policies as having the government cover the costs of delivery and perinatal care. In Israel, which leads the developed world in fertility, state-subsidized insurance indeed covers all such costs, and parents receive many other generous government benefits. But, writes, Daniel Kane, these are unlikely to be the reason for the country’s demographic miracle:

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