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November 17, 2016

Special Notice:

For the next few days, this blog will be shorter than usual because your humble servant will be traveling extensively deep in the heart of Judea and Samaria.

Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours

There were more than 20 attacks yesterday primarily consisting of “rock” and Molotov attacks directed against Israeli families riding in cars. At least 2 people were wounded badly enough to require hospitalization.

If Amona goes, so go illegal Arab residential structures in Jerusalem

Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem, issued a statement yesterday that said if the Jewish community of Amona is evacuated and destroyed as the Supreme Court has ordered, illegal Arab structures built on private Jewish land would be destroyed throughout the city.

Specifically, Barkat said that the municipality of Jerusalem has approved demolition of 14 residential buildings in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of the city currently housing 40 Arab families..

As Barkat so wisely said, “There is not one law for Arabs and another for Jews.”

By the way, Barkat said that the 14 buildings are just the tip of the iceberg; there are hundreds of such buildings in the city’s eastern neighborhoods.

 
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TODAY’S BLOG:

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Yesterday an amazing announcement was made that had not been made since the state of Israel was reborn in 1948.

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, data from 2015 shows that Israeli-Jewish and Israeli-Arab women now have exactly the same fertility rate: 3.13.

Stop and think about that for a moment.

For decades, the Israeli-Arab fertility rate has far exceeded that of the Israeli Jewish population. As recently as sixteen years ago, in 2000, the fertility rate for Israeli-Arab women was 4.3 and that for Jewish-Israeli women was only 2.6.

The implications of this are critical and hopefully will begin to lay to rest the oft-repeated canard that Israel’s demographic situation is perilous.

The statistics also showed that at the end of the year, there were 2.798 million children in the country (roughly one third of the population). Of these: 1.966 million are Israeli-Jewish and 718,000 are Israeli-Arab. 

It will be interesting to see if 2016 continues this trend of a declining Israeli-Arab fertility rate and an increasing Israeli-Jewish one. Let’s hope so!