For over a hundred years, demography has been at the heart of the Zionist project, reflected in the goal of creating and maintaining a Jewish majority in Israel and in ensuring the physical continuation of the Jewish people

1: Israel's Destiny: Fertility and Mortality in a Divided Society; 1: Fertility; 2: The Modern Shift to Below-Replacement Fertility: Has Israel's Population Joined the Process?; 3: Religiosity, Nationalism and Fertility in Israel; 4: Innovation and Adaptation in Fertility Transition: Jewish Immigrants to Israel from Muslim North Africa and the Middle East; 5: Fertility Behavior of Recent Immigrants to Israel: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrants from Ethiopia and the Former Soviet Union; 6: The Predecline Rise in Israeli Muslim Fertility; 2: Nuptially and Contraception; 7: Age at Marriage, Sex-Ratios, and Ethnic Heterogamy; 8: Insight into Ethnic Flux: Marriage Patterns Among Jews of Mixed Ancestry in Israel; 9: Religiosity and Contraceptive Method Choice: The Jewish Population of Israel; 10: Socioeconomic and Cultural Determinants of Abortion Among Jewish Women in Israel; 3: Mortality; 11: Old-Age Mortality in Israel: Analysis of Variation and Change; 12: Does Religious Observance Promote Health? Mortality in Secular vs. Religious Kibbutzim in Israel; 13: Death Rests a While: Holy Day and Sabbath Effects on Jewish Mortality in Israel; 14: Mortality Differentials among Women: The Israel Longitudinal Mortality Study; 15: Mortality after Spousal Loss: Are There Socio-Demographic Differences?; 16: Mortality in Two Jewish Populations-Montreal and Israel: Environmental Determinants of Differences; 4: Related Issues; 17: The Extra Burden of Muslim Wives: Clues from Israeli Women's Labor Supply; 18: From Pronatalism to Social Welfare? Extending Family Allowances to Minority Populations in France and Israel; 19: Jerusalem's Population, 1995-2020: Demography, Multiculturalism, and Urban Policies