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The joys of a new grandchild blur the
demographic concerns of tomorrow.
y daughter Dana has cent years has forestalled an
just done her bit to otherwise inevitable increase in
maintain a Jewish ma- the percentage of Arabs in the
jority in the Galilee. total Israeli population. But only
She gave birth to a little girl, another wave of Jewish immi-
Noa, at the Rebecca Sieff Hos- grants will prevent that figure
pital in Safed.
from going beyond the present
That is not why Dana and her 18 percent.
husband
Moshe, resi-
dents of Kiryat
Shmoneh, de-
cided to have
another child.
Their decision
stemmed from
the fact that
they love chil-
dren and that
their first two
were boys.
So
they
hoped that their
third offspring Two happy new mothers in a Jerusalem hospital.
would be a girl,
a hope fulfilled.
In the Galilee itself, Arabs al-
But their personal considera- ready constitute almost 50 per-
tions notwithstanding, the de- cent of the populace. Partly as a
mographic balance between result of that, some Israeli Arabs
Jews and Arabs in the Galilee is are suggesting that the area
very much an issue these days. eventually be given autonomy.
This was made crystal clear Some say that it might eventu-
when, in talking with a senior ally be incorporated into a fu-
official at the Sieff Hospital, I ture Palestinian state.
asked him to tell me, in per-
This in turn has led some
centage terms, how many Jew- members of the government to
ish and Arab babies are born demand that the Galilee be "Ju-
there each year. After hesitat- daized" as quickly as possible.
ing for a moment, he replied: Such an effort was made over
"I'm sorry I can't give you that two decades ago, and resulted in
information. The subject is too the establishment of many new
sensitive."
Jewish cities and villages. But
Recent attempts to
"Judaize" the
region didn't
change the balance
for long.
I wasn't willing to accept that
and continued pestering him. Fi-
nally he suggested that there
was a rough ethnic balance in
the maternity ward because the
many Orthodox Jews in the
area, like the Galilee Arabs,
have large families.
I don't know if what he told
me is correct, but the fact re-
mains that the average Arab
mother in Israel has five or six
children while the average Jew-
ish mother has two or three.
To be sure, the mass immi-
gration of Russian Jews in re-
since the Arabs went on having
larger families, the demograph-
ic balance didn't change for long.
It remains to be seen whether
another attempt will be made to
"Judaize" the Galilee, particu-
larly since some ministers are
more intent on bringing addi-
tional Jews to the West Bank
and Gaza Strip. This latter
group favors a doubling of the
Jewish population in the terri-
tories, raising it from 150,000 to
300,000.
However, this would hardly
"Judaize" Judea, Samaria and
the Gaza Strip, where the Arab
population is already 2 million
and the birth rate is higher than
anywhere in the world.
In the meantime, Noa's par-
ents and grandparents are too
busy enjoying the new arrival to
be concerned with such demo-
graphic quandaries. But when
she grows up, such topics could
very well concern Noa. ❑
CJ