Israel Demography
Media Hebrew NEW Jerusalem Contact

The Million Person Gap: A Critical Look at Palestinian Demography
by Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid and Michael L. Wise
BESA Perspectives No. 15, May 1, 2006 link


Research Reports

"Arab Population in the West Bank & Gaza: The Million Person Gap" - Updated! English Hebrew

"Forecast for Israel and West Bank 2025" English Hebrew

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies publishes "The Million Person Gap" English Hebrew

Jewish Demographic Momentum

Voodoo Demographics
Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid and Michael L. Wise, Azure: Summer 5766/2006, No. 25 (link)


Demographic Momentum Update May 4, 2006 by Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid and Michael L. Wise

Policy Implications

Defusing the Demographic Time Bomb
In May 2003 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that Israel would withdraw from the Gaza Strip to demographically
defensible lines in light of forecasts that Israeli Jews would soon lose their majority west of the Jordan River.
by Bennett Zimmerman and Michael Wise, inFocus Spring 2008 (link)


Preserving Israel

New Options for Middle East Peace: A Plan to Extend Israel’s Democracy to the West Bank.
The separation of Gaza and the West Bank provides the greatest opportunity since 1967 to resolve the status of
the West Bank and Jerusalem.
by Bennett Zimmerman and Michael L. Wise with Roberta Seid, Washington Times, August 3, 2007

Articles

Latest Stats: Israel's Demographic Trend is Jewish, Not Arab
by Hillel Fendel April 2, 2008


Where Israel Went Astray
by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post: January 19, 2007


Big Drop in Israeli Arab fertility rates
by Shahar Ilan, Haaretz: June 17, 2006


Olmert's plan for Jerusalem
by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post: June 15, 2006


Endorsement of Study

Nicholas Eberstadt endorses the AIDRG demographic work at the Herzliya conference

 
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) Jan 10, 2005 Feb 23, 2006
 
Presentation at AEI Complete 2005 Report