Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, Executive Director of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), expressed concern over the population density in Israel and called for a drop in the country's birthrate. In an interview with Yediot Aharonot, Trajtenberg said, "When I look ahead, I see a future that is blacker than black." He noted that according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2020 there were nearly 9.3 million people living in Israel, and this number grows by nearly 2% each year. "We are living in the third most densely populated country among OECD countries,...
