Dan Ben-David: Are Israelis having too many children?

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Shmuel Rosner

November 28, 2018

Shmuel Rosner and guest Dan Ben-David discuss Israel’s future overpopulation, the importance of quality education, Israel’s brain drain and more..

Professor Dan Ben-David is the founder and President of the independent, non-partisan, Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research and a senior faculty member of the Department of Public Policy at Tel-Aviv University. He is the former executive director of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies.

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