Do you think that Israel's rapidly growing population will eventually cause it to build more settlements? (life, country)

[Futurist110]

Originally Posted by Pruzhany

With today's technology and their current ecosystem, the tipping point on exponential growth will probably be north of 20 million in 40 or so years.

Do you have any guess as to just how far north of 20 million?

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by Futurist110

Do you have any guess as to just how far north of 20 million?

Necessity is the mother of invention and Israel does extremely well when necessity arises.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Beginning in the late 1980s, Israel absorbed over a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union - quite a feat for a small country in which some of the land is uninhabitable.

[Futurist110]

Originally Posted by Pruzhany

Necessity is the mother of invention and Israel does extremely well when necessity arises.

Will it continue to do so once its demographics will change in a significantly more Ultra-Orthodox direction, though?

[Futurist110]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Beginning in the late 1980s, Israel absorbed over a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union - quite a feat for a small country in which some of the land is uninhabitable.

Yep. My own parents were a part of this wave, as was my maternal uncle and a great-aunt on my father's side (along with her daughter, I believe). My own parents subsequently moved to the US in March 2001 together with me and my younger sister (with both of us being born in Israel).

[mathlete]

Settlements?

How can you settle a land which already has millions of inhabitants and centuries-old cities, towns and villages?

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by Futurist110

Yep. My own parents were a part of this wave, as was my maternal uncle and a great-aunt on my father's side (along with her daughter, I believe). My own parents subsequently moved to the US in March 2001 together with me and my younger sister (with both of us being born in Israel).

I read that some Russians had problems adjusting to Israeli life. One reason being that many of them had only a tenuous connection to a Jewish heritage. Some had no Jewish background at all. A few disaffected young men even became neo-Nazis.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...nd-396392.html

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by mathlete

Settlements?

How can you settle a land which already has millions of inhabitants and centuries-old cities, towns and villages?

Build upward and not outward.

[mojo101]

Look at Hong Kong,it was a fisherman village and then now it is 7 millions??
some live in a partition which is just enough for a small bed?

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by mojo101

Look at Hong Kong,it was a fisherman village and then now it is 7 millions??
some live in a partition which is just enough for a small bed?

HK gets more rainfall than Israel.