Abstract
HE present article summarizes some preliminary results of a survey of fertility and fertility control among Jewish maternity cases in Israel . The survey was carried out in the period August, 1959 through March, 1960. A fairly detailed picture of fertility trends in the Jewish population of Israel is already available.2 The object of the survey was to obtain some preliminary (and also relatively rapid and inexpensive) data concerning the extent of family limitation in the various sectors of the Jewish population and concerning its relationship to differential fertility. Fertility declined in the Jewish population of Palestine through the 1930's and reached a low point (total fertility rate of 2.12) in 1941, recovered during and immediately after World War II, and reached a peak in 1947 (total fertility rate of 3.54), the year before Israel achieved independence. A very brief decline in fertility was experienced in 1948, the year of Israel's war of independence, but immediately after, with the beginning of the mass Jewish
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