Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel

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Abstract

Israel is known as a pronatalist country. Whether due to the Biblical commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ or the traumas of the Holocaust and perennial wars, reproduction is a central life goal for most Israelis. Israeli women bear substantially more children than their counterparts in industrialized countries and view child-rearing as a key life accomplishment. These personal world-view and real-life individual quests take place in a context of equally pronatalist state policies and religious openness to assisted reproductive technologies. In this paper, I outline 35 years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel by tracing a principal axis in the development of three major technologies of assisted reproduction: the proliferation of IVF-ICSI; the globalization of gamete donation; and the privatization of surrogacy. The paper is based on a policy analysis as well as various studies of assisted reproductive technologies, conducted in Israel over this period.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16-23
Number of pages8
JournalReproductive Biomedicine and Society Online
Volume2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2016

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Keywords

  • IVF
  • Israel
  • privatization
  • reproductive technologies
  • surrogacy
  • third-party reproduction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Health(social science)
  • Cultural Studies
  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Developmental Biology

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