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| By israelinsider staff March 6, 2007 |
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The booms of last summer's Katyusha barrages trapped people inside their homes in northern Israel. Fighters returned home for emotional reunions with their partners. The stress of uncertainty led to immediate stress relief. The result, according to Israeli HMOs: a baby boom.
Israel's Channel 10 television quoted health maintenance organization statistics which indicated that the number of women now in their fifth, sixth or seventh month of pregnancy was a whopping 35 percent higher than the figure a year ago.
Gila Bronner, director of the Sexual Health Service at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital, said increased sexual activity during and after a war was Israelis' answer to its enemies.
"We wanted to tell the world, 'You tried to kill us, but you didn't -- See, we're alive,'" she told Channel 10.
Her words echoed a comic song by Jewtopia's Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum describing the traditional Jewish response to historical adversity: They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat.
In this case, however, the "eat" was evidently replaced with an equally primal verb.
Israel experienced a four-year baby boom after the Six-Day War in 1967. Births increased sharply for two years following the end of its 1973 Yom Kippur War. |
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