On September 1, the children of Israel return to school.
With an average of three children per woman, Israel also has the highest fertility rate in the OECD by a considerable margin. At the end of 2016, there were 2,851,911 children in the country, making up a third of the population, according to a report by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
“The windows of a classroom always open to the future,” wrote the poet Yehuda Amichai, a statement that President Reuven Rivlin quoted in his letter to Israeli children on Sunday morning.