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In 2020, 30,260 couples registered to get married, compared to 34,083 in the previous year. Samin said that about 10 percent of those who registered to be married did not set a date “due to the uncertainty of being able to hold a wedding in a banquet hall or garden at this time.”
However, “this trend was not evident in the ultra-Orthodox sector, where people learned to live with the crisis,” he said.
“According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel’s population increases by 2 percent annually – 81 percent of it stems from natural growth (the difference between births and deaths) and 19 percent from the migration balance (the difference between those who leave the country and new immigrants). When you add the percentage of those who left the country in 2020 to the number of marriage registrations (13 percent) and the population increase (2 percent), you find that in 2020 the number of people registering to be married was 15 percent lower than in 2019. This takes into consideration that in the past five years there has been a downward trend of some 5 percent in the number of people registering to get married,” he added.