According to opinion polls, many Israelis are increasingly concerned about the so-called “threat from within,” i.e. the very high birthrate among Israeli Arabs coupled with the increasing numbers of Israelis Arabs who say they identify with extremist groups dedicated to Israel’s destruction, such as Hizbullah and Hamas.

So this chap with 67 children (and two more on the way) won’t make everyone happy.

Israeli Arab farmer has 8 wives and 67 children By Matthew Kalman, New York Daily News He has eight wives, 67 children and two more on the way. And Shehadeh Abu Arar says he couldn’t be happier. The Israeli Arab farmer and camel breeder boasts of knowing all his little ones by name and brushes off questions about his unusual lifestyle. “I am happy I have kids, this is what God gave us,” said Abu Arar, 58. “This is what He wants, and I do what He tells me.” Abu Arar has more children than any man in Israel, where Arab population growth causes some to fear that Jews will someday be a minority. He first married in 1967 and had 31 children from his first two wives. His eldest son is 37 and his youngest child is less than 1. So far, he has 20 grandchildren. All of them live with him in an extended family compound in the village of Burgata, where he shuttles from one lovely to another. “Every night I decide which wife to go to,” Abu Arar recently told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. His youngest wife is only 23, a Palestinian from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Abu Arar is not stopping there – eight wives, apparently, is not enough. “Now I am thinking about a new wife, No. 9, and I am already preparing for the marriage,” he said. “There are many women who wish to marry me.” The family grows flowers and vegetables near its home. It also raise cows, sheep and goats that provide food for the extended clan. Every morning, a bus comes and takes 30 of the children to the local school. It’s not all milk and honey for the wives. “Each one has to take care of her own children, and I have my own chores,” Abu Arar told Yedioth Ahronoth. “It’s very difficult. But, thank God, my children help out, and we make a good living.” Under Israeli law, Bedouins like Abu Arar may take as many wives as they like without being considered a polygamist. In a quirk of law, only 53 of the children are Israeli citizens – the other 14 are considered Palestinians because their mothers came from the West Bank. Some Israeli nationalists fret that higher birthrates may one day make Arabs, who represent about 20% of the Israeli population, a majority in the Jewish state.