The author's argument completely fell apart when they highlighted Israel's Haredim as a high fertility group that is socially respected. I don't believe this is

The author's argument completely fell apart when they highlighted Israel's Haredim as a high fertility group that is socially respected. I don't believe this is actually the case. I'm not Israeli, but my strong sense is that the Haredim are widely condemned as freeloaders, receiving lots of public benefits but not contributing via taxes or military service. I can't find any good opinion polls but a cursory search will find a number of Op/Ed articles from Israeli newspapers commenting on the topic. I suspect Israeli fertility has a lot more to do with nationalism (though not among the Haredi groups, who are often explicitly anti-nationalist). However, reviewing the data it doesn't seem like there's a clear pattern - Turkey (another country I'd consider currently as nationalist) has above average TFR but so does Iceland and France (two countries I wouldn't consider nationalist).