According to a 2015 article published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, modern Jews have children who are more frequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder than ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arabs.
The study, which was led by Dr. Raanan Raz, who was at the Harvard School of Public Health at the time, analyzed data collected on over 2,400,000 children from the Israeli National Insurance Institute.
Raz and an international team of scientists suggested that a lack of awareness in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community could account for the discrepancy.
Since ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel “refrain from modern life,” as they put it, they would be less likely to seek out a modern doctor to make an autism diagnosis….