63% of Israeli Jews identify with right-wing/religious parties, only 16% identify with Left; just 30% believe ‘settlements’ harm Israel.
Israeli Jews tend to identify with right-wing and religious parties, according to polling data released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
Nearly half (48%) of all Israeli Jews said they felt closest to one of the three rightwing parties in the Knesset: the Likud (28%), Jewish Home (11%), and Yisrael Beytenu (9%).
Another 15% of Israeli Jews identified with haredi parties, including 12% who chose Shas, and 3% who identified with the United Torah Judaism party.
Only 16% identified with leftwing parties like Labor (10%), Meretz (4%) and HaTnua (2%), which in 2015 ran on a joint list with Labor.
A further 12% felt closest to centrist parties like Yesh Atid and the now-defunct Kadima party, while 9% chose none of the above.
In total, roughly 63% of Israel’s Jews identify with religious or right-wing parties, compared to only 28% who felt closest to left-wing or center parties.
According to the data, political affiliation strongly correlates with religiosity. Nearly all haredi Jews identified with either Shas or United Torah Judaism, while 87% of national religious Jews favored religious or right-wing parties.
On the specific issue of building in Judea and Samaria, a plurality (42%) of Israeli Jews believe expanding the Jewish presence over the Green Line benefits Israel’s security. Less than a third (30%) believe expanding Jewish communities in Jude and Samaria harms Israeli security, while 25% feel it neither helps nor hurts.
It doesn’t matter because their “right wing gov” ignores their wishes and follows a leftist and foreign agenda instead. One normally expects when electing their preferred right wing gov that the right wing would enjoy some gains… and yet in the seven plus years there have instead been losses and obstruction of settlement outside the euro designated ghetto boundaries. Looks like the gov is holding the nation in Trust for the next leftist gov.
Israel favors right wing… but the right wing gov does not favor the majority of right wingers… as none of their actions advances any right wing agenda…. I wonder why a right wing gov NEVER advances the right wing agenda….. BB cant say these words, when he tries to say them he gets nauseous:
“JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN YS IS LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE”
since BB cant say it his fake right wing coalition cant say it either…. and we know the religious parties can never say anthing that is not connected to their perks and avoiding the draft.
Pathetic…. Israel favors the right wing but their right wing gov cant achieve anything right wing…. what a dilemma.
their solution: incarcerate right wing dissenting Jews and accuse Jews of burning babies.