While Israeli Jews all but unanimously support the idea that all Jews around the world should have the option to move to Israel, they are divided on the question of whether Jews already in Israel should feel an obligation to stay there. In general, members of the more religiously observant Jewish identity categories are more likely to see Israeli Jews as having an obligation to live in — and stay in — Israel.
Younger adults are somewhat more likely than older Israeli Jews to say Jews in Israel should feel free to move abroad. And highly educated Jews are more likely than those with less education to say Israeli Jews should feel free to leave Israel to pursue economic opportunities elsewhere. Jews were asked, in two separate questions, whether a Jewish state and a thriving Jewish diaspora are each necessary for the long-term survival of the Jewish people.
Yiddish-speaking Jews, however, stand out on this question. Overall, Haredim are closer to other Jewish subgroups on the question of whether a thriving diaspora is necessary for the long-term survival of the Jewish people. Majorities across the religious spectrum say it is necessary. All Israeli respondents in the survey were asked to name, in their own words, what they see as the single most important long-term problem facing Israel. Pluralities of Muslims, Christians and Druze — roughly four-in-ten among each religious group — name economic problems as the biggest issue facing Israel.
Despite the fact that by a variety of standard measures of religious observance, American Jews are less religious than Israeli Jews, Haredim in Israel are somewhat more likely than other Jewish subgroups to see common ground between themselves and Jews in the U. It is possible Israeli Haredim are thinking of Haredim in the U. Jews , when making this comparison. Overall, Israeli Jews who have visited the U.
The differences in opinion between those who have visited the U. Israeli Jews are largely united by the idea that they share a common destiny with Jews in the United States. Jews and Israeli Jews. Jews have a good influence on the way things are going in Israel. Jews have a bad influence. There are relatively few differences across Jewish subgroups on this question. At least half of Haredim, Datiim, Masortim and Hilonim say American Jews have a good influence, while about one-in-ten or fewer say the influence from U.
Jews in Israel is negative. There also are relatively few differences among Jewish demographic groups on the question of whether U. Jews have a good or bad influence in Israel. Left-leaning Jews are somewhat more likely than those in the center or on the right to say U. Overall, Jews who have visited or lived in the United States are no more or less likely than others to say American Jews have a positive influence in Israel. Haredim who have visited the United States, however, are considerably more likely than Haredim who have not visited the U.
Among Haredim who have visited the U. Israeli Arabs are considerably more likely than Jews to say American Jews have a bad influence on the way things are going in Israel. This is something that happens in practice, but that obviously Palestinians in the occupied territories — including Jerusalem — do not see as fair, especially as they are constantly forcibly evicted off their ancestral homeland by Israel to make way for foreign Jewish settlers, and because Palestinians in their diaspora are denied the same right to come and live.
Sixth, it means, before final status negotiations have even started, that Palestinians would have then given up the rights of about 7 million Palestinians in the diaspora to repatriation or compensation; 7 million Palestinians descended from the Palestinians who in lived in historical Palestine ie what is now Israel, the West Bank including Jerusalem, and Gaza and at that time made up , of its , inhabitants; and who were driven off their land through war, violent eviction or fear.
He, only He, is the Hearer, the Seer. Moreover, Muslims wanting to take a similar, religiously exclusive narrative, could point out that while Jerusalem is mentioned times in the Bible, it is not mentioned once in the Torah as such — a fact that any Biblical Concordance will easily confirm.
It has to do with the very Covenant of God in the Bible with Ancient Israelites of the promise of a homeland for Jews. God says to Abraham in the Bible:. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.
Deuteronomy, ; NKJ. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Joshua, ; NKJ. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the LORD. Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library. The Cairo Conference. General Allenby Enters Jerusalem. Footage of General Allenby Entering Jerusalem. December 11, Origins of Palestinian Arabs. Pre-State Israel Polls. The Tobiansky Affair. International Relations.
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