Israeli Opinion On Religious Matters

What Jewish stream do you consider yourself belonging to? (JPPI, 2020)

	2020
Orthodox	37%
Conservative	4%
Reform	4%
I do not belong to any stream	52%
Refused to answer	4%

How do you define your level of religiosity? (JPPI, 2020)

	2020
Totally secular	31%
Secular traditional	23%
Traditional	17%
Liberal religious	4%
Religious	11%
National Haredim	6%
Haredim	8%
Mixed	1%

With regard to the conversion, which of the following statements is closest to your view?(JPPI, 2020)

	2020
A Jew is someone who has a Jewish mother or completed an Orthodox conversion	38%
A Jew is someone who has a Jewish mother or completed a conversion by a recognized Jewish denomination	24%
A Jew is somoene with a Jewish mother or father, or completed a conversion process and identifies as a Jew	27%
A Jew is someone who considers themselves Jewish	7%
DK	4%

With regard to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which of the following statements is closest to your view? (JPPI, 2020)

	2020
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is a vital and functional body	14%
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is a vital body which needs to improve its functioning	32%
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel needs to exists, but its authority needs to drastically reduced	32%
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is an unnecessary body, which needs to be disband	19%
DK	3%

With regard to the debate about public transportation on Shabbat, which of the following statements is closest to your view? (JPPI, 2020)

	2020
Public transportation on Shabbat should be completely banned	26%
Every city or neighborhood should decide whether or not to allow public transportation on Shabbat	15%
There should be public transportation on Shabbat, except within religious cities and neighborhoods	36%
There should be public transportation on Shabbat without any restrictions	20%
DK	3%

Reform Jews are not really Jews? (JPPI, 2020)

	2020
Totally disagree	45%
Somewhat disagree	26%
Somewhat agree	12%
Totally agree	11%
DK	6%

I identify first as: (The Guttman Center Surveys, May, 2008)

Jewish	47%
Israeli	42%

I identify second as: (The Guttman Center Surveys, May, 2008)

Jewish	33%
Israeli	40%

I identify first as: (IMRA 2007)

	Jewish	Israeli	Neither
Secular	23%	72%	-
Conservative	64%	27%	-
Religious	82%	8%	-
Strictly-Orthodox	92%	5%
Total	50%	45%	5%

How do you identify your religious beliefs? (INSS 2005-2007)

	2004-CBS	2005-CBS	2006-Sample	2007-Sample
Ultra-orthodox	8.0%	6.7%	8.8%	8.5%
Religious	8.7%	9.8%	12.8%	12.8%
Traditional-religious	12%	13.4%	11.6%	14.1%
Traditional- non-religious	26.5%	25.0%	26.8%	20.9%
Secular	44.8%	45.0%	40.)%	43.7%

Do you support or oppose the decision of the Supreme Court allowing "jump conversions" according to which conversions overseas are recognized in Israel? [IMRA: Until now, those who resided overseas and went through the entire conversion process overseas in a Reform or Conservative conversion were recognized as Jews by the State of Israel and could immigrate to Israel under to Law of Return. The court now ruled that people residing already in Israel who undergo all but the final stage of conversion inside Israel and then go overseas for the conversion ceremony also would be recognized as Jews by the State. There was considerable confusion over the significance of this ruling as some Orthodox critics of the decision gave the impression that until now Reform and Conservative conversions were not recognized in Israel]. (Israel Radio's "Another Matter" program, April 6, 2005)

Support	45%
Oppose	42%
Other	13%