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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: February 4, 2007 |
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Fifty-two percent of the Jewish population in Israel feel that Judaism and democracy are equally important, a poll published Sunday by Ynet's Judaism channel revealed. Just over 26 percent feel the Jewish identity of Israel is more important than democracy, and nearly 19 percent feel democracy is more important than Judaism.
Over half of Israel's secular Jewish community said that Judaism and democracy were equally important. The opinion was shared by 53 percent of traditional Jews in the country, 39 percent of religious Jews, and 23 percent of Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews, 72 percent feel the country should be Jewish first, and democratic second.
Thirty-four percent of haredi respondents and 45 percent of secular respondents agreed that the religious parties in the Knesset were the most problematic characteristic of religious interference in the State's management. Twenty percent of religious respondents held the same opinion.
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