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Budget support based on voting in elections/screenshot, Walla system!
A vast majority of the Jewish public opposes the proposed budget for 2024, which includes extensive cuts on the one hand and the allocation of billions of shekels for the benefit of the ultra-orthodox sector on the other, according to a survey by the association Hadosh - for Religious Freedom and Equality. The survey was conducted in February among 600 respondents who are a representative sample of the adult Jewish population in Israel.
According to the findings of the survey conducted by the Smith Institute, it appears that 73% of the Jewish public 73% oppose the budget and only 27% support it. The question asked as part of the survey is: "The 2024 budget that is up for a vote in the Knesset includes extensive cuts in social services, health, education, culture and more.
Along with the cuts, based on the coalition agreements, billions of shekels were allocated to yeshiva, the ultra-orthodox education system, and to strengthening an orthodox Jewish identity among the secular public.
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Budget support according to religious identity/screenshot, Walla system!
Among the secular public, 93% oppose the budget, as do 77% of the non-religious traditionalists, 60% of the religious traditionalists, and even 57% of the national religious public.
Among Likud voters, 67% oppose the budget, as do 49% of voters of the religious Zionist and Otzma Yehudit parties.
On the other hand, there is 100% support for the budget among the ultra-orthodox public.
There is a majority of those who oppose the approval of the budget with a lot of allowances for the ultra-Orthodox sector and the return to repentance in all political camps, from the right to the left.
Thus it was found that the opposition is greater among women [76%] than among men [70%] and among immigrants from the United States [91%].
Budget support based on political identity/screenshot, Walla system!
Rabbi Adv. Uri Regev, CEO of the Hadosh Association for Religious Freedom and Equality, said that "the opposition in the public to the robbery of the public coffers for the purpose of paying bribes to the religious parties is consistent and long-standing.
This time there is also the unique and painful dimension of the October 7th War and the confrontation with Hezbollah, which illustrate how closed the politicians in the government are to the needs of the state and the will of the public, including their voters, and continue to be held captive by the ultra-Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox parties, in a way that undermines the identity of the State of Israel as a state Jewish and democratic, which guarantees freedom of religion and equality for all, and instead adds billions of shekels to education without a core, which preaches evasion from military service, and undermines the security of the country and its economic
well-being. "This time, the need to put a limit to the political cynicism that characterizes most politicians, from the right to the center and from the left, is especially prominent.
Hadosh is working in the courts to stop coalition funds and to arouse the public to internalize the duty to demand real commitments from their elected officials to oppose the blackmail of the ultra-orthodox parties. I have no doubt that in the next elections this issue will affect their results and bring us closer to realizing the promises of the Declaration of Independence and strengthening the values of democracy."
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