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Are you cut off from religion in Tel Aviv? This survey surprised us Israel today

2022-09-08T14:31:35.580Z


Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the "Bina" association conducted a survey to test the relevance of the Hebrew dates to Israelis • Only 10% of the seculars knew what their Hebrew birthday was, compared to 100% of the religious and ultra-Orthodox • But when it comes to the calendar, it was precisely in the center and in Sharon that they starred - and in the periphery they surprised


For many years now those who claim that in the center of the country, the loa is the code name "Tel Aviv", are completely disconnected from religion.

Every Tisha B'av, the open cafes are photographed, every Passover we are told about the mass sale of chametz in the city - but new data that emerges in a survey by the Geocartography Institute for the Bina association reveals that we may be wrong about the stigma.

In a survey conducted before Rosh Hashanah, the association asked three questions - is the Hebrew calendar relevant and meaningful to you personally, do you know the Hebrew date of your birthday and do you celebrate it on this date.

Among the secular, only 16.5% answered that the calendar is relevant and significant, this compared to 22.8% who answered that it is relevant but not significant.

24.5% of the respondents said that the Hebrew calendar is meaningful to them but not that relevant, and 36.3% answered that the Hebrew calendar has no meaning or relevance to them.

These figures are surprising, because even when it comes to strictly secular people, as far as vacations and the like are concerned, the Hebrew calendar is the one that rules, due to the holidays.

In total, 63.7% of the secular answered that the Hebrew calendar is relevant or significant to their lives, this compared to 95.4% of the traditional and 100% of the religious and ultra-Orthodox.

When broken down by age, it can be said that the calendar becomes more relevant among those aged 35-54, perhaps as a result of the fact that these respondents have school-aged children.

Among those aged 18-34, 40.3% of respondents answered that the calendar is relevant and meaningful to their lives, this compared to 47.1% of Israelis aged 35-54.

As expected, the married were more bothered by the calendar, with a total of 84.7% responding that the calendar is relevant or significant to their lives, compared to 79.7% of the singles and 72.2% of the divorced.

Young people hanging out in a pub in Tel Aviv (archive, those photographed have no relation to the news), photo: Gideon Markovitch

Surprisingly, the division by residential area produced interesting results.

88.4% of residents of the Sharon region who participated in the survey stated that the Hebrew calendar is relevant or significant to their lives personally, followed immediately by the Central region with 83.2%.

The Jerusalem region is in third place with 82.7%.

The southern region and the northern region are both satisfied with 79.3%, with 20.7% in both stating that the Hebrew calendar has no meaning or relevance for them.

It seems that although the peripheral areas are considered more religious, in practice this is not always the case.

As far as knowing the date of the Hebrew birthday, only 10.1% of the secular answered that they know and celebrate the Hebrew date, and another 40.1% answered that they know the Hebrew date of their birthday, but celebrate on a foreign date or another.

49.8% of the secular answered that they do not know the Hebrew date of their birthday.

91.5% of the religious responded that they know and celebrate the Hebrew date, and among the ultra-Orthodox, as expected, all responded positively to this question.

are completely connected to the Hebrew calendar.

People walking in Bnei Brak (archive, those photographed have no relation to the news), photo: Koko

It is precisely when segmenting by age that an interesting answer is obtained, since it is the younger ones who answered that they know the Hebrew date of their birthday.

Thus, 41.1% of those aged 55+ answered that they do not know the Hebrew date, 36.6% of those aged 35-54 answered this answer, and 23.9% of those aged 18-34 answered that they do not know their Hebrew date.

"The Hebrew calendar is an expression of our content and identity," said Nir Broida, CEO of the Bina Association.

The Hebrew calendar is our story of our origins and identity as Jews, and the connection of 'modern Israeli Judaism' is between the spiritual life that exists on the Hebrew calendar and the practical life that exists on the foreign calendar."

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Source: israelhayom

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