Secular Leanings

March 4, 2008 - 10:59 AM by

This may come as a surprise to people living outside Israel:

A little over half of the people inside the country are secular.

According to this story and a report put out by Israel Democracy Institute’s Guttman branch, 50% of Israelis are secular, 30% are traditional and 19% are Orthodox.

The Guttman Institute …maintained that its newly released data is virtually identical to survey data obtained from the Central Bureau of Statistics, which indicated that 44% of Israelis are secular, 25% are traditional but not religious, 14% are traditional and religious, 10% are Orthodox and 7% are haredi.

The institute’s newly released survey data is based upon a representative sample of 1106 Israelis. The completed Israel Democracy Index will be released in May, but the center decided to release some preliminary data earlier…

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