Are all the Jews in Israel religies?

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Proud Grandma

No, the Jews in Israel are less religious than the Jews from other countries. Unless they live in the Orthodox community, most Jews are liberal and don't go to Shul. (Synagogue)

DB-T- DH Smith #1 Fan

No, it is not a law in Israel that everyone goes to Synagogue.

The majority of Jews in Israel are secular. Some are extremely secular, and oppose religion entirely.

About a small percent % are orthodox Jews; the fact that state and church are not separated (orthodox have political parties in government), makes life seem more religious than would represent the people - for example, the goverment will regulate no public transportation in Israel on the Shabat, which is against what the majority of people would like to have.

YHC

No, some are and some are not religious.

Shay p

No not everyone is religious.

No people go to synagogue if they want and when they want.

dalia

of course not

Hatikvah JPA

Most Jews in Israel are not religious. People of all religions are allowed to practice openly and freely. Proselytizing is forbidden. Zionism is a political movement, not religious.
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kismet

Most Israelis are NOT religious, and Israel is a democracy, which means you go where you want when you want, etc....

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J.guy

There are observant Jews and non observant who don;t go to synagogue in Israel.

pibe

No, not all the Jews in Israel are religious. Most of them are secular.
Of course it's not a law to go to the synagogue, but there are religious festivities that are also national festivities.
Think about Christmas. It is religious, but everybody in a Country where the majority is Christian nobody works in Christmas although you are not Christian. The same thing is in Israel with Jewish festivities.

rescue the gal

no only if they want to go to synagouge

liz

You're crazy if you believe all Jews in Israel are religious, Israel is a secular state and most Jews in Israel are not religious, just like most Jews in America are secular. There is no law about attending synagogue regularly, people have the free will to do what they want.

Marum B

no no no and a big no

Born in the USA

No, many of them don't believe there is a G-d

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No, not all the Jews who live in Israel are religious.

No, there is no law in Israel that says everyone should go to a Synagogue.

JeCanGirl :)

Israel's Jews are not divided into two groups but into four: ultra-Orthodox, religious Zionists, traditional Jews, and secular. Some 8 percent are ultra-Orthodox. These are the strangely (to Western eyes) garbed, black hatted Jews who are featured in all the pictures, despite the fact that they represent only 8 percent of Israel's Jewish population.

Another 17 percent are religious Zionists who normally are lost to view in the studies and the statistics because they are generally lumped with everyone else. The religious Zionists are similar to the modern or centrist Orthodox Jews in the diaspora, partaking of most or all aspects of modern civilization except that they maintain Orthodox observance of Jewish religious law and tradition.

The third group consists of the vast majority of Israeli Jews, some 55 percent, who define themselves as "traditional." These Jews are from many backgrounds but most are Sephardim from the Mediterranean or Islamic worlds. They are people who value traditional Jewish life but who are prepared to modify halakhically required Jewish practices in those cases where they believe it to be personally necessary or attractive to do so. They cover the whole range of belief and observance from people of fundamentalist belief and looser practice to people who have interpreted Judaism in the most modern manner but retain some of its customs and ceremonies.

Many of these "traditional" Jews differ from the Orthodox only because they will drive their cars on the Sabbath, use electricity, watch television, or go to a soccer game or the beach, frequently after attending religious services in the morning and the evening before. Many of the men don tefillin every morning, others cover the spectrum of observance. What is critical is that all are committed to a major religious component in the definition of their Jewishness and the Jewishness of the Jewish state.

The fourth and second smallest group consists of those who define themselves as secular, some 20 percent of the Jewish population. These are people whose beliefs are secular. Their practices, on the other hand, may be quite similar to those of many traditionalists, only they maintain those practices for family and national reasons rather than accepted religious ones. The fact that Jewish religious observance has such a strong national component makes it a major component of Jews' national identity even if they no longer see themselves as believers in the Jewish religion.

MBC

Scroll down and you'll get specific information on that for Israel.

http://adherents.com/Na/Na_410.html#2171

They are more religious than they were back in 1948 but no.

AnLoDeah

No not at all.

Freedom F

A Jew is a person that follows Judaism. So a Jew is a religious person.

Many people living in the ersatz israel are zionists, and are not Jewish. The majority are from Russia and do not follow a religion.

There is no law that you have to go a synagogue.

Brynn

No. Claiming to be "jewish" because you are descended from people who practiced judaism is about as honest as claiming to be christian because your great-grandparents were Episcopalian. It is done to lay claim to the support of ignorant American fundies. There are few actual Jews in Palestine. Most are just fakes. You can't be an atheist and a jew.

Bosco

No. Yet their sole claim to the territory is based on a supposed religious text of unknown provenance.

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