i24 News – Most Israeli voters don’t want a government that includes chareidi factions such as Shas or United Torah Judaism, according to a poll published by the Hiddush NGO. The findings contrast recent indications that leaders in Israel’s current coalition intend to include UTJ or Shas in a future government as a bid for more allies in parliament.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, head of the Blue and White: New Hope (BWNH) party, said he is the only public figure that could “unite the house” because he has not been “vetoed” by chareidi parties.
Yet, a majority of Gantz’s voters oppose his plan, the poll conducted by Smith Research Institute for Hiddush found.
Over three-fourths – 79 percent – of BWNH voters said they are against the inclusion of chareidi parties in the next coalition government.
An overwhelming 89 percent of Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid voters also disapprove of making concessions to chareidi factions in a government.
The Likud voter base is the most divided on the issue, with 39 percent opposing a government with chareidi parties, despite the likely case of Shas and UTJ being part of a Netanyahu-led government.
Hiddush CEO Ori Regev said the survey’s results conveyed that the Israeli public “wants to be freed from religious coercion, rather than perpetuate it.”
Amid the widespread distaste of a government including chareidi factions, the poll found that 64 percent of undecided voters, and 52 percent of all voters, said they were more likely to vote for a party that would commit itself to promote freedom of religion.
Can you blame them? We too are disgusted with their open continual bickering and fighting between the frum parties themselves. They cause tremendous Chilul Hashem themselves. Everything is the money and power. They don’t even attempt to cover it up. It is so blatant. Nothing to do with Yiddishkeit or Ahavas Yisroel. That’s why so many frum Yidden will not be voting now for these parties. No wonder they cannot get past the same 7 seats for so many years. And now the polls show them dropping to 6.
For shame.
Money for Torah institutions and similar funding that benefits Torah jewry, is not money for the purpose of lining our own pockets. It’s fair amounts expected in a Jewish state to fund everything we hold dear. It’s way less than the amounts funding secular institutions.
You are 100% on the spot!
Until we stop the internal strife and start looking like civilized and unified Bnei Torah, we stand no chance of building any rapport with the increasingly knowledge-deprived secular Jews in Israel
The headline is misleading. There is a big difference between “hating chareidim”, which is not the case by most Israelis, and not wanting chareidi political parties to be part of a governing coalition.
Unconfirmed, fictitious news sources are reporting about one fellow who told told the Matzav website on Wednesday that, “Unfortunately there are some Orthodox Jewish social media sites that aren’t too fond of charedim either.”
“It’s not just a percentage of the secular crowd who dislike us,” he told Matzav, “it’s also some of the non secular news and social media sites.”
“It’s scary,” he added, “because you wouldn’t actually be aware of this sentiment until you actually see it in their web content.”
Attempts by several fictitious news outlets to reach out to the fellow for additional comment were unsuccessful.
“I am out for lunch right now,” the fellow’s voice mail recording message said, “call me back in a few decades.”
What a stupid and misleading headline! (so what else is new here…)
Those voters who vote for Lapid and Ganz are already rabid self-hating Jews, just like the leaders (and other members) of the parties they support. The fact that most of THEM don’t want anything to do with Judaism is not indicative of the public as a whole.
Does this poll disclose the full spread of the people polled? We all know how pollsters skew results by not using an indicative mix of respondents (like the polls here in the US include a much higher percentage of Democrats then republicans as respondents, which skews the results)
(P.S.
For those who don’t know, Yair Lapid was raised on Jew-hatred by his father, the despicable Rasha and self-hating Jew Tomash Lempel AKA Tommy Lapid. That man always lamented having lost his beloved Hungarian heritage because he was a Jew. He constantly mentioned how much he missed not being able to get good-quality Blutwurst (Sausage made of Davar Acher and blood) because the sale of Davar Acher meat is illegal in most Israeli cities. With such a father, it’s no wonder the son became such a Jew-hater)
You selectively omit that hiss father was a holocaust survivor and one time head of Yad VaShem. But fast well in your hate that caused Temple destruction.
Reason it is Likud. We should see progress.
The word for ‘poll’ in Hebrew is ‘סקר’.
‘ויש גורסין ‘שקר’.
Who says they’re wrong? What’s the purpose of Chareidim in the government other than for financial aid and having the government force their education into Chareidi schools. Chareidim do not belong in a secular Gdless government. Period.
In Biayos haZman, Rav Reuven gave multiple conditions that he said must be kept in order to be mattir the severe issurim for frum people to go with the evil ones to that den of heresy and idolatry that is the Zionist parliament.
Of those conditions, how many, if any, are actually being fulfilled?
It’s not a poll. It was published by Chidush NGO. Why not make clear that it was a push poll conducted by an anti-religion organization? I understand it’s a (shameful) I24 article and they wrote this misleading piece, but on this site it should have been titled “Anti-Religion NGO Push Poll Shows.
..,” or something clear and to that effect.