Israeli Attitudes to Religion and State

Question/Issue
% Agreeing

(Definite and yes)

Should yeshiva students be drafted? 90%
Should Army food be kosher?

78%

Should food in public kitchens be kosher?

71%

Should religious girls be drafted?

70%

Should movie theaters be open on the sabbath?

67%

Should public transportation operate on the sabbath?

63%

Should religion and state be separated?

42%

Should there be civil marriage in Israel?

39%

Should kashrut certification be conditioned on other mitzvot?

22%

Source: National survey of Hebrew-Speaking Israelis, 1991-1993, reported in Shlomit Levy et al., Beliefs, Observances and Social Interaction among Israeli Jews (Jerusalem: Louis Guttman Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, 1993).