The vast majority of Israelis believe that Israel is a good place to live, and most are also satisfied with life in Israel. This is according to a special survey conducted by Israeli organizations in conjunction with the newspaper 'Maariv' ahead of the upcoming Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.
65% of Israelis answered that Israel is a good place to live in, 33% think the opposite, and 2% did not answer. The breakdown of the answers shows that The degree of satisfaction increases with the age of the respondents: 77% of those aged 61 and over compared to 51% of young people up to the age of 29 believe that Israel is a good place to live in.
Despite complaints, most Israelis like living in Israel - survey: The positive perception of life in Israel is more prevalent among the religious (79%) and the ultra-Orthodox (69%). https://t.co/PKVPHDJKDL JPost pic.twitter.com/QTV0Fkmwuc
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These numbers can be compared to a recent poll conducted in the US of similar nature. According to an AP-NORC survey poll released in June, 85% of US adults say that things in the country are headed in the wrong direction, with just 14% believing things are going in the right direction.
@MarkMellman What do you make of the new AP/NORC poll about American attitudes towards the US approach to Israel? I find the results very confusing!
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The positive perception of life in Israel is more prevalent among the religious Jews with 79% and the ultra-Orthodox stand at 69%, compared to 59% of secular Jews.
59% of respondents are generally satisfied with life in Israel, 37% are dissatisfied and another 4% do not know.
Another question examined in the survey regards the degree of personal happiness: "In general, how happy have you been lately?". To this question, it turns out that 15% of Israelis are very happy. While 49% of Israelis have more of a realistic approach to simply being "quite happy".
A total of 64% of Israelis are happy compared to 27% who are not so happy, and 5% who are not happy at all. Directly following the satisfaction with life in the country and the personal happiness index, it turns out that the majority of respondents, 62%, believe that the State of Israel is an existing fact, and only 23% think that it is in real danger.
The final question in the poll included a simple general question, what bothers the Israelis most? 68% of respondents answered that cost of living is their biggest concern. In second and third place came Palestinian terrorism with 32% most troubled by it, and political instability with 12% of those asked being most worried about the constant elections.
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"#optimism in the country is also shared by younger people, itself a vector of #happiness"https://t.co/4lS7y0vxU6
The survey was conducted on a representative sample of the adult population in Israel aged 18 and over, Jews and Arabs alike, and was conducted between September 21-22. The Maximum sampling marginal error is 3.7%.
