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Most Israeli Jews support war against Iran, while most Israeli Arabs oppose it, survey reveals

The survey, conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute, also revealed that most Jewish Israelis feel safe during the war, while most Arab Israelis feel unprotected.

People rush to a public shelter in the city of Ramla after a siren warning of incoming missiles fired toward Israel amid the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, March 9, 2026.
 Illustration of Israeli public support for military action in Iran, June 17, 2025.

Public support for Iran strikes high among Jewish Israelis, deeply divided from Arab Israelis

Girls walk on the outskirts of the Bedouin city of Rahat, southern Israel

IDI: Stark disparities in shelters, protective structures for Arab vs. Jewish localities

Olim from North America arrive on a special " Aliyah flight" to the Ben Gurion airport

Jewish population increases by 100,000 this year, to 15.8 million worldwide


Overpopulation – really?

Since when has the Jewish people had to play by the rules of other societies?

Children get close to the land on Tu Bishvat, 2005

What are the most popular Jewish baby names in Israel?

From Avi to Yosef, biblical to modern and everything in between.

Babies (Illustrative)

Report: Only 26,200 Holocaust survivors will be living in Israel by 2035

The report found that at the end of 2016 there were some 186,500 Holocaust survivors living in Israel.

A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

Harvest for the World

The Jerusalem Post

Racing toward disaster: Israel's unsustainable population bomb

There was a time when having a large family in Israel may have been a patriotic act.

An athlete runs with an Israeli flag during the fifth international Jerusalem Marathon, March 13, 2015.

Haredi, Arab populations grow in Jerusalem as overall growth declines

Approximately 18,000 residents moved out of Jerusalem in 2015, while 8,200 ultra-Orthodox and 7,800 Arabs moved in.

A haredi in Jerusalem

Anti-Semitism in the Armenian press: “Driving forces of treacherous hatred”

The Jerusalem Post

On Israel's 69th birthday, population reaches 8.68 million

The country is rapidly approaching the tipping point where the majority of the world’s Jews will be living in Israel.

A baby sits in front of an Israeli flag

Now is the time for Israel and American Jewry to work together

What a bitter irony to live in a world in which Israel is the one country in which a Jew does not have the freedom to express his or her Judaism.

Western Wall

Lies, damn lies and demographics: Are Jews now a minority between the river and the sea?

Israeli statisticians bemoan "inflated" Palestinian figures, which suggest Arabs outnumber Jews across Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Jewish youth gather outside Damascus gate on 'Jerusalem Day,' May 17, 2015.