44 Percent Of Israeli Jews Support, 48 Percent Oppose Rabbis' Call Forbidding Rental Of Homes To Arabs
A new survey has revealed that a full 44% of Israeli Jews support a letter issued by leading Israeli rabbis published earlier this month forbidding the sale or rental of properties to non-Jews. The survey reported that 48% of Israeli Jews oppose the rabbis' religious edict.
Report: 44% of Israeli Jews support rabbis' edict forbidding rentals to Arabs
According to the results of a new survey, 48% of Israeli Jews oppose the call to forbid renting or selling property to non-Jews.
By Asaf Shtull-Trauring • Ha’aretz
A new survey has revealed that a full 44% of Israeli Jews support a letter issued by leading Israeli rabbis published earlier this month forbidding the sale or rental of properties to non-Jews. The survey reported that 48% of Israeli Jews oppose the rabbis' religious edict.
The revealing survey was conducted by the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah (PSR).
Dozens of Israel's municipal chief rabbis signed on to the religious ruling, targeted at non-Jewish Arabs, African refugees and migrant workers. The letter came on the heels of a call by the chief rabbi of Safed urging Jews to refrain from renting or selling apartments to non-Jews.
The survey reported that 40% of Israeli Jews support a bill currently being proposed in the Knesset that would allow smaller communities to reject candidates who want to move to the village on the basis of their supposed 'social suitability'. 48% reportedly oppose the bill.
According to the survey, 55% of Israeli Jews support a proposed bill that would require foreign nationals that apply for Israeli citizenship to swear loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic" state. 27% of Israeli Jews object to the requirement.
52% of Israeli Jews oppose a proposed bill that would prohibit women from obscuring their faces in public places. However, 10% of Jews and 3% of Arabs support the law if it only affects Muslims, and 30% of Jews and 9% of Arabs support the law if it is applied across the board.
Interestingly, the survey revealed that more than 70% of Palestinians believe that a majority of the Israeli public supports the aforementioned laws.
Against the Arab League peace plan
The jointly conducted survey was carried out by Professor Yaakov Shamir of the Truman Institute and the Faculty of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Halil Shaqaq, head of the PSR Center in Ramallah. The project received support from the Ford Foundation of Cairo and the Adenauer Foundation of Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Other findings of the survey include that 54% of Israelis support, and 41% oppose, direct talks with Hamas, if that would be necessary to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.
32% of Israelis support, and 61% oppose, the Arab League peace plan, sometimes referred to as the Saudi peace plan. Among Palestinians, 54% support the deal and 42% oppose it.
Among Palestinians, 49% support or strongly support, and 50% oppose or strongly oppose an Israeli evacuation of most of the West Bank, excepting settlement blocs that would consist of 3% of the territory. Among Israelis, 49% support the creation of a Palestinian state on this basis, while 43% oppose it.
In the absence of negotiations, Palestinians prefer to turn to the UN
41% of Palestinians support, and 41% oppose, a negotiated solution to the matter of the Palestinian refugees in which the ability to return to Israel would be limited, but Israel would make a promise of financial compensation. 36% of Israelis support this proposal, while 52% of Israelis oppose it.
In the absence of direct negotiations, 31% of Palestinians prefer to turn to the United Nations Security Council, asking of them to recognize a Palestinian state. The next most-supported response to the absence of negotiations is a renewed call to arms against the State of Israel. 16% of Palestinians each support organizing non-violent struggle, and the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority.
Among Israelis, 54% are worried that they or their relatives could be attacked by Arabs during their everyday routines, while 43% are not worried. Among Palestinians, 75% are worried that they could be attacked, or their property confiscated or house bulldozed, by Israeli forces, while 25% are not worried.
Vox populi has its pitfalls. These are amazing times. Intention, public policy and popular opinion can shift in a millisecond. The pieces of the divine jigsaw puzzle are coming together.
I can guarantee 100% with my life that G-d wants a Messianic Kingdom to reign from Jerusalem in the very near future. People can reach their own conclusions from this regarding how the issue of real estate in the Holy Land should be dealt with. It is crystal clear that the "Should we rent to Arabs or not" question is a perfect microcosm of the current zeitgeist.
Two provocative questions...
Did G-d give us land to share or covet ?
Who should hold ultimate sway and sovereignty over the Temple Mount ?
House for all Nations under a Special Regime anyone...
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Posted by: Adam Neira | December 28, 2010 at 05:43 PM
wow... I hate to say it, but this sounds like the kind of things the German's did to us before the war.
Enough - Let the Rabbanim push views like "you can only rent to decent people" ! (of course that would leave many so-called religions Jews in the cold too). But this racist, biggotry is indecent and not Jewish in any way. What happened to all the biblical laws associated with being decent to the strangers among you ?
I am ashamed to be associated with these people.
Posted by: Al | January 05, 2011 at 11:47 AM