66% of Israeli Jews Are on the Right, Only 19% are on the Left

Peloni:  As usual, Daniel Greenfield strikes the perfect pitch in his analysis.  One point to add to this is that in the coming election Bibi Derangement will play pivotal part in the Left’s strategy of pulling votes from the national camp.

14% identify as far right and 0% as far left

Daniel Greenfield | July 24, 2026

1. As I’ve noted in the past, American Jewish liberalism is an outlier globally. Jews in the UK, Canada and Australia have been drifting center-right, and even further right in France.

2. Israeli Jews are significantly further right. A recent poll from the liberal JPPI shows that 66% of Israeli Jews identify as ‘right’, only 19% as being on the left, and 13% as being in the center.

Further breakdowns show 14% identify as far right, 23% as right, 13% as moderate right, and 9% as center left, 7% as moderate left, 3% as left, and 0% as far left

3% more identify with the right and 3% fewer with the left

The obvious takeaway is that the Left is unpopular in Israel and it very much is. Unfortunately it still controls much of the media and the political establishment which is why the upcoming election is characterized by crazy media attacks on Netanyahu and fake third parties, in typical fashion led by retired generals and technocrats, who sound ‘right-wing’ but are just trojan horses for the Left.

They may get away with it this time, they have before, which will be a disaster for Israel. I’m not Netanyahu’s biggest fan, but there are actual right wing people in his government who represent a majority of the country which otherwise doesn’t get a say.

And that’s why the smear campaigns against them have been relentless.

Why does Israel have a 66% to 19% split. That’s a massive tilt.

The short version is that Israel used to be run by a corrupt leftist government that alienated every successive immigrant group, Holocaust survivors, Middle Eastern Jewish refugees, Russian Jews, etc with its abuses and prejudice, this was followed by the disastrous Oslo deal with Arafat and a policy of enabling Islamic terrorism. So few Israelis trust these Left on economics and social justice, usually its bread and butter, and almost none trust them on security.

There are significant ethnic splits typically, with the left clustering among the old school Ashkenazi families going back to pre-state days and the far right clustering among middle eastern Jewish refugees.

With these kinds of numbers, Israeli politics should be far better than they are. Unfortunately, the Left controls the courts, the legal system, the media, academia and the culture. And overrides decisions made by elected officials on a daily basis (under Trump, we’ve gotten a feel for that in America) and also foists fake third parties on the public because its people can’t win on their own. Combine that with Muslim bloc voting, tensions with the Haredim and large scale corruption, and Israel remains stuck far more to the left than where the public is. But it’s still a reminder of what an aberration American Jewish liberalism is elsewhere.

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  2. People like Caroline Glick have been telling us for years now that the Israeli public vote right but left government. The attempts to modify the system of selecting judges for the Israeli supreme court have been neutered by the high court that insists on selecting their own followers while shooting down any attempt to get a change. I hope that the voters, this time round, will acknowledge Netanyahu’s efforts and vote him in with a large majority. That is the only way to defeat the embedded left. Then, Rafi’s comment may come true too.

    • @dreuveni

      I hope that the voters, this time round, will acknowledge Netanyahu’s efforts and vote him in with a large majority. That is the only way to defeat the embedded left. Then, Rafi’s comment may come true too.

      I agree, but no matter how large a victory the Right might win, the divisions and consequences of making a permanent document guiding the country’s future will prevent the formation of a constitution. I would love to be proven wrong of course, but I very seriously doubt that I will be.

  3. This sounds about right (correct).

    Israel needs a constitution to have a better functioning government (Legislature, Executive, legal system including the courts).

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    • @Rafi

      Israel needs a constitution

      Yes, but this is not feasible. Too many contradicting interests would need to be reconciled. It isn’t even certain that a govt will be formed following the next election. So how might such a constitution be construed?

      • Yes, forming a constitution is a very difficult task!! Yes, forming a government may prove difficult!

        That does not mean Israel does not need a constitution and pointing this out is not correct.

        • @Rafi

          That does not mean Israel does not need a constitution and pointing this out is not correct.

          I didn’t say that it was not correct, just that it wasn’t feasible. The need is everpresent, but satisfying this need will ever return to the goal initiated by Ben Gurion, who intended every age to deal with its needs as needed rather than to set down a written accord which might serve the nation over successive generations.

          • I know the history very well and even more personally than you will know!!

            Question are you consciously looking to argue with me on any and every point. I hope not because to me it is a waste of time and boring? I am not into group think and I am starting to get the impression, that is what you are striving for!

        • @Rafi The Supreme Court said Basic Law was the constitution until they felt restricted by it and then they reversed themselves and said it wasn’t. The problem is jurisdocracy and anti-Zionist left wing elites like Ehud Barak and Gali Baharav-Miara who are ready to plunge the country into civil war to protect this dictatorship because they hate Judaism. In the U.S., the constitution was already in place when the court began to assert its legislative reach in Marbury v Madison. Paul Eidelberg wrote books which contained his proposal for an American system of government that went nowhere for this reason.

          Historically, this seems to be an ancient feud between the Maccabees and the Hellenists that was given new life by the Haskalah and Spinoza.
          Israel as built on compromise between heretofore irreconcilable factions, including the Haredim.

          was the constitution already in place when the court begin to assert its legislative reach in Marbury v Madison

          +7 Yes, the U.S. Constitution was already in place. It was adopted in 1787 and took effect in 1789, whereas Marbury v. Madison was decided fourteen years later in 1803. Additionally, the Court asserted its power of judicial review (its authority to check legislative and executive acts) rather than a legislative reach.Constitutional TimelineThe U.S. Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 and officially went into operation on March 4, 1789.The Judiciary Act of 1789 was passed by the first Congress that same year to set up the federal court system.Marbury v. Madison was argued and decided in February 1803, meaning the foundational supreme law of the land had been active for nearly a decade and a half.The Court’s ActionChief Justice John Marshall did not expand legislative reach; instead, he established judicial review.The Court ruled that a section of the 1789 congressional law conflicted with Article III of the Constitution, proving that the Constitution reigns supreme over regular acts of Congress.If you would like, I can explain:The exact details of the Judiciary Act of 1789How the political conflict between Adams and Jefferson led to the case.

          • paul eidelberg american system of government for israel proposal in what book +4 Paul Eidelberg details his proposals for reforming Israel’s governance through a constitutional model incorporating American checks and balances and Judaic principles in his books Jewish Statesmanship: Lest Israel Fall (2000) and An American Political Scientist in Israel: From Athens to Jerusalem (2010).Core Constitutional ProposalsElectoral Reform: Replaces national proportional representation with individual constituency/district elections to make lawmakers directly accountable to voters.Separation of Powers: Introduces checks and balances by dividing power between the executive and legislative branches rather than a fused cabinet system.Bicameral Legislature: Proposes an upper house in the Knesset filled through regional district elections and grounded in foundational Jewish legal principles.If you would like, I can provide a more detailed breakdown of how Eidelberg contrasts the American founding principles with Israel’s parliamentary structure as outlined in these texts.

            • I don’t care one way or the other about the socialism part but the Zionist argument for exempting the Haredi by this Trotskyist paper makes sense to me. I agree with it.

              AS I SEE IT
              Why Marxists oppose Israel drafting Haredi Jews into its army
              BY SETH GALINSKY
              Vol. 89/No. 41
              November 17, 2025
              Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Tel Aviv Oct. 30 against moves to draft them into the Israel Defense Forces.

              Since Israel’s Supreme Court ruled last year that the longstanding exemption from service was illegal, over 870 Haredi men have been arrested for refusing a draft order. Israel’s parliament is now debating legislation that would allow some exceptions.

              The battle over drafting the Haredim, as the ultra-Orthodox are known, is portrayed in the capitalist media in Israel and the U.S. as a fight between selfish religious fanatics and patriotic Israelis who believe it’s “unfair” that the Haredim don’t carry their share of the “burden” of defending Israel. This dispute has heated up amid Israel’s unfinished war to defeat Hamas.

              But this misses what is really at stake. For Israel to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms it must be for all Jews, without distinction or conditions.

              Israel’s “Law of Return” — which grants Jews the right to seek refuge in Israel — is based on secular criteria, not religious beliefs. Anyone whose parents, grandparents or spouse are Jewish or who has converted to Judaism has an unencumbered right to citizenship.

              This reflects the fact that Jews are an oppressed nationality worldwide.

              During the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews, two out of every three Jews in Europe. They did not decide who to send to the death camps based on religious criteria. All Jews were targeted. Israel came into existence when there was no place else for Jews to go after the imperialist rulers in London and Washington slammed their doors shut to Jews fleeing the Holocaust.

              The origins of many of the ultra-Orthodox Jews were in Poland, where 85% of the Jews were slaughtered. Among the ultra-Orthodox Hasidim, the numbers were higher.

              Jailing Haredi men who refuse to serve in the Israeli army because of their religious belief would send the message that Israel is a refuge for some Jews, not all.

              Haredim men who studied Torah full time were granted exemption from the draft when Israel was founded in 1948. At the time there were roughly 400 ultra-Orthodox Torah students. Since then the Haredim have grown to be 13% to 14% of Israel’s population — more than 1.3 million people — with some 63,000 Haredi men of draft age.

              The debate heated up after Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel, the worst anti-Jewish pogrom since the Holocaust. More than 1,100 Israeli soldiers have died since then in battle with Hamas.

              But this isn’t really about Haredi joining the army. Thousands of Haredi volunteered to join after Oct. 7. And there is an all-Haredi battalion.

              Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu favors keeping the exemption. Meritocratic layers of the middle class in Israel, including parts of the military brass and rival capitalist political parties that want to oust him, use this to foster resentment toward the Haredim and toward him.

              As the worldwide crisis of capitalism worsens and the old imperialist world order unravels, capitalist ruling classes around the world will turn to Jew-hatred as a tool to divide and defeat the working class.

              This is not a Middle East question. Acts of violence against Jews are on the rise, from Europe to the U.S.

              There is no way to eradicate Jew-hatred under capitalism. But the fight to defend Jews today — and to defend the existence of the one country that offers them an unconditional refuge — is decisive for advancing the interests of workers and all the oppressed. It’s a key part of the longer-term fight of the working class to take power out of the hands of the ruling class and open the road to a socialist future. And this is the only way to end Jew-hatred forever.

              https://themilitant.com/2025/11/07/why-marxists-oppose-israel-drafting-haredi-jews-into-its-army/