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A man wearing an Israeli flag prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 17, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 9, 2019, 7:18 am

Israeli morality informed more by religion, laws than by Western values – survey

Marking Independence Day, JPPI index tests perceptions of what makes a ‘real Israeli,’ evaluates religious practice

By Marissa Newman

The Mauthausen prisoner band playing as inmates are taken to their death, 1942. (Courtesy Claims Conference)

May 2, 2019, 6:07 am

Most Austrians don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey finds

A study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day shows ‘appalling lack of knowledge’ about the genocide even while Austrians overestimate their country’s role in saving Jews

By Yaakov Schwartz

Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, and Orly Ades, the committee's director general, seen on February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 27, 2019, 12:47 am

Central Elections Committee: No anonymous electioneering via SMS messages

In response to petition by Yisrael Beitenu against Meretz, Judge Hanan Melcer also rules that SMS surveys must include all parties expected by polls to win at least 1% of vote

By Sue Surkes

One of a six-panel series depicting different parts of Toronto where Jews lived and frequented Jewish restaurants over the years, painted for the exhibition by Toronto artist Ian Leventhal. (Courtesy)

March 15, 2019, 2:16 pm

First survey of Canadian Jewry shows lower assimilation, intermarriage than US

Growing Canadian community is much more affiliated, Jewishly educated and cohesive than its American neighbor. Is the country’s history of anti-Semitism the key?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Likud supporters taking part in a straw poll at an event for party faithful in Eilat on January 10, 2018. (Flash90)

January 13, 2019, 4:13 am

Likud backers say Netanyahu should not resign if indicted

Only one in five of respondents to straw poll at convention of party supporters think prime minister should step down if criminal charges brought against him

By TOI staff

A Palestinian Muslim woman walks by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, on June 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

December 10, 2018, 3:25 am

New poll shows strong anti-Arab sentiment among Israeli Jews

Intolerance toward non-Jewish minority highest among religious respondents; survey commissioned by Channel 10 to parallel CNN poll on European anti-Semitism

By Tamar Pileggi

Generation Z, those born after 1996, are confident about their tech skills but unsure about their readiness for work, research commissioned by Dell Technologies shows. (nd3000; iStock by Getty Images)

November 21, 2018, 1:37 pm

As Generation Z enters workforce, study reveals they are tech savvy yet insecure

A new global research commissioned by Dell Technologies quizzed more than 12,000 high school and college students in 17 countries about their outlook on tech and jobs

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump stops to talk to the media before walking across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, October 22, 2018, to board Marine One helicopter for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland., en route to Houston. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

October 23, 2018, 10:18 pm

Most Israeli men support Trump’s critique of #MeToo — survey

53% agree it’s a ‘scary time for young men,’ compared with 36% of women; more Jews support anti-sexual harassment campaign than Arabs, more seculars back it than religious

By Michael Bachner

Parcels are processed and prepared for dispatch at the Amazon.com fulfillment center in Amazon.com MPX5 fulfillment center on November 17, 2017 in Castel San Giovanni, Italy. (Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images via JTA)

August 16, 2018, 4:09 am

With Hebrew survey, Amazon hints at Israel entry

Polls targeting Israeli consumers appear to confirm earlier reports that internet retailer is looking to open a local shipping center

By JTA and TOI staff

Illustrative: Nazi-themed election graffiti was found in the upstate New York town of Wellsville on the day that Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election, Nov. 9, 2016. (Twitter via JTA)

June 21, 2018, 9:57 am

NY survey finds widespread harassment of Jews and other minorities

80 percent of Jewish New Yorkers say they’re bothered by property damage targeting their religion; more observant respondents report increase in anti-Semitic encounters

By JTA

The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

April 12, 2018, 5:00 pm

Poll: Most Americans believe Holocaust could happen again

Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was

By Sue Surkes

Illustrative: Doctors at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem performing surgery, Jerusalem, March 5, 1990. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

March 20, 2018, 12:55 pm

Israeli parents want kids to be doctors; lawyers, not so much; cops, no way

Survey shows parents favor careers in tech or engineering, not keen on children becoming police officers, rabbis or entertainers

By Sue Surkes

Illustrative: Arab Israeli students at the campus of Givat Ram at Hebrew University, on the first day of the new academic year, October 26, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

March 7, 2018, 3:15 pm

Support for coexistence plunging among Jewish and Arab Israelis

Survey finds recognition of Israel’s right to exist down 7% among Arabs, Jewish acceptance of Arabs as equal citizens down 8%

By Michael Bachner

February 22, 2018, 7:15 am

Israel seen as slightly more corrupt in latest global index

Watchdog finds Jewish state slips two points; is among least corrupt countries in Mideast, among more corrupt in developed world

By Raoul Wootliff

An illustrative photo of Israeli reserve soldiers take part in a training drill in Baf Lachish army base in southern Israel, on December 22, 2016. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

December 5, 2017, 9:32 pm

Settlements fail to make the grade on supplying combat conscripts to IDF

7 of 10 high schools with highest contributions to the army’s ranks of fighters and officers are religious

By Sue Surkes