{"id":515823,"date":"2026-06-29T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/515823\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:48:11","slug":"new-idi-analysis-maps-how-religion-continues-to-shape-israeli-voting-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/515823\/","title":{"rendered":"New IDI analysis maps how religion continues to shape Israeli voting patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Religious identity remains a strong indicator of political affiliation in Israel, with support for coalition and opposition parties closely tracking voters’ religious self-identification, according to a new Israel Democracy Institute<\/a> (IDI) analysis.<\/p>\n

The IDI analyzed responses from more than 12,000 Jewish adults collected across 20 surveys conducted between November 2022 and October 2023, examining how Israelis who identify as haredi, religious, traditional-religious, traditional non-religious, or secular voted in the 2022 Knesset elections.<\/p>\n

The findings reveal a clear correlation between religiosity and political alignment. Among haredi voters, 97% supported parties that would go on to form the governing coalition, compared with 80% of national-religious voters and 66.5% of traditional voters. In contrast, 74% of secular voters backed parties aligned with the opposition.<\/p>\n

While the relationship between religion and political affiliation remained largely stable compared to the previous election, the study identified several notable shifts between 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n

The most significant change was the expansion of the Religious Zionist-Otzma Yehudit<\/a> alliance, which broadened its appeal beyond its traditional religious base.<\/p>\n

Among national-religious voters, support for the alliance rose from 30% in 2021 to 45% in 2022, while its share of traditional and secular voters also increased substantially.<\/p>\n

The shift coincided with the dissolution of Naftali Bennett’s<\/a> Yamina party, whose former supporters largely migrated to Religious Zionist-Otzma Yehudit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Likud also strengthened its position among traditional voters, increasing its support from 39% to 46.5%, while Yesh Atid expanded its backing among secular Israelis from 31% to 39%.<\/p>\n

By contrast, National Unity’s support among secular voters declined from 18% to 13%, while Labor and Meretz together fell from 19% to 16% of the secular vote.<\/p>\n

Overall, as voters become more religious, they are increasingly likely to support parties aligned with the governing coalition, while secular Israelis continue to overwhelmingly favor opposition parties.<\/p>\n

Although individual parties gained and lost support between the 2021 and 2022 elections<\/a>, the broader relationship between religiosity and political affiliation has stayed consistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Religious identity remains a strong indicator of political affiliation in Israel, with support for coalition and opposition parties…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[147752,49,4410,154561,12184,85,46,236340,21141,953,236339,43,26379],"class_list":["post-515823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israeli-elections","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-elections","tag-elections-2022","tag-haredi","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2021","tag-likud","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-national-religious","tag-news","tag-yesh-atid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}