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In Israel about 15% of the Jews are religious. The rest celebrate Jewish holidays, perform only the basic Jewish traditions, but live non-religious daily lives. Many of them don’t believe in any God.
In most families, including my own, it was the Holocaust that changed that. Many very religious Jews stood paralized after the horrors of the Nazis and could not go on beiliving there is a God after what happened. After all, I am writing to you on Saturday morning …
Israel is run by non-religious Jews, and therefore the argument that “God favors us etc.” is not practical.
On the other hand, the percentage of very religious Palestinians must be very high (I don’t want to write a number because I really don’t have anything to base it on, but if turns out to be 80% I wouldn’t be surprised). Furthermore – inside Israel, the Muslims are becoming more and more religious. Lately a Muslim I work with who was practically non-religious started “acting religious” – wearing mroe religious cloth, saying more religious sentences etc. The religious Muslims parties are getting pretty strong lately in other countries around, including Egypt, and that’s bad news for all of us …
