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Tuesday, April 07, 2020 

Israelis are satisfied with government's Coronavirus handling, but Haredis not quite as much

The Jerusalem Post reports that overall public opinion is impressed with how the Netanyahu government's handled the Coronavirus outbreak issues. But the Haredi public isn't as pleased:
Israelis are overwhelmingly impressed with the way that Israel, under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership is handling the coronavirus crisis, a survey by the Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute found Tuesday.

However, the ultra-Orthodox sector showed a significant decline in trust for Netanyahu in the latest survey, the third in a new series of bi-weekly surveys of the national mood under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Or Anabi, a researcher at the Guttmann Center at the Israel Democracy Institute, said the decline from 89% approval to 71% was the result of the government shutdown of Bnei Brak and other haredi neighborhoods, as well as the fact that Netanyahu did not make any public statement defending haredim from public criticism of the ways they have handled the situation. President Reuven Rivlin and several health officials have denounced such criticisms.

When asked "Relative to what you’ve heard about other countries, what grade would you give the State of Israel for the way it tackles the coronavirus challenge?" the average score was 7.2 out of 10.

Regarding Netanyahu himself, 53.9% said they trusted his leadership in the crisis, just a bit lower than the 57.4% recorded a few days earlier. Anabi noted that the high level of support was somewhat surprising. "If you would have said two months ago that Bibi would shut down the entire country and the nation would be supporting him, no one would have believed you," he said.
It's apparent there's a certain segment out there in the Haredi enclaves whose indoctrination with tribal influences makes it hard for them to recognize the seriousness of the illness we're facing here. That's why remaining in an uninformed state is dangerous, because it makes one dreadfully selfish and unable to comprehend the importance of science. Something that's got to change, sooner or later.

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