Haredi Attitudes Survey (2025): Summary Report

The 2025 Haredi Attitudes Survey presents a comprehensive empirical portrait of contemporary ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel, exploring how its members navigate the tension between religious identity and civic belonging. Conducted among 429 respondents from all major Haredi subgroups, the survey examined attitudes toward education, employment, military service, political representation, and collective identity. Findings depict a society marked by bounded pragmatism: gradual behavioral adaptation without ideological rupture. Economic participation and professional education are increasingly accepted, driven by necessity rather than by ideological change. Core studies and male academic education remain sensitive identity boundaries, while female higher education has become normatively accepted. Opposition to military conscription remains widespread and morally grounded, viewing Torah study as an equivalent national contribution. Support for adapted service is highly limited, mainly to younger, modern, and more integrated respondents, with rabbinic authority continuing to define permissible compromise. In the domain of identity and belonging, most respondents define themselves as conservative yet acknowledge collective change towards moderna. A large segment locates itself between conservatism and modernity, signaling hybrid identities that reinterpret change as continuity. Political attitudes mirror this moral logic—trust in existing parties is moderate, but there is cautious openness to new “national Haredi” frameworks. Together, the data illustrate a community balancing adaptation and preservation through meaning reconstruction rather than ideological reversal. The Haredi public does not deny change—it reframes it as fidelity. In doing so, it offers a vivid case of collective moral regulation under social pressure, exemplifying how identity systems sustain coherence through reinterpretation rather than transformation.