ISRAEL HAYOM
Patriotism sky high in Israeli high schools, poll finds
by Baruch Ron
April 13, 2016

Israeli high school students have a strong patriotic sentiment, a recent Israel Hayom poll shows. The poll was conducted by New Wave Research on behalf of Israel Hayom’s weekend political supplement between March 27 and March 30, using a random representative sample of308 Jewish students currently in grades 11 and 12, with a maximum sampling error of 5.7%…Some 85% said they loved Israel, and 89% said they saw their future in Israel. The popularity of the Israel Defense Force was also evident: 88% said they planned on enlisting, and more than 50% said they believed the IDF was the most moral military. Some 65% endorsed the saying, “It is good to die for our country,” attributed to Zionist icon Joseph Trumpeldor. READ MORE