Even as Minister of Housing and Construction Ariel Atias asserts that separate towns should be built for haredim (ultra-orthodox), or else they will "take over" secular neighborhoods, a new survey by Geocartography Knowledge president Avi Degani on the haredi community and secular attitudes toward it found that most haredim indeed prefer living separately from secular Jews.
The survey found that 61% of haredim prefer living in segregated communities, 43% do not agree with this, and 9% expressed no opinion.
"Most haredim tend to see it as advantageous to them to live settlements in segregated from the general Israeli public, in pure haredi towns," said Degani.
43% of the general public do not agree that haredim should live in separate towns, 48% agree, and 9% expressed no opinion.
