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Last update - 13:49 21/01/2008 Poll: Only 16% of Israelis back Diaspora input on fate of J'lem By Anshel Pfeffer Tags: Israel, Diaspora, Judaism  Only 16 percent of Israeli Jews think that Diaspora Jewry should be involved in decisions on the future of Jerusalem, according to a poll commissioned by the Shalem Center's Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies. However, most Israeli Jews also oppose leaving the decision solely to the government: Only 5 percent of the 500 respondents thought the prime minister was entitled to decide Jerusalem's fate, and only 13 percent were willing to let the cabinet and Knesset make this choice. Fully 34 percent said it should be made by all Israeli citizens, and 32 percent thought it should be made by all Israeli Jews. Among the 16 percent who said that both Israeli and Diaspora Jews should decide Jerusalem's fate, religious Jews were prominent: Less than 9percent of the secular Israelis chose this option, but the proportion rose to 29 percent among religious Jews. Advertisement The data were presented during the first day of the Herzliya Conference, which was held Sunday in the Knesset. Associates of Professor Yehezkel Dror, president of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, said Sunday that Dror plans to use his speech to the conference to argue that Diaspora Jews should be consulted on such issues, though Israelis should make the final decisions. In his address to Wednesday's conference session on Israel-Diaspora relations, Dror will argue that Israel and the Diaspora are becoming increasingly distant from each other. Existing data already show an erosion in solidarity with Israel among the younger generation of Diaspora Jews, and Dror believes that existing programs are insufficient to reverse this trend, his associates said. Dror, they added, blames this crisis on the Israeli establishment's view that Israel is by definition the center of the Jewish people, and its consequent rejection of the Diaspora. He therefore plans to argue that the role of Diaspora Jews in Israel's affairs should be upgraded: Instead of merely being a source of financial aid, they should become "consultants," his associates said. Related articles: Olmert to American Jewish leaders: I want your voice to be heard on Jerusalem Report to address possible effects of dividing Jerusalem No one in Kadima is asking if J'lem will be divided, just how PM: Must Arab neighborhoods be defined as part of Jerusalem? Bookmark to del.icio.us   Message from space A newly-launched Israeli spy satellite sends Iran a very clear message. Gravediggers' plight Even getting buried in the Gaza Strip has gotten more complicated these days.   1.   HaAretz and its headlines 02:43  |  bubba 21/01/08   2.   Haaretz` spin 03:45  |  Jer 21/01/08   3.   My money gives me a vote! 04:36  |  Gedaliah Goomber 21/01/08   4.   Democracy 04:42  |  Mae 21/01/08   5.   how COOL is that!! this poll is ALL good! 04:55  |  eric 21/01/08   6.   Haaretz can`t even spell Israel 05:05  |  Gili 21/01/08   7.   How cool is that - Diaspora Jews get more votes than Olmert! 05:20  |  Jon 21/01/08   8.   Brothers and sisters, Jews of the Diaspora, we listen to you, to 06:14  |  Avihu 21/01/08   9.   It;s Our Decision Also 06:22  |  Ralph Levy 21/01/08   10.   Stop the left: No one here as care about Arabs. 06:50  |  Alex 21/01/08   11.   They don`t walk the walk 07:03  |  Rowan Berkeley 21/01/08   12.   Israel will take all that can be gotten away with, as usual 07:50  |  Natallie Durson 21/01/08   13.   Surprised it is as high as 16%... 08:17  |  Esther 21/01/08   14.   Giving money to Israel 08:24  |  Gilad 21/01/08   15.   Not special for Secular 08:44  |  Shmuel 21/01/08   16.   Israelis have lost their sense of reality 09:37  |  Leona 21/01/08   17.   # 5 got news for you ralph in the USA 09:46  |  eric 21/01/08   18.   Shmuel the divider 09:50  |  Iz Ray Leigh 21/01/08   19.   NO To Diaspora Input 10:00  |  MB 21/01/08   20.   ITS Only Israelis whose lives are on the line with each decision 10:39  |  PETER SM 21/01/08   21.   To Iz Ray Leigh 11:01  |  Shmuel 21/01/08   22.   5 % 11:23  |  Ralph 21/01/08   23.   Iz Ray Leigh - Shmuel the divider 11:34  |  Gilad 21/01/08   24.   Exclude Jewish Lands and Jerusalem from Peace Process 11:40  |  Joseph E . 21/01/08   25.   No, Leona, Europe and America do not finance Israel. If that were 12:20  |  Natan 21/01/08   26.   #16 Leona 12:43  |  Axel 21/01/08   27.   US Congress has friendly input, they hear their US constituents. 13:12  |  Keep Jerusalem Undiv 21/01/08   28.   #4 Mae 13:36  |  * BEN JABO 21/01/08   29.   #12 NUTallie - For that matter, nobody cares what U say 13:41  |  * BEN JABO 21/01/08   30.   Shmuel and `the secular Israeli` 13:51  |  Iz Ray Leigh 21/01/08   31.   OF COURSE - WHAT ELSE SHOULD IT BE??? 14:05  |  B`Galil 21/01/08   32.   Iz ray Leigh 14:33  |  Shmuel 21/01/08   33.   If they care so much, why have the chosen to live elsewhere 14:49  |  MAN 21/01/08   34.   Shmuel good luck to you. You can be a Jew anywhere 15:34  |  Iz Ray Leigh 21/01/08   35.   Many American Jews want Jerusalem united... 15:53  |  Saul 21/01/08   36.   not surprised that esther is surprised 15:57  |  peter 21/01/08   37.   # 29 BEN lol loved it!!!!!! 16:51  |  Petra 21/01/08   38.   # 33 man if they`re there, be thankful 16:58  |  Petra 21/01/08   39.   # 31 B`Galil Agreed but, will Israelis devide Jerusalem? 17:01  |  Petra 21/01/08   40.   # 27 AMEN AND IGNORE BUSH AND THE SAUDIS. 17:03  |  Petra 21/01/08   41.   Diaspora Jews have a very false sense of power 17:29  |  Israeli 21/01/08   42.   44:To Israeli 17:47  |  Yaron 21/01/08   43.   #33 total nonesence 18:55  |  smarter then #33 21/01/08   44.   to 3 Shape up 19:02  |  Israel 21/01/08   45.   42 19:05  |  Israel 21/01/08   46.   Israelis are on the front lines 19:33  |  peter 21/01/08   47.   #41 Israeli - don`t forget American Jewish Protekzia 21:19  |  * BEN JABO 21/01/08   48.   #41 Israeli 21:23  |  Jer 21/01/08   49.   Armchair Zionists Should Move to Israel 21:42  |  Proud Israeli 21/01/08   50.   Re Jer #48 21:55  |  Esther 21/01/08   51.   Re Peter #36 22:05  |  Esther 21/01/08   52.   Jer too right 23:00  |  Iz Ray Leigh 21/01/08   53.   #49 Proud Israeli 01:06  |  * BEN JABO 22/01/08   54.   Israelis don`t have the guts the founders of Israel had, Jews in 01:32  |  J 22/01/08   55.   Israeli arrogance never ceases to amaze 01:51  |  Moshe 22/01/08   56.   For lefties to digest-a better time it was. 01:57  |  Mark Katzman 22/01/08   57.   Diaspora shouldnt vote 03:46  |  Dov 22/01/08   58.   Disapora input on Jerusalem 04:05  |  Mark Jeffery Koch 22/01/08   59.   Dispora input OK when you agree, not OK otherwise! 04:54  |  Shlomo 22/01/08   60.   Israel and Jerusalem is for Jews not for "Israelis" 07:40  |  Mark Hamil 22/01/08   61.   JPPI speaks for diaspora -- but hires none of them 08:45  |  Serge 22/01/08

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