The polling company ‘Direct Falls’ this evening (Saturday) conducted a survey conducted among the ultra-Orthodox society in the background of the economists’ preoccupation with the Ministry of Finance on the issue of ultra-Orthodox employment.
The company says that the Ministry of Finance is planning important plans, but those that are not relevant to the future that awaits us. In Direct Falls, the ultra-Orthodox society has been researching in depth for the past two years, and tonight
Let’s start with the bottom line: about 78,960 ultra-Orthodox men of working age do not work at all. They constitute only 1.85% of the 4.2 million people who make up the labor force in Israel. Many of these ultra-Orthodox are married, and about 89% of their spouses do work, most of them full-time and at a higher percentage than the national average, so these are families based on a single breadwinner in the family.
“How did we arrive at these results?”, The company says, “In recent months, we have conducted field studies that included an in-depth mapping of the entire ultra-Orthodox population in Israel, down to the level of cities and neighborhoods.”
According to the data, the ultra-Orthodox population in Israel numbers about 1,285,000, which is about 13.5% of the country’s population.
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As part of comprehensive in-depth studies that included 2,500 samples from all ultra-Orthodox groups and sectors, around a wide range of many public and commercial issues, some of the data related to ultra-Orthodox employment we present tonight, as part of the extensive work on the issue in recent weeks:
The vast majority of the ultra-Orthodox (70.1%) are young people up to the age of 25, who are considered below the age of employment in Israel (the age of employment according to the CBS is calculated from the age of 25).
The ultra-Orthodox men of working age number about 172,000 people, with 54.3% of them working full-time or part-time and only 45.7% of this section (about 79,000 ultra-Orthodox men as such) study full-time.
In the ultra-Orthodox society there are four main factions: Hasidim, Lithuanians, Sephardim and others. Of these factions, the high percentage of learners focuses mainly on the Lithuanian sector, and this is also the sector in which women work at a higher percentage even than the employment rate of women among the entire population in Israel. The Lithuanians have chosen a reversal of roles in the family and they are also applying their ideology in practice, which advocates ‘Hamash’ = “living from what is there”.
It should be noted that the ultra-Orthodox society also spends the third decade of its life (ages 20 to 29) studying, but as we age, the percentage of unemployed decreases, and all this before we expand on the changes in the younger ultra-Orthodox generation (ages 25 to 35). Academic studies and work are growing all the time. ”
The polling company concludes: “This is just the tip of the iceberg of the revolution that is taking place in ultra-Orthodox society. “To sum up, the finance officials, fashionably late, are trying to offer solutions that were important perhaps a decade ago – but are becoming irrelevant in the coming years.”