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Do all Jews have a personal connection with Israel?
Nearly all major research studies, including the Pew Research Center’s most recent survey of Jewish Americans, indicate that a significant majority of Jews around the world – but not all — identify as having a personal connection with Israel, including to the nation of Israel, the people of Israel, and Israel as the historic and current center of Jewish religious life.
Nearly half (7.4 million) of the world’s Jewish population resides in Israel. And in the U.S., which has the world’s second-largest Jewish population, more than eight-in-ten Jewish Americans identify as having a personal connection with Israel, with 82% saying that “Caring about Israel is essential or important to what being Jewish means to me.