This tracker follows three levels of attachments of US Jews to Israel: the practical level – travel; the emotional level – how close to Israel they feel; and the philosophical level – how essential Israel is to Jewishness. You can read some background on the three levels of closeness (or distancing) from Israel in this study, where we call these levels “emotional,” “cognitive,” and “behavioral”.
Note that the numbers are taken from several sources, not all of which use the exact same wording as they ask the questions. Also note that in some cases we combined answers to make the graph comprehensible (for example: agree and somewhat agree, or visited once and visited more than once, etc).
No *: AJC Survey of Jewish American opinion
* Pew: portrait of Jewish Americans
** Cohen Center
*** NJPS 1990, 2000
No *: AJC Survey of Jewish American opinion
* Pew: Portrait of American Jewry. “Emotional attachement, very, somewhat, not very, not at all”
** Cohen Center, sense of connection, very much, somewhat, little, not at all
No *: AJC Survey of Jewish American opinion
* PEW: Portrait of Jewish Americans. Essential part of being a Jew, important not essential, not important
** Cohen Center, agree, disagree
