A new survey has found that a record 57% of Israeli respondents identify themselves as Jewish before identifying as Israeli — up sharply from 34% in the previous year’s equivalent survey and the highest figure recorded in the ten years that the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry has conducted its annual Diaspora Index.

The 2026 Diaspora Index — Public Attitudes Toward the Relationship Between Israel and World Jewry found that 87% of Israelis say they are proud to be Jewish and that Jewish identity is important to them, a figure that has risen over the past two years.

On the question of Diaspora Jewry, 94% of Israeli respondents said they expect Jews around the world to stand with Israel during wartime. The survey also found growing concern among Israelis about intermarriage and assimilation as threats to the future of the Jewish people.

The report characterizes the trend as a process of “identity consolidation” — a deepening of Jewish national identity alongside a growing sense of shared peoplehood, accompanied, however, by a parallel belief that the State’s primary obligations run to its own citizens rather than to Diaspora communities. The survey noted a decline in the degree of responsibility Israelis feel the government should bear toward Jews abroad.

President Yitzchak Herzog, presenting the report, said the findings underscore “the importance of strengthening and maintaining the deep connection among the Jewish people across the world.”