About 50% of Jewish Israelis said knowing that family holiday meals would include unvaccinated people could cause them to forgo the festivities, according to a poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute on Wednesday.
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Some 43% of them said it would not affect their decision.
Respondents under 44 were less likely to say they would not attend festive meals for this reason compared to those over 45 – the majority of whom said they would.
Only 77% of Israelis under the age of 50 have received at least one injection of the coronavirus vaccine, compared to 94% of the elderly, according to the Health Ministry.
Almost a quarter (22.4%) of unvaccinated respondents said they were not against vaccination, but had simply not been vaccinated.
Less than a third (29%) said they were concerned that vaccines could harm their health, and about a fifth (21%) said they did not believe vaccines could help prevent infection.
Of the roughly 17% of Israelis who responded that they had not been vaccinated, 44% were under 35, matching national data showing that the country's youngest population has the lowest vaccination rate.
To the question "What score out of 10 would you give the new government for its management of the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic?" the average score was 4.53.
Almost half (49%) of those polled thought that the restrictions imposed by the government on unvaccinated people were not severe enough.
This poll was published a few days before Rosh Hashanah, which begins on the evening of Monday, Sept. 6.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
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