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reality. According to Tal Kaspin’s excellent
statistical analysis on the news site Davar, we
can see that there is a direct connection
between economic status (class) and party
voting. And in 2021’s Israel there is still a

connection between class and one’s ethnic and
religious identities. Therefore, there isn’t much
reason to celebrate. The Likud party, with all of
its troublesomeness, is currently the
representative of the Israeli middle class.

Among the cities and towns with middle-range
socioeconomic ranking (Tax brackets 4-7, with 4

being Yerucham and 7 being Rishon L’Zion),
Likud is the biggest party with almost one-third
of the votes. If you look at the core parties of
this new coalition (Yemina, Yesh Atid, Blue &
White, etc) you will see that they begin to lead
the votes only in the cities and towns with Tax

Brackets 8 and up (for example, 8 is Ramat Gan,
9 is Ramat Hasharon, 10 is Kfar Shmaryahu). If
you look at the poorer half of Israel, from Tax
brackets 1-5 (1 being Rahat, 5 Migdal Haemek),
the coalition’s support gets worse. Around 755
of the poorer half of Israel voted for the parties
that will be in the opposition (Likud, the Haredi
parties, Religious Zionism, and the Arab parties).
This means that the “change” coalition does not