Israelis across political and religious lines are concerned about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans. An AP-NORC poll shows they consider support for Israel less crucial to their Jewish identity than older adults. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Itai Nixon, who leads the diaspora department for Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, said: "It's extremely important to us. We're the state of the Jewish people, not just Israelis."
Lesley Sachs, who has protested the current Israeli government and chairs the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, also considers a close relationship with diaspora Jews a "strategic asset" for both Israel and Jews worldwide. She is greatly concerned about diaspora Jews losing the sense that Israel can be a homeland for them, especially as rising antisemitism targets them regardless of political and religious affiliations.
"That was always really, really important that everybody around the world, especially after the Holocaust, knows that there is a country that will always take them," Sachs said in her synagogue in Tel Aviv. "This is already a few generations after, and this is less prominent in their DNA. And I think that this is really a failure o"