{"id":14681,"date":"2025-03-05T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machon.org.il\/?page_id=14681"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:32:36","slug":"state-of-haredi-society-2024-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/machon.org.il\/en\/state-of-haredi-society-2024-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Haredi Society 2024 Annual Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEitan Regev | Yehudit Miletzky\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Over the past decade, more than 110,000 Haredim have migrated away from core Haredi cities, with 74,000 leaving Jerusalem and 42,000 departing B\u2019nei Brak.<\/p>
This migration does not indicate a\u00a0 shift away from Haredi identity but rather an overflow effect driven by high fertility rates and escalating housing costs.<\/p>
Many have relocated to Israel\u2019s periphery, particularly northern cities such as Haifa, while Beit Shemesh remains an exception, attracting 40,000 new Haredi residents, many of them from Jerusalem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The housing sector has seen a notable shift, with Haredi homeownership rates, which had remained stable at 69% until 2021, dropping by 4% in 2022.<\/p>
This decline is attributed to rising housing prices and increasing mortgage interest rates, which have also driven up monthly mortgage payments by 11%.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Employment trends reveal increasing workforce participation, particularly among Haredi women, whose employment rate surged from 60% in 2014 to 80% in 2024.<\/p>
Male employment has grown more slowly, from 48% to 54% over the same period, though younger men (ages 20-24) have entered the workforce at a higher rate, tripling from 10% to 30% in the past 17 years.<\/p>
Despite these gains, a significant wage gap persists, with Haredi women earning 71% and Haredi men earning just 50% of their non-Haredi Jewish counterparts.<\/p>
Notably, Haredi women now earn 11% more per hour than Haredi men.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In education, the State-Haredi school system, which integrates a full public curriculum within a Haredi framework, has experienced rapid growth.<\/p>
In 2024, enrollment in these schools doubled from 4% to 8% of Haredi students, adding 30 new schools.<\/p>
This trend suggests evolving attitudes toward education and financial pressures that make fully private schools less viable.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Higher education participation is rising, with 14% of Haredi women and 4.2% of Haredi men (ages 25-49) now holding university degrees, up from 4% and 2.4% two decades ago.<\/p>
However, Haredim with degrees continue to earn significantly less than their non-Haredi peers, and the wage gap is widening. Over the past decade, the average monthly salary of Haredi men with degrees has increased by just 4% (to \u20aa19.3k), while their non-Haredi Jewish counterparts have seen a 38% rise (to \u20aa32k).<\/p>
Similar trends are observed among Haredi women, with the earnings gap driven largely by field selection and limited career advancement opportunities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t