Israel is happy

Tamar Hermann's excellent "Peace Index" is out again. Some of the findings are surprising:

On the eve of the state of Israel’s 61st Independence Day, despite all the security, economic, social, and political difficulties and despite the gloomy analyses in the media, the Jewish public is in a very good mood, with over 80% defining their personal mood as “very good” or “moderately good.” About two-thirds also assess the mood of the public as a whole as “very good” or “moderately good.” A segmentation of the answers to the questions on personal mood by voting for the Knesset shows that 75% or more of the voters for all the parties define their mood as well as the national mood as “very good” or “moderately good”; the exception is the voters for Torah Judaism, only half (personal) and about one-quarter (national) of whom feel that way.
A segmentation of the data by age, sex, religiosity, and income showed no gaps between the different groups. In other words, statistically at least, what we have here is a significant finding.