Within Just a Decade: Public Trust in the Judicial System Has Crashed Dramatically
CBS data reveals that only 48% of the public express trust in the judicial system - a decline of about 10% compared to 2015 • Among the Haredim, only 13% express trust, compared to 63%…
Assessment
A steep ten year decline in public trust in the judicial system is now quantified by official Central Bureau of Statistics data, with overall confidence dropping to 48 percent. The dramatic gap between secular and Haredi respondents, 63 percent versus 13 percent, suggests the erosion is not uniform but concentrated in specific communities. The question of how much trust the government receives invites comparison and signals that institutional legitimacy may be fracturing along demographic lines.