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Secularism isn't weakening in Israeli just because of demographics – it's also a matter of ideological abandonment. Sooner or later the religious-Haredi majority will establish a government in its image. What will be the fate of the secular community in a state with a religious majority?
The data published on the Education Ministry's website leaves no room for doubt. A majority of the Jewish children studying in Israeli elementary schools today are either religious Zionists or ultra-Orthodox. This trend is clear and unequivocal. The secular community's great days as a majority have passed; it is marching inexorably down the slope of the graph toward a new reality in which it becomes a minority.
