Posted on 04/02/2024 9:38:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The World Happiness Report places Israel as the second happiest country among those under 30 years old.
Despite entering its fifth month of war in Gaza, Israel was recently ranked as the world’s fifth happiest country by the 2024 World Happiness Report, dropping only one place from last year.
Sponsored by the UN, the report is based on a three-year polling average of the results of a happiness measurement survey conducted internationally by the polling company Gallup.
The index measures happiness based on three criterias: life evaluation, positive emotions and negative emotions. In this year’s report, life evaluation measurements fell sharply in Israel, as did the statistics for positive emotions. In fact, Israel was ranked 60th in the negative emotions index this year, compared to 119th in last year’s report.
Even still, among young people (those below the age of 30), Israel is ranked second in the world in this year’s happiness report. Among those over 60 Israel is ranked 18th.
Danny Friedlander, a clinical psychologist and a lecturer at Peres Academic Center told Channel 12 that the analysis of the report reveals that Israel consistently scores high on the index due to the measure that evaluates community support.
He noted that Israelis feel they always have someone to rely on when it comes to their social environment, family and friends.
The expert believes that if the social division that characterized the justice reform protests last year intensifies, Israel’s ranking in the report will begin to drop.
The 2024 report was topped by Finland for the seventh year in a row, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Israel. Rounding up the top 10 are Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Australia.
How can Israel be happy in the midst of this turmoil?
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, countries with no wars, great economies and beautiful people should rank at the top.
All wars aren’t declared.
Of all the industrialized countries, Israel is the only country with a birth rate above replacement.
And all those “happy” countries in Scandinavia are few below replacement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
Those are the successes that the Muslims don’t want their people to see.
All in the power of liberty, rights, freedom and democracy.
Israel is the only democracy in the sea of tyrannical Islamic oppression.
Killing Allah Fubar Screaming Sand Uyghurs always got me happy. Just sayin’
Worked there for two months back in ‘99 - an incredibly cheerful and welcoming people. Go figure.
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