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Former ''Haaretz'' (2019) reported that Jewish men from Russia who were [[circumcised]] in Israel now [[Regret men| regret their decision]] to be circumcised.<ref>{{REFnews |title=They Felt Pressured to Get Circumcised After Moving to Israel. They Now Regret It |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-12-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/they-felt-pressured-to-get-circumcised-after-moving-to-israel-they-now-regret-it/0000017f-f16f-d8a1-a5ff-f1efdbad0000 |last=Glazer |first=Hilo |init= |author-link= |last2= |init2= |author2-link= |publisher=Haaretz |website= |date=2019-12-07 |accessdate=2024-03-26 |format= |quote=“I didn’t take into account that I would be losing feeling or that sex would be less good. Even after I noticed the damage, it took me time to make the connection. It came up in conversations with the woman who is today my wife and who by training is a psychologist and a sexologist – and not a Jew, by the way. When we first started dating, she asked me why I had done it, and I told her. Since then she laughs at me occasionally and says that if I hadn’t undergone that nonsense, I would have greater enjoyment.”}}</ref> Remennick (2021) reported lingering [[trauma]] among former Soviet Jews who were [[circumcised ]] in Israel ad who now regret their decision for both aesthetic and sexual reasons.<ref>{{REFjournal
}}</ref> ''Haaretz'' (2019) reported that Jewish men from Russia who were [[circumcised]] in Israel now [[Regret men| regret their decision]] to be circumcised.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=They Felt Pressured to Get Circumcised After Moving to Israel. They Now Regret It
|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-12-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/they-felt-pressured-to-get-circumcised-after-moving-to-israel-they-now-regret-it/0000017f-f16f-d8a1-a5ff-f1efdbad0000
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|quote=“I didn’t take into account that I would be losing feeling or that sex would be less good. Even after I noticed the damage, it took me time to make the connection. It came up in conversations with the woman who is today my wife and who by training is a psychologist and a sexologist – and not a Jew, by the way. When we first started dating, she asked me why I had done it, and I told her. Since then she laughs at me occasionally and says that if I hadn’t undergone that nonsense, I would have greater enjoyment.”
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The population of '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is nearly 10,000,000. Jews constitute 73 percent, Muslims constitute 18 percent and the balance is of various other faiths. Of the Jews, 49 percent self-identify as secular.
== Circumcision in Israel ==
The [https://www.pediatrics.org.il/english/ Israeli Ambulatory Paediatric Association ] (2012) said "that direct oral-genital suction, known as ''[[Metzitzah b'peh| metzitzah b’peh]]'', should not be performed during [[Brit Milah| Jewish ritual circumcision]]."<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Israeli pediatric association calls for end to circumcision-related rite
|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-pediatric-association-calls-for-end-to-circumcision-related-rite/
}}</ref>
|last=Remennick
|first=Larissa
|journal=Cult Health Sex
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|date=20222021-0501-29
|volume=24
|issue=5
|DOI=10.1080/13691058.2021.1879272
|accessdate=2022-10-14
}}</ref>
* [[Bruchim]]
* [[Judaism]]
* [[Theodor Hertzl]]