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(IsraelNN.com) A new study released Tuesday suggests US Jews are maintaining their strong ties to Israel.

According to Theodore Sasson, Charles Kadushin, Leonard Saxe of Brandeis University in Boston, recent reports in Jewish and Israeli pointing towards diminishing support for Israel amongst young Diaspora Jews are false. In fact, they say support for Israel has remained steady since at least 1994.

"Between 1994 and 2005, the proportion (of survey respondents) feeling close to Israel increased by 11 percents, from 66 to 77 percent of the sample," they wrote. "Between 2006 and 2007, it declined by 7 percent. For the period as a whole, the spread between those indicating 'close' and 'distant' increased by a modest eight percent. Given the reported margin of error in these surveys, this is close to being a flat response."