Nearly 70 percent of Jews in Israel do not eat bread during the seven-day Passover holiday, according to a Market Watch poll. People with higher incomes tend to be less interested in observing the commandment not to eat leavened bread during Passover, when Jews celebrate their freedom from bondage in Egypt. During the Exodus from Egypt, Jews did not have time to wait for the bread to rise, but Torah scholars also consider bread to symbolize luxuries that can lead a person to being enslaved to them.
The survey also showed that university graduates were less observant, with only 57 percent saying they would not eat bread during Passover.