More than two-thirds of the respondents also said they eat only Kosher-for-Passover foods during the seven-day holiday even though almost 44% of them described themselves as secular.
Thousands of new immigrants celebrated Passover at large seders held at absorption centers across Israel. In Kiryat Gat, 300 news immigrants held a seder in a giant tent set up in the yard of the absorption center.
Chabad-Lubavitch organized seders across the globe as well, including the world's largest seder in Katmandu, Nepal.
Another program, called "Yahad B'seder" (a play on words meaning both "together we are OK" and "together at the seder") provided hundreds of lone soldiers, students and new immigrants with invitations to attend seders at the homes of Israelis in their town. It was organized by the Jewish Agency, which also sent Passover haggadahs in English, French, Spanish and Russian to hundreds of small Jewish communities around the globe, including several in Malta, Sweden, Italy, France and Uzbekistan.
Ethiopian immigrants at the Jewish Agency absorption center in Kiryat Yam (near Haifa) prepared for their first Passover in Israel at a demonstration seder where they learned the laws and customs of the festival.
Newly immigrated Jews from Ethiopia attending an explanatory mock-seder ahead of the holiday.
(Photos: Jewish Agency)