Abstract The Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWA; Altemeyer, 1988) was translated into Hebrew to test for cross-cultural validity in an Israeli context and to evaluate Ray's (1985) claim that the RWA measures only conservatism. Seven hundred eight Jewish Israeli undergraduate students (42.9% men and 57.1% women) whose mean age was 24 years, completed the RWA and a demographic questionnaire that included items on political affiliations and religiosity. The supporters of religious parties scored highest, followed by the supporters of right-wing parties, the Labour party, and the left-wing parties, with statistically significant differences between the four groups. The differences between the last three groups remained statistically significant when analysis was performed only on the secular subjects. The secular participants scored the lowest, followed by the traditional participants, and the orthodox participants. These findings confirmed the construct validity of the RWA with respect to Israeli culture.