85% of the Jewish public in Israel thinks that “there is no chance of a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the foreseeable future.”
By David Isaac
More than half of respondents would oppose a "Palestinian" state even if it were part of a Saudi-Israel peace deal.
By Canaan Lidor
Previous surveys consistently showed a declining but steady support for the idea among all Israelis, including Jews.
By David Isaac
Two new polls show that the Israeli public backs the Netanyahu government's position that holding the Egypt-Gaza border is critical to Israel's security.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A new poll shows how public opinion has shifted on a number of issues since the Hamas massacre.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
That percentage represents approximately 308,700 citizens of Israel.
By Joshua Marks
Nearly three-quarters of Arabs in Gaza, Judea and Samaria support the Oct. 7 attack. They also believe Hamas will win the war.
“This poll tells us very little about how N.Y. Jews will vote,” said Mark Mellman, president of Democratic Majority for Israel.
“The explosion of antisemitism since Oct. 7 demands that we take collective action now,” said Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee.
“Do you support or oppose the notion that as part of a deal to end the war—which will include long-term military quiet, guarantees from the United States, and an agreement with Arab states such as Saudi Arabia—Israel should agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state?”
When asked who should rule Gaza, 60% of respondents selected the Hamas terror group.
72% said they favor a “national unity government” that includes Hamas and the Palestinian Authority Fatah terrorist groups.
The protesters are largely homogeneous in their makeup and not representational of the state of Israel.
The democratically elected officials are fulfilling the will of the people that voted them in.
Two-thirds of Americans expressed a favorable view of the Israeli people, including one-in-five who say they feel “very favorably” toward the Israelis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“A certain majority of the public as a whole sees Iran as constituting a great existential danger to Israel.”
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The political divide between Israeli and American Jews has widened considerably, according to a poll published by the American Jewish Committee on Sunday.
Results from a survey in 23 countries showed the strangest results when it came to Israel.
Nearly half the Arabs want Israel to open up more work places (like SodaStream) in the West Bank.
16.5% of the Arabs surveyed actually believe that most of the prisoner demands were obtained.
By JNi.Media
In no country did the number of respondents that disagreed with stopping all Muslim immigration surpass 32%.
By JNi.Media
The Knesset has maintained most of its status, but that's only because it was very low 25 years ago – 27%. Today it's down to 23%.
By JNi.Media
Here's a loaded item: 30% support segregation between Jews and Arabs in public places, 18% support reducing the presence of women in public places.
By JNi.Media
A whopping 80.5% of the Jewish public agree with the recent statement by Ambassador Ron Dermer that “Israel has no doubt that President-elect Trump is a true friend of Israel.”
By JNi.Media
It is impossible to paint lipstick on either of these pigs, but in the competition between Halloween and Christmas over which of the two holidays is more dangerous Halloween wins out, hands down.
By JNi.Media
A third of the evacuees still live in temporary housing, 14% are unemployed and a third still see themselves as Gush Katif residents.
By JNi.Media
The vast majority of respondents said staying closed or open on Shabbat should be left to them to decide, while 19% preferred that the decision be enforced by the authorities.
By JNi.Media
Only 15% of the Jews asked are married to a non-Jew. But wait, don't celebrate yet: only 35% are married to a Jew, either from birth or a convert, and a full 49% are not married.
By JNi.Media
Among the Jewish respondents, only 4% strongly believe in peace between Israel and the Palestinians. 16.1% believe it moderately. 35.4% moderately do not believe it. 41.1% do not believe it at all.
By JNi.Media
However, in all three areas, Israeli Jews scored far better than their Arab neighbors, with an average gap of 40 to 50 points in every area.
By JNi.Media
The good news is that a 62% majority of US respondents believe that the BDS movement is a form of modern anti-Semitism.
By Sean Savage
“I doubt the level of hostility [in America] will reach the levels we see in Europe,” said Brandeis’s Sasson.
By JNi.Media
Half the leftists feel ill at ease about expressing their views in Israel, while absolute majority of right-leaning Jews feel very or quite comfortable.
A large majority of Israelis are willing to support an increase in benefits to help new immigrants succeed.
80% of Israelis have WhatsApp, and 70% believe they can't live without the app.
The poll comes on the heels of another set of polls which claimed that Israelis supported the two-state solution by a two-thirds margin.
By Tom Nisani
According to Israeli media watchdog Presspectiva, the conclusions of an Ha'aretz survey showing Israelis favor apartheid were misrepresented by the paper.
CNN reported that a CNN/ORC International nationwide poll found 48% of voters who watched the vice presidential debate Thursday thought Congressman Paul Ryan won, awhile 44% gave the win to Vice President Joe Biden. Half of the debate watchers in the survey said the encounter didn't make them more likely to vote for either of […]
By JTA
Seventy percent of Americans view Israel favorably, according to a survey conducted by the Foreign Policy Initiative.
By JTA
The European Union launched an online survey into how Jews experience anti-Semitism in nine member states. Results will be published in an EU report next year, Henry Nickels of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency said Tuesday at a European Jewish Parliament conference in Brussels. Nickels' Vienna-based intergovernmental body and the Institute for Jewish Policy […]
By Soeren Kern
A recent study revealed that nearly half of all Turks living in Germany say they hope there will be more Muslims than Christians in Germany in the futureIslam is becoming an increasingly important component of the value structure of Turks in Germany, especially among the younger generation of Turkish-Germans, who hold religious views more radical than their elders' views.
By Gil Lavie, Tazpit News Agency
A BBC Sponsored Public Opinion Survey by the Globespan group asked 24,090 people from 16 countries to rate countries from “mostly negative” to “mostly positive” on a scale.
By JTA
A leading Jewish demographer is disputing the findings of a recent widely cited survey on New York Jewry. Len Saxe, a demographer at Brandeis University, told the New York Jewish Week that the survey overestimated the number of Orthodox Jews in the city. He agreed with the finiding that the city’s overall Jewish population has […]
According to a survey of 5,993 individuals conducted by the UJA Federation, the Jewish community in New York City is growing, mainly fueled by an increase in the Orthodox and Chasidic community. The downside is, according to their critics, Welfare is a crucial ingredient in these communities.
In a recent survey of the OECD's 34 countries, Israel ranked sixth in 'life satisfaction.' Israelis are also among the healthiest in the developed world, with a low obesity rate (13.8%) and an average life expectancy of nearly 82 years.
Jewish support for President Obama has improved significantly in the last year and a half, according to a new survey by the American Jewish Committee .
A new AJC survey of American Jews shows President Obama would win a majority of the Jewish vote in a contest against Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee. Obama would gain 61 percent and Romney 28 percent, with 11 percent undecided.
Israel Hayom poll: 70% of respondents described themselves as "very proud" to be Israeli...65% view themselves as Jews first, and then Israelis..."Those groups most satisfied with life in Israel are people over the age of 55, religious people, and residents of Jerusalem."
By Tibbi Singer
As of now, 62 percent of Jewish voters favor Obama's return—down from 78 percent in 2008—but this number is still more than twice the number who said they would prefer a Republican candidate, according to the survey released Tuesday at a National Press Club briefing. Only 37 percent said Comic Sarah Silverman represented Jewish values well or very well. Eric Cantor only got 38 percent.
60% of Jewish Israelis also agreed with the statement that only military force could halt Iran's nuclear program, while 37% disagreed; and when asked if they believed that Israel's home front will suffer equally whether it is Israel that attacks Iran or the United States, 63% answered in the affirmative.
A survey released two weeks ago, titled “The American Mosque 2011,” revealed a tremendous growth in the number of mosques across the US since 9/11, and claims that Islamic radicalism in the US is on the wane. But Islam expert David Yerushalmi says that many of the numbers presented in the survey don't add up, and in fact contradict similar surveys conducted in recent years.
According to a Gallup poll released Monday, Americans rank Iran as the US' top enemy. The poll, which was conducted February 2-5, asked: "What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States' greatest enemy today?" 32% of respondents said Iran, while 23% said China. North Korea was the only […]
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Rasmussen Reports also found that 83% believe it is at least somewhat likely Iran will develop a nuclear weapon in the near future.
A newly-released study shows that while Israel continues to achieve major secular advances in fields such as science and technology, agriculture and economy, the populace is more religious now than ever before.
90% of Israeli Jews celebrate the Pesach Seder.
Campus watchdog organizations Im Tirtzu, IsraCampus, and Israel Academia Monitor performed the survey.