A Smith Institute poll conducted ahead of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to the U.S. found that 58 percent of the public supports a "two-state solution" to the Israel-Palestinian Authority conflict, 37 percent oppose the plan and five percent claims no opinion. The study was conducted on a representative sample of 500 Israeli adults.
Deeper review of the poll’s findings, however, revealed several differences in the population. Seventy percent of Israel's religious population and 53 percent of Israeli Jews under the age of 30 oppose the plan, with 73 percent of secular Jews and 63 percent of Israeli Jews over the age of 50 supporting the establishment of a PA state. Eighty-four percent of respondents were self-defined as leftist or center-left; 63 percent of rightist respondents, or centrist and leaning towards the right, support the two-state solution, 62 percent of self-defined right-wing Israeli Jews are opposed.