According to a new poll, 45.8% of Israelis expressed distrust of local mayors and city council members. The percentage of those expressed a high degree of confidence was 32.6%. 21.6% of those polled said they were neutral on the issue.
The poll was intended to assess the performance of local governments in 2011 and was conducted by Dr. Itai Barry of the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa and Dr. Fanny Yuval of Ben-Gurion University in the Negev.