According to the December Peace Index of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University, 69.5 percent of Israeli Jews said that the Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza would destroy the State of Israel given the opportunity.
Since 1994, between two-thirds and three-quarters of those interviewed have seen this as the local Arabs' intention.
53 percent oppose evacuating most of the Jewish settlements in the territories for a full peace agreement, while only 34 percent favor it.
68 percent agree that even dismantling most of the settlements would not suffice for the Arabs to sign a full peace agreement with Israel.
The Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research is an academic research institution of Tel Aviv University which surveys public opinion regarding the peace process, the Israeli-Arab conflict, both locally and in the wider Middle East.
The center publishes monthly surveys about the current state of public opinion. It is most famous for the "Peace Index", a numerical measure of Israeli public support for the peace process which has been conducted at the TSC since June 1994. Its purpose is to monitor how the Israeli public - Jews and Arabs - perceives the relations with the Arab states and the PA and their political, social, and economic implications. The project is designed to answer questions such as: What is the image of peace among Israelis (Jews and Arabs)? What changes are occurring in perceptions of the other side with the shifts back and forth between violent conflict and political negotiation? How is the definition of Israeli self-identity affected by changing levels of external threat?—and so on. Some of the findings of the surveys are published in a monthly column in the Ha’aretz newspaper and in other newspapers in Israel and abroad.
The Peace Index Project is headed by Prof. Ephraim Yaar and Prof. Tamar Herman. The telephone interviews are conducted by the B. I. Cohen Institute of Tel Aviv University. The sampling error for a sample of this size is about 4.5 percent in each direction.
Since 1994, between two-thirds and three-quarters of those interviewed have seen this as the local Arabs' intention.
53 percent oppose evacuating most of the Jewish settlements in the territories for a full peace agreement, while only 34 percent favor it.
68 percent agree that even dismantling most of the settlements would not suffice for the Arabs to sign a full peace agreement with Israel.
The Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research is an academic research institution of Tel Aviv University which surveys public opinion regarding the peace process, the Israeli-Arab conflict, both locally and in the wider Middle East.
The center publishes monthly surveys about the current state of public opinion. It is most famous for the "Peace Index", a numerical measure of Israeli public support for the peace process which has been conducted at the TSC since June 1994. Its purpose is to monitor how the Israeli public - Jews and Arabs - perceives the relations with the Arab states and the PA and their political, social, and economic implications. The project is designed to answer questions such as: What is the image of peace among Israelis (Jews and Arabs)? What changes are occurring in perceptions of the other side with the shifts back and forth between violent conflict and political negotiation? How is the definition of Israeli self-identity affected by changing levels of external threat?—and so on. Some of the findings of the surveys are published in a monthly column in the Ha’aretz newspaper and in other newspapers in Israel and abroad.
The Peace Index Project is headed by Prof. Ephraim Yaar and Prof. Tamar Herman. The telephone interviews are conducted by the B. I. Cohen Institute of Tel Aviv University. The sampling error for a sample of this size is about 4.5 percent in each direction.