A survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute shows that 43% of Israelis are optimistic about the future of Israel's security. This is a significant increase from the survey published last month in which only 34% expressed optimism on the subject.
The public is equally divided on the subject of the government finishing its term: 44% believe it will, and 43.5% do not.
Public confidence in the Knesset almost doubled (26%) compared to last year with the fall of the Bennett-Lapid government (14%). A significant difference was recorded between the percentage of those who trust the Knesset among the voters of the coalition parties (39%) and the voters of the opposition parties (16%). During the tenure of the Bennet-Lapid government, the opposite was true. The rate of trust in the government also increased from 21% in June 2021 to 29% today.
43% express confidence in the Supreme Court, a stable figure over the last two years. Among the voters of the coalition parties, only 16.5% have confidence in this institution, compared to 72% of the voters of the opposition parties.
Half a year before the local authority elections, 55% of the Jewish interviewees stated that they have confidence in the local authority where they live, compared to 38% of the Arab interviewees who feel the same way.
Most of the interviewees oppose the opinion that the state should rarely interfere in intra-communal matters (53%). The haredi communities are the exception to this matter and most of them want the state to interfere in the community's affairs less (76.5%).
93.5% of haredim support the funding of schools that do not teach core studies by the state, compared to only 13% of the secular.
67% believe that today the relations between the right and the left are bad. Most of the respondents believe that the relations between Jews and Arabs (57%) are likewise subpar, an opinion shared by religious and secular Israelis. A significant percentage of the population feel that there are good relations between Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish communities (39%).
73% of the interviewees oppose the idea of cantonization, that is, the division of Israel into two states - liberal secular (Israel) and conservative religious (Judah), compared to 15% who support this idea. 21% of the secular support the idea of dividing into two states, compared to only about a tenth of haredim (10%) and the religious Jewish Israelis (9%).
The surveyors, Prof. Tamar Herman and Dr. Or Inabi, point out that "it seems that public opinion on the issue of the crisis situation in which Israel finds itself has entered a kind of negative stagnation. The data show that each party is entrenched in its positions regarding a wide range of issues, including trust in institutions, the assessment of the government's life expectancy, and more. In addition, there is also a fixation of the concept of the structured conflict between different parts of the population, first and foremost between the right and the left. Only leadership with a comprehensive vision, or alternatively a reality-changing event can reverse this stagnation at this time."