Maagar Poll of National Religious:38%:40% add more secular to leadership of Bayit Yehudi
Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA 1 November 2013
The survey was conducted by Maagar – Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting Institute Ltd., managed by Professor Yitzhak Katz. The survey was
conducted by telephone 28 October 2013 of a sample of 508 respondents,
constituting a representative sample of Israel’s Jewish national religious adult population (aged 17 and over). Results published in Makor Rishon on 1 November 2013. Statistical error +/- 4.5 percentage points.
To what extent are you satisfied with the performance of Naftali Bennett as
representative and promoter of the interests of the national religious community in Israel in the last year?
Very satisfied 52% Moderately satisfied 32% Not satisfied 16%
Has the opinion of the Israeli public towards the national religious changed
for the good or the bad or has not changed in the last year?
For the good 37% Unchanged 58% For the bad 5%
Should the Bayit Yehudi Party add in more secular people to its leadership?
Yes 38% No 40% Don’t know 22%
[Bennett is more than holding his own. Why would the National Religious camp want more seculars in leadership? Probably they see the embrace of secular nationals as a good thing. So do I.]
Smith poll: Likud/Beteinu 34 Labor 17 Bayit Yehudi 13 Yesh Atid 12 Shas 12
Meretz 11
[Yesh Atid lost seats to Meretz and Labour.]
@ yamit82: that was the same article I was referring to
bernard ross Said:
November 3, 2013
Israel’s National Security: Delegitimizing the Legitimate
By Alon Ben-Meir
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/one_of_the_main_issues_comments.html#disqus_thread#ixzz2jd53UMPw
@ Ted Belman:
Ted, Perhaps your Alon Ben Meir article, which seeks to delegitimize Israels security claims for the Jordan Valley, is timed to influence these polls opposing giving it up or foreign troops.
Thanks Yamit.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Poll: Most Israelis reject Jordan Valley withdrawal by IDF
74% of Israeli Jews are against having international forces in the Jordan
Valley, rather than the IDF, according to poll.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Poll-Most-Israelis-reject-Jordan-Valley-withdrawal-by-IDF-330128
Sixty-three percent of Israelis oppose Israel withdrawing from the Jordan
Valley, even if international forces take on responsibility for Israel’s
security along the West Bank, a recent poll revealed.
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) commissioned the poll from
Mina Tzemach, the noted pollster who is with Midgam. She surveyed 588
Israelis.
JCPA president Dore Gold, a former adviser to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu, said his organization had sponsored the poll in response to
various press reports on the subject.
The poll also showed that 74% of Israeli Jews were against having
international forces in the Jordan Valley, rather than the IDF.
The current US administration has proposed that international forces be
installed in the Jordan Valley as part of an Israeli-Palestinian peace
agreement.
Israel maintains that there must be an IDF presence on the Jordanian border,
but the Palestinian Authority rejects the idea of having any Israeli forces
in the West Bank.
A likely explanation for an overwhelming majority of Israelis opposing the
deployment of international forces in the Jordan Valley, Gold said, is the
United Nations’ historical inability to defend Israel’s borders.
Gold noted that the Six Day War followed the UN Emergency Force’s evacuation
of the Sinai Peninsula because then-Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser
had ordered the force to leave. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
also failed to prevent the First and Second Lebanon Wars and Hezbollah’s
rearmament, he said, and much of the UN Disengagement Observer Force
(UNDOF), which is in the Golan Heights to maintain the cease-fire between
Syria and Israel, has requested to leave as well.
According to the poll, 63% of Israelis also oppose NATO forces in the Jordan
Valley.
Gold was surprised that “the aura of NATO as the powerful force that blocked
the spread of the Soviet military on the European continent is no longer the
perception of people around the world.”
Especially because of Afghanistan, the image of “NATO as representing
Western security has changed,” he said.
Besides the issue of the Jordan Valley, the poll showed that over 70%
percent of Israelis were against dividing Jerusalem and transferring the
Temple Mount to the Palestinians.
All of these results are roughly the same as those of a December 2012 poll
the Dahaf Institute conducted, which suggests that the peace negotiations in
the last year have not caused Israeli public opinion to fluctuate.
Looking at the polls – nothing much changed in party standings since February’s election. For this reason, few politicians are eager to return to face the voters again.