February saw a sharp increase in the proportion of Israelis who describe the overall situation in the Zionist entity as bad or very bad, according to a February survey cited by Israeli media
The Israeli Democracy Institute’s February 2023 edition of the Israeli Voice Index showed that the percentage of Israelis who are optimistic about the future of so-called national security in the occupation regime declined from 46% in January to 31% in February.
The Israeli Voice Index is a monthly survey conducted by the Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research. The February report was compiled by Prof. Tamar Hermann and Dr. Or Anabi, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The survey was conducted via the internet and by telephone between February 27 and March 5, 2023, with 608 men and women interviewed in Hebrew and 173 in Arabic, “creating a nationally representative sample of the adult population in Israel,” according to the JPost.
Researchers found a notable decline in the percentage of Israelis who are optimistic about the security in ‘Israel’, both internal and external. Optimists were in the minority across the political spectrum – 11% of those on the Left, 22% of those in the center and 46% of those on the Right reported optimism about Israeli security. The IDI report noted that this could be due to February’s uptick in Palestinian operations.
The level of optimism about what they called “future of democracy” has stayed the same over the last several months, according to the IDI’s reports. Only 38% of all respondents reported feeling optimistic about the “future of democratic rule in Israel.” Among those, 41% of Jews expressed this sentiment whereas only 19% of Arabs interviewed did, according to the survey.
In terms of the Zionist entity’s overall situation, the percentage of interviewees who characterized it as bad or very bad rose from 30% to 47% since October 2022 when the question was last asked, according to IDI. The number of respondents who described Israeli situation has remained stable at approximately 25%, which means that the shift occurred among those whose opinions were previously neutral.
Source: Israeli media
