Israeli Attitudes Toward Democracy
Please rate the following
groups according to how democratically
they reacted both preceding and during
Disengagement – 1= Not at all democratically,
10= Strictly democratically, Not democratically
1-4, Middle 5, Democratically 6-10 (Israel
Democracy Institute, September 14-15th,
2005)
| |
IDF |
Police |
Government |
Gush Katif Residents |
Moetzet Yesha |
General Public |
| Not democratic |
10% |
15% |
38% |
26% |
32% |
11% |
| Middle |
8% |
8% |
11% |
15% |
17% |
20% |
| Democratic |
77% |
69% |
47% |
54% |
41% |
56% |
| No opinion |
5% |
8% |
4% |
5% |
10% |
13% |
Democracy is the best form of government. (PORI,
September 2003)
| |
Israeli Jews |
Israeli Arabs |
Palestinians |
| Strongly Agree |
53% |
55% |
55% |
| Somewhat Agree |
34% |
31% |
25% |
| Somewhat Disagree |
8% |
4% |
9% |
| Strongly Disagree |
5% |
9% |
8% |
| Don't Know |
-- |
1% |
3% |
Free market capitalism is the best economic system.
(PORI, September 2003)
| |
Israeli Jews |
Israeli Arabs |
Palestinians |
| Strongly agree |
20% |
19% |
24% |
| Somewhat agree |
41% |
29% |
31% |
| Somewhat disagree |
17% |
15% |
20% |
| Strongly disagree |
15% |
32% |
18% |
| Don't know |
7% |
6% |
8% |
The citizens of a country should be held responsible
for the actions of their government. (PORI, September 2003)
| |
Israeli Jews |
Israeli Arabs |
Palestinians |
| Strongly agree |
24% |
53% |
32% |
| Somewhat agree |
36% |
22% |
35% |
| Somewhat disagree |
17% |
9% |
17% |
| Strongly disagree |
21% |
15% |
11% |
| Don't know |
2% |
2% |
5% |
Governments should be held responsible for the actions
of their citizens. (PORI, September 2003)
| |
Israeli Jews |
Israeli Arabs |
Palestinians |
| Strongly agree |
23% |
64% |
37% |
| Somewhat agree |
40% |
24% |
40% |
| Somewhat disagree |
19% |
5% |
15% |
| Strongly disagree |
16% |
6% |
4% |
| Don't know |
3% |
1% |
5% |
And ideally, Israel’s political system should
be a …? [The political system of a future Palestinian state should
be…?] (PORI, September 2003)
| |
Israeli Jew |
Israeli Arabs |
Palestinians |
| Democratic regime in which all the political ideas are represented |
79% |
[67%] |
[33%] |
| A Jewish religious regime with numerous parties based on halacha
/ [An Islamic, single-party government] |
14% |
[7%] |
[21%] |
| A Jewish religious single-party government / [An Islamic regime
with numerous parties based on Islam] |
6% |
[22%] |
[17%] |
| Don't Know / Refused |
2% |
[4%] |
[29%] |
How satisfied are you with being an Israeli citizen? (Dahaf
Institute, February 13 1998)
| Very satisfied |
62% |
| Considerably satisfied |
28% |
| Considerably unsatisfied |
6% |
| Not satisfied at all |
4% |
Israelis In Favor of Civil Rights (Israeli Democracy, Spring
1991)
| |
1987 |
1989 |
1990 |
Total |
| Equal political and social rights |
70.3 |
65.1 |
62.8 |
66.1 |
| Freedom of conscience and religion |
82.9 |
75.3 |
82.2 |
80.1 |
| Freedom of language, education & culture |
83.7 |
84.4 |
82.4 |
83.5 |
| Total |
79.0 |
74.9 |
75.8 |
76.6 |
Democratic Principles of Israelis (Israeli Democracy, Spring 1991)
| |
1987 |
1989 |
1990 |
Total |
| Opposes the idea of "imposing order" |
59.8 |
41.7 |
37.9 |
46.5 |
| Opposes restrictions on democracy |
57.2 |
42.2 |
43.6 |
47.7 |
| Disagrees that Israel is too democratic |
65.4 |
53.7 |
56.0 |
58.4 |
| Total of pro-democracy opinions |
60.8 |
45.9 |
45.8 |
50.0 |
Tolerance of Israeli Arabs (Israeli Democracy, Spring 1991)
| |
1987 |
1989 |
1990 |
Support the right of Israeli
Arabs to demonstrate |
51.5 |
48.6 |
41.3 |
Support Israeli Arabs' right
to be elected to Knesset |
48.4 |
49.9 |
44.8 |
Oppose the encouragement of
Arab emigration from Israel |
36.2 |
29.9 |
26.7 |
| Total |
45.4 |
42.6 |
37.6 |
Trust in Israeli Institutions (Israeli Democracy, Spring 1991)
| |
1987 |
1989 |
1990 |
Total |
| IDF |
90.3 (1) |
91.5 (1) |
88.5 (1) |
90.1 (1) |
| Courts |
82.5 (2) |
79.3 (2) |
77.8 (2) |
79.9 (2) |
| Universities |
75.5 (3) |
68.8 (4) |
68.0 (4) |
70.7 (3) |
| Police |
62.0 (4) |
69.8 (3) |
72.5 (3) |
68.1 (4) |
| Knesset |
59.8 (5) |
52.3 (6) |
48.0 (7) |
53.4 (6) |
| Government |
59.5 (6) |
52.3 (5) |
46.8 (9) |
52.9 (7) |
| Local Government |
58.5 (7) |
50.8 (7) |
53.0 (5) |
54.1 (5) |
| Histadrut |
45.3 (8) |
34.5(11) |
40.3(10) |
40.0 (10) |
| Rabbinate |
43.4 (9) |
50.5 (8) |
50.5 (6) |
48.2 (8) |
| Big Business |
43.3(10) |
38.5 (9) |
47.5 (8) |
43.1 (8) |
| Press |
40.3(11) |
38.0(10) |
38.8(11) |
39.0 (11) |
| Political Parties |
34.8(12) |
30.3(12) |
32.0(12) |
32.4 (12) |
| Average |
57.9 |
54.7 |
55.3 |
55.5 |
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