Results of Latest Truman Institute-Palestinian Center Poll Released

Results of Latest Truman Institute-Palestinian Center Poll Released

Forty-four percent of Jews support and 48 percent oppose the call to avoid renting apartments to Arabs.

This is just one of the findings from the latest joint Israeli-Palestinian poll conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah.

The joint survey was conducted following a number of incidents directed against Israel's Arab citizens over recent months, which included calls by rabbis not to rent apartments to Arab students and several legislation proposals pending in the Knesset.

In the poll, several questions were included on these issues to examine the degree of support of these expressions in the Israeli public. The poll indicates that the number of Israelis and of Israeli Jews that support these steps are in the minority. Palestinians however believe that the majority of Israelis supports such expressions.

Burkas
Additional findings of the poll showed that 40% of Jews support a law that would allow small communities to reject admission of new candidates based on social, national or economic suitability; 48% oppose it. 41% support and 52% oppose a law that would ban the use of burkas or other face cover of women in public places.

Pledge of allegiance
As to a law that would require candidates for citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state, 6% of Jews and 3% of Arabs support such a law if it applies only to non- Jews. 55% of Jews and 17% of Arabs support a law that would apply to all candidates for citizenship.

Clinton Parameters
The poll showed that there is a significant increase in support for the Clinton permanent settlement framework among Israelis and a marginal increase among Palestinians compared to 2009. 52% of Israelis support and 39% oppose it; 40% of Palestinians support and 58% oppose it.

The Palestinian sample size was 1270 adults interviewed face-to-face in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in 127 randomly selected locations between December 16 and 18, 2010. The margin of error is 3%. The Israeli sample includes 511 adult Israeli Jews and 408 Israeli Arabs weighted according to their proportion in the population interviewed by phone in Hebrew Arabic or Russian between November 21 and 29, 2010. The margin of error is 4.5%. The poll was planned and supervised by Prof. Yaacov Shamir, the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University, and Prof. Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR). This survey was conducted with the support of the Ford Foundation Cairo Office and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Jerusalem and Ramallah.