President Obama\’s job approval rating among Jewish voters remained at 60 percent, but his favorability ratings easily outdistanced leading Republicans, a poll showed.
Evangelical Protestant leaders from around the world said they sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians, although a small majority said they sympathize with both sides equally, a survey found.
Americans\’ views on Middle East issues have not changed in recent months, despite major headlines from the region, according to a new poll.
Israel ranked seventh worldwide in the happiness level of its residents, according to a survey conducted by the Gallup Institute.
More than half of Egyptians say the peace treaty with Israel should be annulled, a new poll has found. Some 54 percent are prepared to overturn the treaty, with 36 percent saying the treaty should be maintained. Some 10 percent said they did not know, according to a nationwide survey from Pew Research Center\’s Global Attitudes Project.
A majority of Americans oppose a declaration of Palestinian statehood absent a peace agreement with Israel, a new poll finds. The poll released this week by the Israel Project showed 51 percent of registered U.S. voters oppose a proposal that the Palestinian Authority \”unilaterally declare an independent Palestinian state WITHOUT a signed peace treaty with Israel,\” while 31 percent support it.
The American Jewish population is larger than suspected, according to new estimates compiled by Brandeis University. The suburban Boston university’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute is estimating that there are some 6.5 million people in the United States who are either Jewish by religion or who self-identify as Jewish. The figure represents a 20 percent increase in the number of Jews since 1990. The numbers were drawn from a synthesis of data from more than 150 nationwide surveys conducted by the U.S. government and other agencies, as well as from national polling organizations.
51 percent of Israeli Jews hold negative views of U.S. President Barack Obama, while 41 percent feel positive towards the American leader, a poll released on Thursday by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy found. According to the poll, the world figure most admired by Israeli Jews is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, followed by former U.S. president Bill Clinton, with Obama coming in third place. Not surprisingly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the world leader most disliked by Israeli Jews.
A poll based on a small sample suggests that Jewish identification with Republicans has surged.
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