Findings of an in-depth survey among the Arab public:
- Most of the Arab public (about 76%) approve of the grassroots protest against the judicial reform.
- About 62% report that their personal security is threatened by the numerous incidents of violence in Arab society.
- A large majority (about 84%) fear a repeat of the violence between Arabs and Jews that occurred during the May 2021 events.
- Most of the Arab public (about 64%) are in favor of an Arab party joining a coalition after the next elections.
- About 54% think that overall Ra’am’s participation in the previous government was successful.
Main Findings:
A large majority of the Arab public (75.9%) approve of the grassroots protest against the government’s judicial reform. A large proportion even think that Arab citizens should play a more active role in the protest; however, opinions are divided on the question of whether the subject of the protest, namely the debate over the status of the judicial system in Israel, is directly relevant to them: 47.9% feel it is while 43.9% feel it is not.
A large majority of Arab citizens (70.2%) claim that a constitution for Israel that is based on the values of the Declaration of Independence would not be acceptable to them.
A majority of Arab citizens (61.7%) feel that their personal security and that of their family is threatened by the frequent incidents of violence in Arab society.
Who is capable of dealing with the problem of violence and crime in Arab society? 41% feel that the government or the police are capable of doing so, while 29.7% feel that it must be taken care of internally by respected figures, heads of households and Arab society as a whole.
A large majority of Arab society (84.4%) are concerned that events involving violence between Arabs and Jews, like those in May 2021, are liable to reoccur in the future.
About one-half of the Arab public (55.6%) think that the current government will not last longer than two years and a majority (63.6%) would like to see an Arab party in the government coalition after the next elections. About one-half (53.6%) feel that in retrospect Ra’am’s participation in the previous government (Bennett-Lapid) was successful overall.
Thirty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, 58.3% of the respondents feel that the agreement was a negative development in the relations between Israel and the Palestinians and 49% feel that it did not benefit Arab citizens. Furthermore, about one-half of the Arab public (55.6%) feel that there is no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that the situation will remain unchanged; only 17.2% think that the conflict will be resolved by a two-state solution.