Israeli Public Opinion Polls: Opinion on War with Hezbollah
What, in your opinion, are the chances that in the coming year a war will break out between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon?
(The Peace Index, June 2017)
| Israeli Jews | Israeli Arabs | General Public | |
| Very low chances | 10.9% | 31.4% | 14.3% |
| Moderately low chances | 41.0% | 36.4% | 40.2% |
| Moderately high chances | 30.3% | 17.1% | 28.1% |
| Very high chances | 8.0% | 6.4% | 7.7% |
| Don't know/decline to answer | 9.9% | 8.7% | 9.7% |
Do you think Israel emerged stronger from the war? (Peace Index, July 30-August 1, 2007)
| Yes | 42% |
| Status has not changed | 27% |
| Israel's regional military status as weaker | 25% |
Do you think Hezbollah emerged stronger from the war? (Peace Index, July 30-August 1, 2007)
| Yes | 44% |
| Status has not changed | 28% |
| Hezbollah's status is weaker | 18.5% |
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Do you view the campaign in Lebanon as justified or unjustified? (Peace Index; April 30-May 1, 2007)
| April 2007 | July 2006 | |
| Justified | 57% | 93% |
| Unjustified | 38% | 5% |
| Don't Know/No clear opinion | 5% | 2% |
Have you or one of your family members or close friends served in the war? (Peace Index, April 30-May 1, 2007)
| Yes | 60% |
Do you think the assessment of the situation in the run-up to the Lebanon War was adequate or inadequate? (Dahaf Institute, January 2, 2007)
| Adequate | 20% |
| Inadequate | 80% |
If in the end Hizbullah takes over the Lebanese Government, should Israel launch a preemptive war against the Lebanese Government headed by Hizbullah? (Israel Radio’s “Its all Talk,” December 6, 2006 )
| Yes | 38.4% |
| No | 53.4% |
| Other | 8.3% |
Do you support or oppose establishing a state investigatory committee headed by a Supreme Court justice to check the performance of the government in the war in Lebanon? (Maagar Mochot, August 29, 2006)
| Support | 64% |
| Oppose | 18% |
| Other | 18% |
Do you support or oppose the Admoni Committee to check the performance of the government in the war in Lebanon?(Maagar Mochot, August 29, 2006)
| Support | 46% |
| Oppose | 26% |
| Other | 26% |
What do you think of the protests of the reserve soldiers? (Yediot Ahronot, August 25, 2006)
| Correct move | 69% |
| Wrong | 25% |
How best should the events of the war be investigated? (Yediot Ahronot, August 25, 2006)
| Professional commission | 57% |
| State commission | 30% |
| No need | 12% |
How should the government carry out an investigation of the war in Lebanon? (Israel Radio's “Its all Talk,” August 23, 2006)
| State commission | 16.7% |
| State-judicial commission (results have legal standing | 57.8% |
| Other/don't know | 9.3% |
| Oppose all investigatory commissions | 16.3% |
Should a state investigatory commission be established to investigate the management by the state and army? (Yediot Ahronot, August 16, 2006)
| Yes | 69% |
| No | 28% |
Should Israel have agreed to the cease-fire without the return of the soldiers taken hostage? (Yediot Ahronot, August 16, 2006)
| Yes | 27% |
| No | 70% |
Who won the war?
| Maariv, August 15, 2006 | Israel Radio's “Another Matter,” August 16, 2006 | Yediot Ahronot, August 16, 2006 | |
| Hezbollah | 15% | 24% | 30% |
| Israel | 18% | 28% | 30% |
| Neither | 66% | 36% | 36% |
Should Israel have agreed to the cease-fire? (Maariv, August 15, 2006)
| Yes | 42% |
| No | 53% |
Will Israel's situation vis-a-vis Hizbullah change? (Maariv, August 15, 2006)
| Improve | 36% |
| Worsen | 27% |
| No change | 33% |
Should the IDF have entered on the ground in Southern Lebanon? (Maariv, August 15, 2006)
| Yes | 62% |
| No | 32% |
Should Israel kill Nasrallah, even at the cost of renewing the fighting? (Maariv, August 15, 2006)
| Yes | 67% |
| No | 28% |
Should an state investigatory commission be appointed to investigate the management of the war?
| Israel Radio's “Another Matter,” August 16, 2006 | Maariv, August 15, 2006 | |
| Yes | 67% | 67% |
| No | 25% | 28% |
What do you believe the final result of the war will be? (Dahaf, August 10, 2006)
| Israel will cripple Hizbullah | 37% |
| Israel will lose the war and Hizbullah will return to south Lebanon | 17% |
| Don't Know | 46% |
Do you support or oppose a broad Israeli ground operation to push Hizbullah guerrillas beyond the range of short-range rockets? (Dahaf, August 10, 2006)
| Support | 64% |
| Oppose | 36% |
Do you approve or disapprove of Olmert’s actions? (Dahaf, August 10, 2006)
| Approve | 66% |
| Disapprove | 34% |
Do you favor or oppose continuing the fighting until the goals that were set are achieved? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Favor | 79% |
| Oppose | 16.5% |
| Don't Know | 4.5% |
Do you believe the government has clear goals for the operation in Lebanon? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Yes | 57% |
| No | 34% |
| Don't Know | 9% |
Do you believe the air force attacks in Lebanon are justified or unjustified, even if they cause infrastructure destruction and suffering to the Lebanese civilian population? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Justified | 91% |
| Unjustified | 9% |
How do you assess the IDF’s combat capability? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Good | 87% |
| Bad | 9% |
| Don't Know | 4% |
Do you view the IDF’s reports from the Lebanese battlefield as credible or unreliable? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Credible | 78% |
| Unreliable | 19% |
| Don't Know | 3% |
How do you asses Hezbollah’s fighting capability? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Good | 74% |
| Poor | 17% |
| Don't Know | 9% |
Do you view Hezbollah’s accounts as reliable or unreliable? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Reliable | 12% |
| Unreliable | 82% |
| Don't Know | 6% |
Do you think Hezbollah opened the front in the north to help the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Yes | 9.5% |
| No, to serve their own interests and those of Syria and Iran | 81.5% |
| Don't Know | 9% |
Do you support or oppose the stationing of an International force in Southern Lebanon to separate the sides and stop the fighting between them-as done? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Support | 71% |
| Oppose | 21% |
| Don't Know | 8% |
Do you see Israeli society as standing up well or poor so far under the burden of the campaign? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Well | 88% |
| Poor | 9% |
| Don't Know | 3% |
How do you assess the current national morale as good or bad? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Good | 55% |
| Bad | 41% |
| Don't Know | 4% |
How do you assess your sense of personal and family security? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Safe | 65% |
| Unsafe | 33% |
| Don't Know | 2% |
Do you support or oppose the public’s right to protest the war while the cannons are firing? (Peace Index; July 31- August 1, 2006)
| Support | 47% |
| Oppose | 50% |
| Don't Know | 3% |
What do you think is a solution to the crisis in the North? (Teleseker for Maariv, July 21, 2006)
| Continue fighting until Hezbollah is distanced from the border and only then negotiate a ceasefire and the return of the hostages | 90% |
| Stop the fighting now and enter into negotiations for the release of the hostages | 8% |
| Don't Know | 2% |
What is your opinion regarding the response of Israel and the IDF against Hezbollah in Lebanon? (Teleseker for Maariv, July 21, 2006)
| Correct and justified | 95% |
| Incorrect and not justified | 4% |
| Don't Know | 1% |
Are you satisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert? (Teleseker for Maariv, July 21, 2006)
| Yes | 78% |
| No | 20% |
| Don't Know | 2% |
Are you for or against Ehud Olmert's convergence plan? [AL: aka "consolidation plan", retreat from most of the West Bank] ? (Maagar Mohot Survey Institute)
| 7/16/06 | 7/19/06 | |
| For | 19% | 28% |
| Against | 52% | 50% |
| Don't know | 29% | 22% |
Do you support the way that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been handling the war? (Maagar Mohot Survey Institute, July 19, 2006)
| Support | 71% |
| Oppose | 21% |
| Don't Know | 8% |
To what extent are you satisfied with the general performance of the IDF in the current war? (Maagar Mohot Survey Institute, July 19, 2006)
| Very unsatisfied | 8% |
| Somewhat Unsatisfied | 9% |
| Middle (So-so) | 17% |
| Satisfied | 16% |
| Very satisfied | 41% |
| Don't know/other replies | 9% |
How much time do you think that the Israeli (civilian) front can bear the attacks and its damages? (Maagar Mohot Survey Institute, July 19, 2006)
| Unlimited - as much time as needed | 43% |
| A few months | 27% |
| A few weeks | 17% |
| A few days | 1% |
| Don't know/other replies | 12% |
Are you for or against the entry of IDF ground forces into Southern Lebanon? (Maagar Mohot Survey Institute, July 19, 2006)
| Special forces only | 43% |
| Large forces | 11% |
| Oppose entry of any kind of forces | 27% |
| Don't know/other replies | 19% |
Do you believe that fighting should continue with Hizbullah? (Dahaf Institute for Yedioth Ahronoth, July 18, 2006)
| Yes, until Hizbullah is completely eradicated | 58% |
| Yes, until Hizbullah pulls back from the border | 23% |
| No, stop fighting and start negotiating | 17% |
| Don't Know | 2% |
What is your opinion with the performance of Prime Minister Ehud Olmer to his response to the fighting in the north? (Dahaf Institute for Yedioth Ahronoth, July 18, 2006)
| Satisfied | 78% |
| Unsatisfied or Don't Know | 22% |
What are your opinions of Amir Peretz, the Defense minister's performance? (Dahaf Institute for Yedioth Ahronoth, July 18, 2006)
| Satisfied | 72% |
| Unsatisfied or Don't Know | 28% |
What about whether or not the military operation is justified? (Dahaf Institute for Yedioth Ahronoth, July 18, 2006)
| It is the correct path of action | 86% |
| It is a mistake | 14% |
What are your opinions of the IDF’s performance in the war? (Dahaf Institute for Yedioth Ahronoth, July 18, 2006)
| Very good | 62% |
| Fairly good | 25% |
| Fairly bad | 5% |
| Very bad | 4% |
| Don't Know | 4% |
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