Meanwhile, the share of Jewish voters who identified as \u201cexactly in the center\u201d grew from 10% in July 2025 to 13% in July 2026, while the share of those who identified as on the left shrank from 22% a year ago to just 19% this time.<\/p>\n
Strikingly, only 3% of Jewish respondents this year said they identified as on the left. None, or a negligible number, identified as \u201cfar left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among Arab respondents, about half identified as on the left, similar to last year, while the share of Arab voters who said they couldn\u2019t find any place for themselves on the political map went down from 21% last year to 15% this time.<\/p>\n
\t Asked what sort of coalition they\u2019d like to see in the next Knesset, a plurality (27%) opted for a \u201cchange bloc\u201d government that includes Arab parties. A further 8% opted for the \u201cchange bloc\u201d but without Arab parties.<\/p>\n The \u201cchange bloc\u201d refers to the constellation of Zionist parties currently in the opposition who oppose sitting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, 16% of respondents said they\u2019d opt for a right-wing bloc, along the lines of the current governing coalition, and 14% said they\u2019d support a bloc like the current government but with the addition of centrist parties.<\/p>\n Sixteen percent said they\u2019d support a broad coalition with elements from both the current coalition and the \u201cchange bloc,\u201d but without Arab or ultra-Orthodox parties.<\/p>\n Eight percent said they\u2019d prefer a left-right coalition that excluded Haredim but included Arabs; 5% percent of voters opted for a left-right coalition that included Haredim but excluded Arabs.<\/p>\n It was not clear from the figures released on Sunday how the remaining 6% of respondents answered.<\/p>\n Recent polls have shown that, if elections were held today, the current coalition would fail to form a government on its own; the Zionist opposition, composed of anti-Netanyahu parties but excluding Haredi and Arab ones, has consistently teetered on the edge of a majority.<\/p>\n \t The JPPI survey found diversity among voters\u2019 priorities going into the elections.<\/p>\n Some 28% picked security, while 18% picked relations between the government and the judicial system, 15% picked Israel\u2019s progress as a more liberal state, and 13% picked unity and a reduction of internal fighting.<\/p>\n How the remaining 26% voted was not clear from the figures included in the press release Sunday.<\/p>\n Among right-wing voters, security and government-judicial relations were most important, at 40% and 30%, respectively.<\/p>\n Among voters who selected the latter issue, 41% support a right-wing coalition like the one governing today, while 29% support a similar coalition with the addition of centrist parties, suggesting that the typical voter for whom this is a key issue is relatively aligned with the current coalition.<\/p>\n \t Among Arab respondents, 34% said security was the most important issue to them, while 26% picked the economy. The latter answer was far rarer among Jewish respondents, with only 5% of Jews saying the economy was the most important issue to them.<\/p>\n The Arab community has been devastated by a violent crime wave in recent years.<\/p>\n In a press release announcing the results of the poll, JPPI president Yedidia Stern said: \u201cIn previous surveys we published, we warned that the Israeli public saw the internal rift as its most central and dangerous enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs such, we must strive for as broad as possible a coalition after the election, that can establish \u2018rules of the game\u2019 and set guidelines for what\u2019s permitted and prohibited in the management of internal political conflicts,\u201d Stern said, advocating a \u201cthin constitution\u201d formulated by experts and advanced by JPPI.<\/p>\n Currently, Israel lacks a formal written constitution, relying instead on a patchwork of quasi-constitutional Basic Laws.<\/p>\n The July 2026 survey, which has not yet been released in full, was conducted primarily by the TheMadad.com panel, with Afkar Research surveying Arab respondents, and the results were weighted according to voting pattern and religiosity to make them representative of the Israeli public.<\/p>\n The number of respondents and margin of error were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
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