Level of trust in the IDF - the lowest since 2008: The Democracy Index in Israel

The Israeli Democracy Institute's index shows that the IDF is still the state body that enjoys the highest level of trust in Israel - 78% - but has reached a 13-year low. The data also show gaps between Jews and Arabs: 61% of Jews agree that the state manages security From the Arabs

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06/01/2022

Thursday, 06 January 2022, 12:00

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Public trust in the IDF has been at its lowest level in the last 13 years, according to the Democracy Index of the Israel Democracy Institute, which was submitted today (Thursday) to President Yitzhak Herzog.

The IDF is still the state body that enjoys the highest trust in Israel, relative to the government, the Knesset, the police and the media, and it stands at 78%. 2008. Public trust in the police has also declined in recent months, from 41% in October to 33.5% in January. As every year, the president ranks second in the confidence index with 58%, followed by the Supreme Court with 42%, the police with 33.5%, the government with 27%, the media with 25%, and the Knesset with 21%. At the bottom of the list are the parties, which enjoy only 10% public confidence. The data also show that Arab society's trust in all state institutions is lower than that of Jews and lower than 50% for all bodies. Precisely with regard to the police, there has been an increase in trust in Arab society in recent months - from 13% in June to 22% in October.

Another finding that emerges from the index, which is based on large-scale surveys conducted in June and October and a review of various international indices, concerns the sense of security, where large gaps between Jews and Arabs are revealed: 61% of Jews agree that Israel manages to secure its citizens, compared to only a minority of Arabs - 33% .

In addition, among Arab society, in the last two years, there has been a sharp decline in the sense of security, which stood at 64% in 2019 and 56% in 2020.

Only a third of the respondents believe that Israel manages to take care of the well-being of its citizens, without significant differences between Jews and Arabs.

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Depression in trust in the IDF (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Another part of the index refers to Israelis' assessment of the state of the country, which is also at a low: Only about a third of respondents rated Israel's general condition as "good" or "very good" - 31%, this is the lowest rate in the last decade. Here, too, the deterioration was particularly felt among the Arab public, although there has been a significant improvement in recent months, with 48% describing the situation as "bad" or "very bad" in June compared to 28% in October. The change of government also affected the assessments of the state: The segmentation of the Jewish sample by political camps shows that center-left voters, who strongly support the government, the rate of assessing that the state is good or very good rose, while on the right it is down - from 39.5% in June To 29% in October. According to Prof. Tamar Herman of the Israel Democracy Institute, which conducts the index, "We see a scream in the positions:"Voters of coalition parties who were previously pessimistic about the future of Israeli democracy and held negative assessments of its functioning have moved to the more optimistic side, while voters of the current opposition parties, who have been removed from power, now hold much more critical and negative positions than before."

President Yitzhak Herzog said upon receiving the index that the decline in the degree of trust in state institutions is very disturbing and "deprives him of sleep."

He said, "The growing tension and mistrust between the authorities - the executive, the legislature and the judiciary - has led to a decline in public confidence that sees and hears the clashes and criticism - matter-of-fact, and also less matter-of-fact. "We can and must act differently."

The president of the Israel Democracy Institute, Yohanan Plesner, called on "political leadership to take responsibility for the crisis and make use of the roadmap outlined by the Democracy Index."

The IDF spokesman said: "The IDF is the people's army and public trust is an important component in the realization of its mission. The IDF sees the issue of public trust as a very significant component in national security, and conducts learning and improvement processes accordingly."

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