The High Court ruling, Aryeh Deri is kosher and Netanyahu's next step:
the majority of the public in Israel, including Likud and religious Zionist voters, agree with the High Court's ruling that Aryeh Deri cannot serve as a kosher minister - according to a survey conducted by the Brainpool Institute led by Prof. Yitzhak Katz, for "Israel Hayom".
To the question of what is your position regarding the High Court's ruling according to which Aryeh Deri will not be able to serve as a kosher minister - 65 percent answered that they agree with the High Court's ruling, and that a person who has been convicted twice cannot serve as a kosher minister.
22 percent answered that they do not agree with the judges and in their opinion the High Court should not intervene in the matter. 13 percent answered that they do not know.
High Court of Justice, Photo: Reuters/Archive
Broken down by party, 57 percent of Likud voters agree with the High Court ruling on the Deri matter. In religious Zionism - 42 percent agree with the High Court, 40 percent oppose and 18 percent don't know.
Among Shas and Torah Judaism voters, only 22 percent agree with the High Court ruling.
Netanyahu.
The ball passed into his hands, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
As for the question of how Netanyahu should act after the High Court ruling - 45 percent of the entire sample answered that Netanyahu should fire Deri, 25 percent think that Deri should resign himself, 15 percent think that Netanyahu should not respect the High Court ruling.
15 percent do not know.
The survey was conducted by the Brain Pool Institute headed by Prof. Yitzhak Katz between January 19-20. 562 people were sampled in an online panel that is a representative sample of the entire adult Israeli population aged 18 and over. The size of the statistical error: 4.3% at a 95% confidence level.
The full results will be published on Saturday night on the Israel Hayom website.
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