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Poll: «Israelis» Think Their Leadership Is Corrupt

Poll: «Israelis» Think Their Leadership Is Corrupt
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By Staff, Agencies

The majority of Israelis think that their leadership is corrupt, according to the comprehensive annual Democracy Index in the “Israeli” entity that was presented on Tuesday morning to the entity’s President Reuven Rivlin.

The index was conducted for the 17th year by The Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the “Israel” Democracy Institute [IDI] on the basis of a large-scale public opinion survey conducted in May 2019. The survey included 1,014 interviewees, who constitute a representative sample of the adult “Israeli” population.

The poll found that 58% see their leadership as corrupt or very corrupt, 24% see them as moderately corrupt and 16% not at all, while 2% had no opinion.

The percentage who deem their leadership corrupt has been rising steadily since the IDI began measuring it in 2014, when it stood at 43%. The institute found a connection between perceptions regarding corruption and perceptions of the quality of the entity’s “democracy”, in that 46.5% of those who think the entity’s leadership is corrupt also think that the quality of the entity’s democracy is poor. Among those who think that “Israeli” leadership is not corrupt, only 18% think that the entity’s democracy is in poor condition.

The “Israeli” Occupation Forces [IOF] remains the most trusted “Israeli” institution. Some 90% of “Israelis” say they trust the army, followed by the office of the president [71%] and the Supreme Court [55%].

Less than half of “Israelis” trust the police [44%] or the media [36%]. At the bottom of the list are the government and Knesset [30% each] and political parties [14%]. Last month, the “Israeli” Voice Index of the Guttman Center of the IDI also tested public trust in the Attorney General's Office: 46.5% of “Israelis” said they trust Avichai Mandelblit, and a similar percentage [42%] trust the so-called “State” Prosecution.

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