Poll: More Than 75% Israeli Arabs Favor an Arab Party Joining a Future Government Coalition - Israel News
More than 75 percent of Arab citizens in Israel support an Arab party joining a coalition in the next elections, according to a new study on attitudes in Arab society published on Tuesday by Tel Aviv University.
The survey was conducted on behalf of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the Moshe Dayan Center. The researchers predict that if the Joint List is re-established, the voter turnout in Arab society will jump to 61.8 percent and the Joint List will win 15 seats in the Knesset. According to the survey, the majority of the Arab public supports Arab-Jewish political cooperation, but only 44.7 percent of Arabs in Israel believe that the Jewish public supports such cooperation.
A large majority of survey participants (74.6 percent) indicated that relations between Arab and Jewish citizens had deteriorated as a result of the war. Of these, 45.8 percent added that relations had deteriorated to a great extent. 37.5 percent of survey participants indicated that their sense of belonging to the country had weakened as a result of the war in the past two years.
In contrast to political cooperation, Arab citizens are less optimistic about finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the survey. About half of the Arab public (47.3 percent) believe that the realistic solution to the conflict is two states based on the 1967 lines. Only 14 percent believe that the realistic solution is one state, from sea to river, shared by Israelis and Palestinians, and 8.5 percent propose a regional solution with international mediation. In contrast, about a fifth (21 percent) of respondents believe that there is no political solution in sight.
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Another central issue that worries Arab society in Israel is the perception of personal security, which has been undermined in recent years. An overwhelming majority of respondents (76.6 percent) indicated that their sense of personal security is weak. Of these, the majority attributed this feeling to the increase in violence in Arab communities (51.9 percent), the fear of a new war (14.2 percent), the situation of the Palestinians in Gaza (11.3 percent), and economic hardship (10 percent). In contrast, a large majority (73.4 percent) of survey participants indicate that their economic situation is relatively good – the highest rate measured in surveys conducted by the Konrad Adenauer Program during the war.
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The study also found that the main issue that worries most survey participants (74 percent) is the problem of violence and crime in Arab society. Since the establishment of the government in 2022, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of murders in Arab society in Israel, while the rate of solving murder cases in Arab society is significantly lower compared to the rate of solving murder cases of Jews.
Other prominent issues that concern the Arab public are the settlement of the Palestinian issue (7.6 percent) and the settlement of planning and construction in Arab localities (7 percent). According to the study, two main components stand out in the personal identity of Arab citizens: Arab identity (35.9 percent) and Israeli citizenship (31.7 percent). Two additional components are religious affiliation (17.3 percent) and Palestinian identity (14.7 percent).
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Dr. Arik Rudnitzky, director of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the Moshe Dayan Center, said that despite the prolonged war, Arab citizens remained focused on civil issues. Rudnitzky added that in their support for an Arab party joining a future coalition and their belief in political partnership – even in the shadow of the war – Arab citizens demonstrated "remarkable political maturity."
The survey was conducted by the StatNet Research Institute, directed by Yosef Makleda. The data were collected between November 13-18, 2025, through a telephone survey conducted in Arabic among a representative sample of the adult Arab population in Israel aged 18 and over. The sample size was 500 respondents, with a margin of error of 4.4 percent.