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Israelis overwhelmingly favor US President Donald Trump over his predecessor Barack Obama, according to a new poll released Wednesday, and are lukewarm in their support for the immigration of American Jews into the Jewish state.
The survey, conducted for the Haaretz newspaper on the occasion of US Independence Day, revealed that nearly half of Israelis – 49% – strongly endorsed Trump (23% slightly ), while only 22% disagreed with the US president.
However, when asked about Obama, only 19% of respondents strongly approve (30% are slightly endorsed), compared to 46% who disapprove of the former US leader.
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Trump arrived in Israel on his first trip abroad as president and visited the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, becoming the first American president to do so. In December, he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and, in May, the American Embbady in Israel was transferred from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In his views vis-à-vis the Palestinian Authority, Trump was considered more favorable to Israel than his predecessor.
His approval ratings in Israel have overshadowed his home support, where he only gets a 41.8% approval rating, according to the Haaretz poll, 44% of Israelis believe that the Trump's peace plan would be pro-Israeli, while only 7% think it would be pro-Palestinian (31% thought it would be balanced). 19659003] The Haaretz poll also asked Israelis that they wanted the majority of American Jews to move to Israel.
In total, 50% of Israelis say they support Jewish mbad immigration from the United States, but among secular Israelis only 40% want American Jews to settle (43% disagree), while 88% of Jewish Orthodox Jews want American Jews to move.
The survey also reveals that a majority of Israelis (52%) believe that American Jews do not have the right to publicly criticize Israel. , while only 37% thought they should be abl
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin welcomes new immigrants from the United States and Canada on August 12, 2014. (Mark Neyman / GPO / Flash90) [19659011] Asked if Israel should give equal rights to Reformed and Conservative Jews, a total of 47% of Israeli respondents said that they should – among those who agreed, 71% were secular, while only 3% of the religious population were in agreement. Thirty percent – 11% of the secular public and 90% of religious Israelis – said that Reformed and Conservative Jews should not have the same rights
In addition, 44% of Israelis approve of how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 26% of conservative Jews pray at the temporary and egalitarian prayer lodge of Robinson's Arch at the southern end of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift / Flash90)
The construction of an egalitarian prayer space at the Wailing Wall, which would allow reformist and conservative prayer sessions – the subject of negotiations with leaders of liberal Judaism since 2012 – is stuck in political difficulties since its approval the government in 2016. On Tuesday, the Knesset appointed Netanyahu to head the committee charged with implementing the construction of space.
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