Israel
By Yisrael Price
YERUSHALAYIM -
Sunday, January 17, 2021 at 2:18 pm | ד שבט תשפ א
Shomron Regional Council head Yossi Dagan (center) at the protest tent of Yesha Council and Young Settlements Forum, demanding the government legalize outposts, outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Yerushalayim. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israel’s President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin appealed to leaders of a hunger strike demanding normalization of illegal outpost communities to call off the strike, after the collapse of one of its members.
Rivlin on Sunday spoke by phone with Shomron Regional Council head Yossi Dagan to inquire after his welfare and that of fellow protestors, following the collapse of Etay Zar over Shabbos. A Gilad Farm resident and well-known activist, Zar fainted and was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with COVID-19.
IDI s 2020 Democracy Index: Jewish Israelis Prefer That Matters of War and Peace be Decided by Jewish Majority
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January 11, 2021
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Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, and
Prof. Tamar Hermann, Director of IDI s Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research, today (Monday) presented President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin with the Israeli Democracy Index for 2020. The Democracy Index, which is published annually for the past 18 years, reveals a complex picture regarding the level of public trust in key institutions; confidence in the country s civil ser
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January 11, 2021
Israeli Democracy Index 2020 reveals sharp decline in assessment of relations between the police and the public since the outbreak of COVID-19. A majority of Israelis believe that the police does not take criticism seriously
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Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, and
Prof. Tamar Hermann, Director of IDI s Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research, today (Monday) presented President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin with the Israeli Democracy Index for 2020. The Index, which is published annually for the past 18 years, reveals a complex picture of the level of public trust in key State institutions, and of Israelis confidence in the overall strength and resilience of Israeli democracy.
Israeli Democracy Index 2020 included a focus on Israel’s healthcare system and found higher levels of satisfaction with HMOs than with hospitals and public trust in Sick Funds is higher than in any other public institution surveyed
Israeli Democracy Index 2020 reveals the lowest point in a decade in the public s trust in all public institutions and government officials particularly in the Knesset and the Supreme Court – as well as major erosion of the public’s sense of social solidarity.