Holding elections on schedule is one of the fundamental principles of democracy. Yet in certain emergency situations, there ...

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This month saw a decline in optimism across all four topics. The level of optimism about the future of democratic rule fell from 40% to 36%, and the level of optimism about the future of national ...

Israel uses a proportional representation electoral system based on closed-list ballots, that is, voters do not have a way to influence which candidates will enter Knesset on Election Day—unlike most ...

This month, we found only minor changes in levels of optimism regarding the two topics which always receive the lowest optimism ratings (as they did this month): the future of social cohesion and the ...

This month saw a continued decline in levels of optimism, this time across all four topics, though the decreases are very small. Significantly, this marks the continuation of a trend that began in ...

44% of Israelis think Israel's security is a central consideration for President Trump, representing a sharp decline from the last measurement. 61% of Israelis think Prime Minister Netanyahu should ...

In this paper, we examine Israel’s 2026 state budget against the backdrop of the prolonged war that began on October 7, 2023, and the ongoing damage it has caused to Israel’s fiscal stability, growth ...

What is the structure of the Knesset? The Knesset is the parliament of the State of Israel, made up of 120 Members of Knesset (MKs). Unlike in some democracies, Israel has only a single legislative ...

The State of Israel belongs to the family of parliamentary democracies, in which the executive branch (the government – i.e., the prime ministers and his or her cabinet) draws its authority from the ...

The State of Israel belongs to the family of parliamentary democracies, in which the executive branch (the government – i.e., the prime ministers and his or her cabinet) draws its authority from the ...

The survey was conducted by the Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute between March 22–26, 2026. It was based on a representative sample of the ...