Arabs more positive than Jews about Israel's situation, poll finds

Israel’s Arabs take a more positive view of the current state of the country than its Jewish citizens, according to a poll published on the eve of the 69^th anniversary of its independence.

Around two-thirds, 66 per cent, of Arabs rated the situation of the country as good or very good, compared with 44 per cent of Israeli Jews.

But Jews were far more proud of being Israeli than Arabs and more upbeat about their own personal circumstances.

Professors Ephraim Yaar and Tamar Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute, which carried out the survey, noted that although less than half of Israeli Jews thought the country’s situation good, only 16 per cent rated it bad and a third “so-so”.