In an August flare-up between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, the Iron Dome once again proved invaluable, intercepting 97 percent of projectiles fired toward Israel that it engaged.
With the Israeli Knesset voting to dissolve itself and head to its fifth election in just three years, the country will see Yair Lapid, who served as alternate prime minister and foreign minister in the outgoing government, become the Jewish state’s 14th prime minister.
AJC’s 2019 Survey of Israeli Jewish Opinion, conducted by Geocartography, is based on telephone interviews carried out from April 10 to 17 with a national sample of 1,000 Jews over age 18. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1%.
The Jewish Religious Equality Coalition (J-REC), mobilized by AJC and consisting of some of the most powerful American Jewish organizations and individuals, supports religious pluralism in Israel.
