{"id":286117,"date":"2026-02-11T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286117\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:57:07","slug":"israelis-say-donald-trump-one-of-best-us-presidents-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286117\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelis say Donald Trump one of best US presidents for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly three-quarters of Israelis say that US President Donald Trump’s policy on Israel is better-than-average, according to the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI<\/a>) Israeli Society Index for February,<\/p>\n

According to the index’s findings, 73% of Israelis rate Trump as a better-than-average US president in terms of Israel’s interests, with 49% describing him as one of the best in US history for Israel.<\/p>\n

This comes ahead of Trump’s meeting on Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Results were split among political parties: Ninety-two percent of the Israeli right believed Trump’s presidency was above average (including 73% who said he was one of the best presidents), whereas only 34% of the Israeli left held positive views of him.<\/p>\n

Respondents were also asked to gauge how Americans would describe Trump’s presidency. Nearly half (48%) believed that, even from an American perspective, Trump<\/a> would be considered above-average or one of the best presidents.<\/p>\n

\"WITHWITH PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu at his side at Ben-Gurion Airport, US President Donald Trump concludes his trip to Israel in October. (credit: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN\/REUTERS)<\/p>\n

However, an additional 20% believed he would be remembered as one of the worst presidents in US history, and another 20% thought he would be considered below average or average.<\/p>\n

In a similar poll of American voters conducted by Siena College and the New York Times, only 19% of Americans said they believed Trump would be remembered as one of the best presidents in US history, and 42% believed he would be remembered as one of the worst.<\/p>\n

Majority of Israelis believe Israel won war with Hamas<\/p>\n

The JPPI poll also investigated the Israeli public’s reaction to the current conclusion of the Gaza war, ahead of the full implementation of the second phase<\/a> of Trump’s Gaza peace agreement.<\/p>\n

Among respondents, 54% believe that Israel won the war. This result is stronger among Jewish respondents, with 60% believing in Israel’s victory, compared to Arab respondents, of whom only 25% shared that opinion.<\/p>\n

Among right-wing Israelis, 83% believed that Israel defeated Hamas, while 63% of left-wing Israelis described the outcome as a failure or incomplete achievement.<\/p>\n

There were also strong correlations between coalition voters and beliefs on Israel’s war outcomes.<\/p>\n

Approximately 51% of Likud<\/a> voters and 69% of Religious Zionism voters expressed that an insufficient victory was achieved.<\/p>\n

However, half of Democrats voters (52%) believed that Israel lost or came close to losing the war.<\/p>\n

Data for JPPI\u2019s February 2026 Israeli Society Index was collected February 1\u20134, 2026. Data collection was conducted via the Madad\u00a0website panel (588 Jewish respondents in an online survey) and Afkar Research (207 Arab respondents, roughly half online and half by telephone). The data was analyzed and weighted by voting pattern and religiosity to represent the views of the adult population in Israel. The JPPI Israeli Society Index is compiled by Shmuel Rosner and Noah Slepkov with research, production, and writing assistance by Yael Levinovsky. Prof. David Steinberg serves as statistical consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly three-quarters of Israelis say that US President Donald Trump’s policy on Israel is better-than-average, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,60,42,46,21141,43,17154,35649,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-286117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza-war","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-poll","tag-religious-zionist-party","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}