Episode 135 | Israeli public opinion

Richard Pater speaks to Professor Tamar Hermann, a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and the Academic Director of the Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research. Richard and Tamar discuss the Israeli public response to the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and how the issue has affected the ultra-Orthodox community in particular. They also discuss the openness of Israel’s Arab community to further integrate into Israeli society, and the big issues facing voters in the March election.