[Tel Aviv University] Ephraim Yaar and Tamar Hermann - On the eve of Israel's 60th Independence Day, 75% of the Israeli Jewish public thinks that Israel will find itself at war with one or more Arab states in the next five years. Only 19% support an Israeli withdrawal from all of the Golan Heights for a full peace treaty with Syria while 75% oppose it. As for the Palestinians, 70% support the formula of "two states for two peoples." Regarding Jerusalem, 55% vs. 40% are not willing to see Arab neighborhoods handed over to Palestinian sovereignty, 60% are not in favor of joint Israeli-Palestinian administration of the Temple Mount and the Jerusalem holy places, and 83% oppose handing over the Old City to the Palestinians. Tel Aviv University's War and Peace Index was launched as the Peace Index in September 1993. The change in name reflects the worsening of relations between Israel and the Arab and Islamic world in recent years.
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