Poll: In new low, just 28% of Israelis think Trump prioritizing Israel’s security

Figure marks sharp dip from 64% who believed Trump put Israel’s security in March; only 38% of respondents say Israel in a strategically better place than before Iran war

Only 28 percent of Israelis think their country’s security is one of US President Donald Trump’s main considerations — a drop from 44% last month, according to a poll by the Israel Democracy Institute released on Tuesday.

The finding came more than four months after the US and Israel jointly launched a war against the Iranian regime, and amid concerns from Israeli officials over the Trump administration’s negotiations with the Islamic Republic to permanently end that conflict.

The poll found that just 26% of Jewish Israelis and 36% of Arab Israelis think that Israel’s security is one of Trump’s main considerations, marking a record low of 28% of Israelis overall.

When the views of Jewish Israelis are broken down by political beliefs, the survey showed that a majority across the spectrum do not believe Trump is prioritizing their security — 81% of those on the left, 73% in the center, and 65% of those on the right.

In March, 64% of Jewish Israelis thought Trump prioritized their security, the IDI noted.

The poll also found just 38% of Israelis believe the country is in a better strategic situation today than it was before Israel and the US launched the war against Iran in February.

The fighting entered a truce on April 8, and the US and Iran are engaged in peace talks based on the memorandum of understanding they reached last month.

Israel is not a party to the memorandum or the talks, and Israeli officials have criticized the document for failing to secure a concrete concession from Iran on its nuclear program.

The US president has publicly insulted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over matters relating to the fighting in Iran and against Tehran’s proxy, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, referring to the prime minister as “fucking crazy,” saying he has “no fucking judgement” and that the Israeli leader “knows who the boss is.”

Netanyahu has sought to downplay those comments, insisting on Monday that “America has no greater ally than Israel and Israel has no greater ally than the United States.”

The IDI poll surveyed more than 750 respondents between June 28 and July 1 and has a 3.57% margin of error.