7/19/2025–|Last update: 01:55 (Mecca time)
A new survey broadcast by the 13th Israeli channel revealed on Friday evening that 71.6% of the Israelis support a complete prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, including ending the war on the Gaza Strip and returning all Israeli prisoners.
The results of the survey came in response to the statements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the current week, in which he said that “surveys about the deal are fabricated and misleading the public,” according to the channel itself.
The poll showed that only 13.4% of Israelis prefer the war without any deal, while 5.9% said they support the conclusion of a partial deal.
Hours ago, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz met his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, at the headquarters of the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) in Washington, to discuss the war on the Gaza Strip, the files of Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
Earlier on Friday, the official radio authority said that Israel is considering sending a second delegation from its senior officials, to Doha with the aim of achieving a breakthrough in the exchange deal with the Palestinian factions in Gaza.
Since July 6, indirect negotiations are taking place in Doha between Hamas and Israel through Egypt and Qatar and the support of the United States, where there is an Israeli delegation participating in these negotiations.
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump said that “he has good news about the Gaza Strip,” without disclosing details in this regard.
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The recruitment of the Haredim
With regard to the crisis of the recruitment of Haridim (religious Jews), 63.3% of the Israelis said, according to the same poll, that Netanyahu is making his decisions based on the satisfaction of the Haredim and the preservation of the government coalition, while only 18.4% said that the Prime Minister puts the needs of the army and the principle of equality in the burden as a priority.
45.5% of the respondents confirmed that this issue will significantly affect their vote in the upcoming elections.
Al -Haidim continues their protests against service in the army after the decision of the Supreme Court (the highest judicial body) issued on June 25, 2024, to compel them to recruit and prevent the provision of financial assistance to religious institutions whose students reject military service.
The “Haridim” constitutes about 13% of the 10 million Israeli population, and they reject military service on the pretext of dedicating their lives to study the Torah, stressing that the integration into secular society constitutes a threat to their religious identity and the continuity of their society.
For decades, members of the sect were able to avoid recruitment upon the age of 18, by obtaining repeated postponements under the pretext of studying in religious institutes, until they reach the age of exemption from service, which is currently 26 years old.
The opposition accuses Netanyahu of seeking to pass a law that relieves “Al -Haridim” from recruitment, in response to the demands of the “Shas” and “Hedoura” party participants in the government coalition, with the aim of maintaining the stability of his government and preventing its collapse.
These developments come at a time when Israel continues, with American support, to launch a mass extermination war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
The extermination left more than 198,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the famine, many of them, including dozens of children.
