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The study presents the results of the most recent public opinion survey on questions of national security conducted regularly over the past twenty-seven years by INSS. It compares the data with findings from previous surveys, focusing largely on data since 2006 and thereby giving a picture of key trends in Israeli public opinion over a six year period. The authors show that the political center continues to dominate Israeli public opinion, continuing a trend of previous years. At the same time, the slow but steady shift of recent years to the right was arrested, and to some degree even reversed. Overall, there remains a good deal of flexibility in Israeli public opinion, which under certain circumstances – especially strong and charismatic political leadership, backed by a vibrant and united government – allows considerable room for creative measures.