Hours after US President Barack Obama headed home from the Middle East Saturday, 39 percent of Israelis said their opinion of him had changed for the better as a result of his visit, a Channel 2 poll found.
Only 2% percent said their attitude to him had changed for the worse, 54% were unchanged from their previous view of the president, and 5% didn’t know.
The snap survey — which did not ask that 54% unchanged sector what their previous view of the president had been — was conducted among 417 Israelis with a margin of error of 4.7%, the TV report said.
Asked if they believed Obama when he said he would prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, 58% responded that they believed him, 38% said they did not believe him, and 4% didn’t know, the same poll found.
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