As cabinet mulls tighter lockdown, Israel Democracy Institute study finds growing numbers of Israelis fear for their economic future and distrust the government's decisions

As Rosh Hashana approaches amid a pandemic and political deadlock, two-thirds say country's mood is glum, and 40% think next year will be worse

43% of Israelis worked from home in July, vs 9% pre-pandemic; lower-income workers and those far from country's center are sidelined; 80% want to continue working at home

Public confidence in Netanyahu's management of crisis remains low; economic anxiety eases somewhat

Lacking a coherent strategy, the protest seeking the PM's ouster seems to have little interest in broadening its coalition or restraining its radicals

The danger to democracy looms larger than security threat, poll says; majority see Netanyahu's handling of the coronavirus as 'poor' and most oppose new elections

While office presence used to be largely mandatory, the coronavirus has proved that working remotely from home is very feasible. Is the trend good or bad, and is it here to stay?

Only 29.5% of Israelis trust the PM to handle coronavirus crisis, Israel Democracy Institute reports; 75% are negative toward government's performance so far

Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler says Israeli surveillance is much closer to China in terms of invasion of citizens' privacy than to European governments or liberal Asian countries

Previous crises have shown economists that if young unemployed men and women don't get back to work quickly, they could get stuck on the margins of the labor force for good