Director: Professor Asher Arian
Advisors: Prof. Elihu Katz and Prof. Michal Shamir
Staff: Dr. Raphael Ventura and Mr. Eliyahu Sapir
The Guttman Center holds the largest, most comprehensive database on public opinion surveys in Israel. Over a span of sixty years, the Institute, based in Jerusalem, has applied rigorous, innovative, and pioneering research methods enhanced by its unique “continuing survey.” It has documented the attitudes of the Israeli public regarding thousands of issues, in all aspects of life, in over 1,200 studies that have been conducted since 1947: from everyday concerns to politics, culture, ideology, religion, education, and national security.
The Continuing Survey is a general name for practical surveys conducted in various sectors, which aim to examine public life. The survey examines specific problems among respondents, alongside more general "social indicators," in order to measure variables that serve as a basis for understanding trends in public response. The Continuing Survey on public problems and public opinion has followed consistent social indices throughout the years of the Institute’s activity.
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IDI's Guttman Center was presented with the Tolerance Award on June 17th, 2006 from Tolerance - a non-partisan movement to curtail violence. According to Tolerance, the Guttman Center received the prize for strengthening democratic institutions and promoting research on tolerance.