If Israelis could vote in the American elections, they would want either a President Hillary Clinton or a President Donald Trump, according to findings from the Israeli Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s monthly Peace Index poll, released on Sunday.

Of the Democratic Party candidates, 40.5 percent of survey respondents said they prefer Clinton “from Israel’s standpoint.” As for Bernie Sanders, 16.5 percent prefer him, while 10 percent say both candidates would be bad for Israel.

When asked if Trump is “friendly to Israel,” 61 percent of Jewish Israelis responded in the affirmative. To the same question, 44 percent of Arab Israelis responded “I don’t know.”

Of the Jewish respondents, 34 percent said that they think a Republican president would be better for Israel, while 28 percent said the same of a Democratic president. An opposite phenomenon was seen among Arab Israeli respondents when asked which party would be more pro-Israel.

Forty-seven percent said a Democratic president would be more pro-Israel, 30 percent said there would be no difference and 23 percent said that a Republican president would be more pro-Israel.

Regarding whether or not Jerusalem is already a divided city, 61 percent of Jewish Israelis said yes. Meanwhile, 47 percent of Arab Israelis answered the same. When the question was asked in 1999, only 44 percent of Jewish respondents said Jerusalem was divided.

The survey was conducted via telephone between February 28 and March 1, reaching 600 respondents, which the institute said constituted a representative sample of Israel’s adult population over the age of 18. There was a 4.1 percent margin of error.

By Michelle Malka Grossman /Jerusalem Post