A new poll by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that only 57% of Israelis now believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to launch military operations against Iran was driven primarily by strategic security concerns, reflecting a sharp rise in public doubt about the conflict's aims and outcomes. The survey, conducted on 9–10 April among 1,312 Israelis, found that "despair" was the most commonly chosen word to describe respondents' current emotional state, and that the vast majority do not believe Iran or Hezbollah (the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group) has been severely weakened by recent US-Israeli bombardment. Despite widespread war-weariness — with Israel now more than two and a half years into overlapping conflicts — two-thirds of respondents still oppose the current tentative ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, underscoring a deeply conflicted public mood as parliamentary elections loom later this year.