The poll was carried out from October 3-5 by the non-partisan McLaughlin and Associates survey research group for the pro-Israel Emergency Committee for Israel.
Modeled deliberately on the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the main pro-Israel lobbying group, the CANF changed American policy toward Cuba.
Lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi, head of parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee during the time of the prisoner's detention in 2010, told Israel Radio on Sunday his committee was frequently briefed by Israel's intelligence bodies on matters of national security, but he was never told about the prisoner.
Mr Indyk himself, originally an Australian, once worked for the chief Israeli lobby in America, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, before becoming a diplomat and serving twice as America's ambassador to Israel.
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Barack Obama delivered a speech on Wednesday, June 4, before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Participants included - From Israel: Michael Turner, Chair, Israel World Heritage Committee.
Test this electoral strength against, say, the might of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and it seems like a scimitar taking on an Uzi.
He's also met with leaders of organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to address the accusations behind closed doors.
"They are leading the public astray and are causing a great negative influence on the young generation, " says Rabbi Efraim Luft, head of an ultra-orthodox organisation in Israel called the Committee for Jewish Music.
Emanuel, who served in the White House when Bill Clinton was president and is a member of the Illinois congressional delegation, tells NPR's Robert Siegel that he wanted to stand in alliance with Obama at Wednesday's Washington conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
As the Emergency Committee for Israel's Chairman Bill Kristol summarized the poll's findings in The Weekly Standard, 69% of Republicans are more likely to vote for a pro-Israel candidate, while only 40% of Democrats are.
Netanyahu said at a closed-door Knesset committee meeting that Israel would agree only to a partial reduction of housing construction and for a limited time, not the year the United States would like, said a government official who was not authorized to speak about the meeting and did not want to be identified.
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Earlier in the week, Netanyahu said in a closed-door Knesset committee meeting that Israel would agree only to a partial reduction of housing construction and for a limited time, not the year the United States would like, said a government official who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the meeting.
Israel, who also led the campaign committee in 2012, said candidate recruitment is the most pressing task for now.
New York Rep. Steve Israel, the Democrats' House campaign committee chairman, said Mr. Obama's fundraising will complement rather than undercut his legislative aims.
Last Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee that Arab support for Israel's bid to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is contingent on its agreeing to support the rapid establishment of a Palestinian state.
That committee's report, which Israel has also accepted, calls for an unconditional cessation of violence, a series of confidence-building steps, and ultimately the resumption of peace talks.
But another Democrat, Jane Harman, who is equally as supportive of Israel, was denied the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee.
Rep. Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a former public-relations manager, said he prefers the period over an exclamation point or nothing at all.
When Secretary of State Colin Powell testified last week before a House committee, he said it was Palestinian attacks on Israel and a lack of Palestinian peace proposals that have kept progress from being made toward a peace agreement.
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When polled recently by the American Jewish Committee, a majority of American Jews said they support Israel's peace efforts with the Palestinians and Arab states.
On Wednesday afternoon Abbas convened the PLO's Executive Committee in Ramallah and the body announced that future negotiations with Israel will have to be based on new preconditions.
While the media and the professorate pilloried their reports, the group's charges caused the Council for Higher Education to form a blue ribbon committee last November comprised of seven political scientists - three from Israel and four from abroad -- to conduct a study of all of the political science departments in Israeli universities.
During the transitional period, representatives of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and the self-governing authority will constitute a continuing committee to decide by agreement on the modalities of admission of persons displaced from the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, together with necessary measures to prevent disruption and disorder.
Surveys of the American Jewish community taken in recent years by the American Jewish Committee demonstrate that the vast majority of American Jews are deeply supportive of Israel, and their views tend toward the Right side of the political spectrum in issues related to Israel, the Palestinians and the wider Islamic conflict with the Jewish state.
Last year, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz demanded that her Republican colleagues avoid making Israel a "wedge issue, " that would distinguish Democrats from Republicans.
Yet neither the CAMERA poll nor previous surveys by the American Jewish Committee or Brandeis which had similar findings asked respondents to weigh their support for Israel against support for the Democratic Party.
While most estimates are than only 20%-35% of American Jews have traveled to Israel, in a recent survey of more than 1, 000 American Jews by the American Jewish Committee 41% said they had visited.
Israel and the Palestinians agreed they would be responsible for archaeology in their respective areas and set up a joint committee on the issue, but currently there is no archaeological co-operation between the two sides.
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