The number of Arab Israelis who deny Israel's right to exist as a Jewish and Zionist state rose to 66.4 percent in 2010 while 29.5 percent opposed its existence under any terms, a poll said.
The survey of 1,411 Jewish and Arab Israeli adults conducted by Haifa University professor Sammy Smooha and published on Sunday said the respective numbers in 2003 were 61.4 percent and 11.2 percent.
Indicating growing radicalisation in the views of each group about the other, the 2010 survey found that 32.5 percent of Jewish Israelis supported revoking their Arab compatriots' right to vote, compared to 24 percent in 1985.
"The results of the Jewish-Arab relations index for 2010 point to a growing distance between the positions of Arab and Jewish citizens and an additional radicalisation in the positions of Arabs," the university said in a statement accompanying the survey findings.
It said that 62.5 percent of the Arab respondents saw the Jews as "foreign settlers who do not fit into the region and will eventually leave, when the land will return to the Palestinians."
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