(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) According to a poll conducted by Israel Hayom and the New Wave Research Institute, 74 percent of the Jewish public in Israel think that Operation Protective Edge should be called a war. An even higher percentage of women and residents of southern Israel (around 80 percent) said it was a war. Sixty-three percent of respondents said they were satisfied with the conduct of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Gaza fighting, and a similar percentage expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the Israel Defense Forces. Eighty-six percent of people polled saw the elimination of the terror tunnels leading into Israel as a “significant achievement” for Israel, and 70 percent agreed that Hamas had been dealt a harsh blow. However, while a majority (53 percent) of respondents agreed that the IDF had increased its deterrence, nearly half (49 percent) of those polled said they believed that the war had ended without any victor.