A new study reveals that most Israeli Arabs plan to stay home during the Jan. 22 elections day, as they see "no point" in voting, the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.

The survey was conducted by the Abraham Fund Initiative, which works to achieve equality between Jews and Arabs, among five focus groups and a total of 500 respondents.

A majority of the respondents said they think their votes are ineffective, as 51 percent of them said they would stay home because their voices would not influence the decision-making.

The survey shows the topics that Israeli Arabs, who constitute 20 percent of Israel's population, consider to be of high importance include education, unemployment and battling crime.

On that aspect, it was recently published that 30 percent of Israeli Arabs are unemployed and only 11 percent of university graduates are Arabs, as only 57 percent take the required matriculation exam in high school and the formal education system for the Arabs is deteriorating.

In 2009, the Arabs turnout for voting stood at 53 percent, an all-time low. The last time a left-wing party won the elections was in 1999, when many of the Israeli Arabs voted for Ehud Barak.

The survey found that the Arab citizens feel that the power which the small Arab parties in the Knesset (parliament) have is marginal.

If Jewish leaders were to include Arab contenders in their lists, it would increase the likelihood of voting among 52 percent of the total sample and 42 percent of those who do not vote at all.

"We are very disturbed by the consistent drop in the level of participation of Arab citizens in various spheres of society, and particularly in the political system," Abraham Fund co-directors, Amnon Be'eri Sulitzeanu and Mohammad Darawshe, said in a statement on Sunday.

"This decline is a recipe for social instability and for a profound social and ethnic rift that will not be easy to repair in the future," they added.