It found that 48 percent of respondents believed Israel should continue building homes for Jews in east Jerusalem, despite the anger such action has provoked in the United States and elsewhere.
Forty-one percent felt Israel should stop such construction until the conclusion of peace talks with the Palestinians.
The survey, conducted on Wednesday and Thursday, questioned 499 people and had a 4.3 percentage point margin of error, the left-leaning newspaper said.
The Middle East diplomatic Quartet urged Israel on Friday to stop building settlements and set a 2012 target for a deal with the Palestinians.
An Israeli plan to build more homes in annexed east Jerusalem precipitated the worst crisis in US-Israeli relations in years.
East Jerusalem is the mainly Arab half of the Holy City that was captured and then annexed by Israel after the 1967 Six Day War. Israel considers the city its eternal and indivisible capital, while the Palestinians want east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
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The president was also seen making telephone calls, laughing and joking, as he resumed some political activity. Before the operation, Mubarak temporarily handed powers to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif.
"God willing at the end of the week," Mubarak said on the phone, in a possible reference to his return to Cairo.
"It's been a tough one," he said, laughing, the first time his voice was heard since surgery.
"These were pictures of President Mubarak looking well and following up on state matters," the presenter on Egyptian TV said.
The official MENA news agency said Mubarak had made several phone calls on Friday, including to Saudi King Abdullah and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to thank them for wishing him well.
"President Mubarak is continuing his contacts with Arab and world leaders and kings who made contacts earlier to check on his health," a statement from the ministry of information said.
Earlier, Mubarak issued a presidential decree appointing Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb the new grand imam of Al-Azhar -- Sunni Islam's main seat of learning -- after the sudden death of Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi on March 10.
He issued another decree establishing a church for Coptic Christians in the Helwan province.
On Tuesday, Egyptian TV had aired the first footage of Mubarak -- with no sound -- and his doctor had described him as "upbeat and in very good spirits."
Until then, the president had made no appearances in public or on television and no pictures of him had been published, causing a stock market dip on Monday over speculation about his health.
Professor Markus Buchler, the doctor who performed Mubarak's surgery, said on Tuesday that no further daily follow-up laboratory investigations were required.
Mubarak had his gall bladder and a growth on the small intestine removed on March 6.
Analysts say the president's health, usually a closely guarded secret that has led to journalists being punished for questioning it, has intensified talk over his eventual succession.
Mubarak, president since 1981, has no vice president. The veteran leader's fifth six-year term ends in 2011, but he has not indicated whether he will run again next year.
His son Gamal has not commented on widespread speculation that he would succeed his father.
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"The Quartet urges the government of Israel to freeze all settlement activity," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said after the meeting of the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, European Union and Russia.
He said at the meeting hosted by Russia that Israel should also halt natural settlement growth, dismantle outposts erected since March 2001 and refrain from demolitions and evictions in east Jerusalem.
The Israeli plan to build more homes in annexed east Jerusalem led the Palestinians to call for a halt to peace talks and precipitated the worst crisis in US-Israeli relations in years.
East Jerusalem is the mainly Arab half of the Holy City which was captured and then annexed by Israel after the 1967 Six Day War.
Condemning the new settlement plan, the Quartet noted that Israel's annexation of east Jerusalem was not recognised by the international community and the city's status had to be resolved through negotiations.
With the peace process stagnant, the Quartet also urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume talks on final status issues with the aim of finding a settlement "within 24 months", Ban said, reading from the Quartet's statement.
He said such a settlement would end "the occupation which began in 1967 and result in the emergence of an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel".
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman gave the statement a frosty reception and appeared particularly irked by its explicit target of a peace deal in two years' time.
"Peace cannot be imposed artificially and with an unrealistic calendar," Lieberman was quoted as saying in an address to the Jewish community in Brussels. "This type of statement only harms the possibilities of reaching an accord."
He said the timetable gives the Palestinians the wrong impression "that by failing to negotiate directly they will achieve their goals by using all sorts of pretexts."
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat welcomed the Quartet's call, but asked also for a mechanism to "make sure that Israel does effectively halt completely all settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem."
The timing of Israel's settlement announcement had infuriated Washington -- Israel's chief ally -- coming as US Vice President Joe Biden visited the region.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Clinton late Thursday following a tense call last week when she had asked him to order a halt to the settler plans.
Clinton said Friday that the strong US reaction to Israeli settlement plans is "paying off".
"What I heard from the prime minister in response for the request we made was useful and productive, and we're continuing our discussions with him and his government," Clinton told AFP and other reporters in Moscow.
"It's one of the reasons Senator (George) Mitchell will be going back to the region and meeting with him in just a few days," Clinton said.
On Friday, Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli security forces in the West Bank and east Jerusalem during anti-settlement protests after the Muslim Friday prayers.
As well as Clinton and Ban, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton attended Friday's meeting, along with former British prime minister Tony Blair, who is the Quartet's representative.
Ashton's visit to Moscow came a day after she made a rare trip by a top foreign official to the Gaza Strip that was overshadowed by fresh violence when rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed a Thai agricultural worker in Israel.
Ban said the quartet was "deeply concerned" about the situation in Gaza, "including the humanitarian and human rights situation of the civilian population."
Amid an intense flurry of diplomatic activity, Ban is to visit the Middle East, including Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, this weekend while US special Middle East envoy George Mitchell was expected in the region on Sunday.
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"For the most part, people who were collecting black and whites in the 1970s and 80s were not interested in color at all. Then they were worried about the longevity of it. But now the camps are coming together."
The show, which opened Thursday, features works from more than 70 major photography galleries, including a wide range of museum-quality work, modern and 19th century photographs, photo-based art, video and new media.
The New York show is the longest running and among the most important exhibitions of fine art photography.
The works range from those of digital media artist Shirley Shor, whose alternating images of a man's and a woman's face is listed for sale at 20,000 dollars, to the 1856 black and white still life of early French photographer Adolphe Braun.
"It is only a bouquet of flowers, but the range of tones between black and white is impressive for the period, and this photo remains intact after 150 years," said Paris gallery owner Jonas Tebib, who lists the print at 6,000 dollars.
The highest price tag of the show goes to a unique 1921 print by US photographer Edward Weston, who died in 1958. This is the first time Weston's photograph of a naked woman's bust is shown in public, and the owner is asking for 650,000 dollars.
Andy Warhol's black and white photographs from 1976 to 1979 are displayed by Steven Kasher Gallery, which is also showing the first ever prints of autochrome prints from the National Geographic collection dated 1907-1925.
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Following these discussions, according to defense lawyers, the prosecutor in the case dropped an effort to have the judge removed.
Because of these irregularities, "The need for this court's immediate review is compelling," Polanski lawyers Chad Hummel and Bart Dalton wrote in their petition.
The attorneys cited an "urgent need for a full evidentiary hearing" into alleged misconduct by Judge Rittenband.
Polanski is under house arrest in Switzerland and has been held since September on a US arrest warrant for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl three decades ago.
Swiss authorities have yet to rule on whether to grant a US request to extradite him.
Polanski, 76, has already asked that the charges be dropped because the trial was unfair, but a court rejected that request in December.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker fled the United States 32 years ago before being sentenced in the child sex case. He had been living in France until his arrest last year in Switzerland.
Polanski is alleged to have given his victim champagne and drugs during a 1977 photo shoot at the Hollywood Hills home of actor friend Jack Nicholson before having sex with her despite her protests.
He was initially charged with six felony counts, including rape and sodomy. The charge was later reduced to unlawful sexual intercourse after a plea deal agreed in part to spare his victim the ordeal of a trial.
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