Science in Israel

ICT Implementation in Mathematics and Science Education Study in Israel: Insights from SITES 2006

The paper herewith presents findings from the third stage of the Second International Technology in Education Study (SITES2006), conducted between the years 2005-2007 as a survey of schools and teachers. The study was aimed to identify ICT-related pedagogical practices in mathematics and science in lower secondary Grade 8 level. This was achieved using an online data collection system. Results ...

The Challenges Facing State-Nation-Building in Israel

Completing the nation-building process for survival is one of the challenges that the Zionist regime has always faced. This regime has based its existence on a specific and complex identity that, at first glance, can be a strong point for the survival and formation of a society, but the specific characteristics of this identity based on race and population inequality, for This has posed some ch...

Religious-Secular Cleavage and Political Stability in Israel

Due to its artificial and unnatural structure, Israeli society has since the beginning of its establishment, been a context for the emergence of different kinds of cleavages and tensions. This state of affairs has endangered the political stability of the Israeli regime. The present research is trying to answer this question: what is the effect of religious-secular cleavages in Israel on the fu...

Pediatric Practice in Israel 2016: Combining the Art of Medicine and Science.

Down syndrome in Israel.

The incidence of Down syndrome was studied in Jerusalem for the years 1964-1970 showing an overall incidence rate of 2.43 per 1,000 live births. A National Down Syndrome Register was established in 1978 and data on annual incidence and mortality rates from 1979-1997 is presented. The incidence in 1997 was 1.0 per 1,000 live births, but 2.32 per 1,000, when live births and terminated pregnancies...