BACKGROUND Hypertension is one of the most prevalent vascular diseases in the adult population. It is an important determinant of atherosclerosis in adolescents and young adults. There is to date no information on blood pressure in children of the Israeli Arab population. OBJECTIVES To study blood pressure in Israeli Arab children and adolescents. METHODS Blood pressure measurements were ta...

The 1 French-Israeli International Conference on B Cells and Therapeutic Antibodies, organized by Reuven Laskov (Israel), Jean-Luc Teillaud (France) and Claude-Agnès Reynaud (France) under the auspices of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University Paris Descartes, was held October 23–25, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. The conference featured 36 presentations and a dozen posters. It inclu...

Two studies, conducted 3 months before the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and the Northern West Bank, examined whether reminders of death would lead right-wing Israelis to endorse violent resistance against the disengagement plan. More specifically, we hypothesized that this reaction would be particularly strong among participants high in denial--those who were unable to come to terms with...

THE FORMER RAND AFRIKAANS UNIVERSITY, now University of Johannesburg, has acted against its own and the South African national interest by terminating the 25-year-old collaboration with the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Around the World item “End to partnership with Israeli university,” News of the Week, 1 April, p. 19). Boycotts of Israeli scientists, science institutions, and worse, res...

This analytical article examines the approaches of Israeli government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, who assumed power in Israel on June 13, 2021, to two key threats security: a potential “nuclear deal” with Iran (Iran's nuclear program advancement) amid Iranian regime's support for Palestinian factions Gaza Strip problem Palestinian-Israeli conflict settlement. The au...

The effect of gender on the use of cognitive structuring (CS) is examined in three studies (n = 356). Study 1 showed that Israeli men use less diagnostic information (display more confirmation bias) than Israeli women. Study 2 demonstrated that Polish adolescent male but not female were influenced by implicit cues in a judgment task a Study 3 showed that the correlation between trait anxiety an...

After four harmonious years of US-Israeli relations, during which the Trump administration was closely aligned with Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, r...