Media is considered as an important social institution in society it the main source of knowledge about what going on across world influencing people and shaping their points view concerning a given event. More specifically, this study textual analysis coverage international event, Palestinian membership United Nations seen from two western media networks CNN, BBC. It investigates discourse eac...

The popularity of social networking sites has facilitated new modes of teacher-student communication, conveying the potential of changing teacher-students interaction. The goal of this chapter is to examine students’ and teachers’ perceptions of student-teacher SNS-based relationships in the Facebook era and to supply evidence that supports decision making. The authors present two studies invol...

The paper analyses the economic assimilation of first, 1.5, and second generation Israeli Jewish immigrants in the United States. The empirical analyses are based on the 1990 public use sample (PUMS) that enables the identification of adult children of Jewish Israeli immigrants. The analyses show that all groups of Jewish Israeli immigrants in the United States are doing very well relative to a...

We report the athletic, physiological and mitochondrial-related genomic data of an Israeli endurance runner. He is holding the Israeli record in 10000, 5000, 1500 and 800m run, along with being one of the best Israeli 400m runners. We tested the ACTN3 R577X, and six polymorphisms in the PPARGC1A-NRF-TFAM pathway genes. The case athlete was heterozygous for the ACTN3 R577X variation and had five...

Many readers of this journal will, like me, have israeli colleagues whose research we respect, with whom we have collaborated, and among whom we have friends. yet, these relationships have been overshadowed by the human rights abuses inflicted against the palestinians, israel’s flouting of uN resolutions and its indifference to international law. in 2002, this unease was given public expression...

120 normal right-handed subjects, children and adults, with opposite reading habits (60 French, left-to-right readers, 60 Israeli, right-to-left readers) and 60 pre-school children (30 French and 30 Israeli), were submitted to a visuo-motor bisection task. Bisection is found to be dependent upon reading habits with a leftward deviation of the subjective middle for left-to-right readers, and a r...