Haj is one of the five cardinal components of Islam commonly known as the five pillars of Islam. Approximately two million Muslims perform it each year. Haj involves travel to the holy sites in and around Mecca and Medina during a specified short period of time in a limited space, not usually inhabited by such a large number of people. This article deals with the effects of this event on diabet...

The growth pattern of infants from birth to 2 years of age was studied in a homogenous Moslem semirural community near Jerusalem. The weight of the study population was compared with that of children from a western neighbourhood in Jerusalem and the National Centre of Health Statistics standard. The Abu Ghosh children are lighter than the Jerusalem and the National Centre of Health Statistics p...

I. Introduction This article offers an empirical study of labor supply among married women belonging to the three major religions in Israel: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. In addition, this article offers clues on how religion affects women's value of time in marriage by examining religious differentials in the effect of husband's income, number of children, education, and age on women's lab...

Briefly, Moslem world has been left behind in many aspects, politic, economy, education, more over sciences and technology. One of the ways out proposed by contemporal Muslim Thinkers, such as Naquib al-Attas Islamail Raji al-Faruqi, is that should integrate empirical religous science. The Integration aims at elimanating dichotomy between sciences, so can develope two well build both rational c...

Background: Israel has served for almost half a century as a site for epidemiologic studies of multiple sclerosis (MS). Its small geographic size, well-equipped, accessible, and subsidized health facilities, trained physicians, detailed census data, and a National MS Register, maintained since 1960, offer advantages for accurate determinations of MS frequency in its diverse populations. Method:...