The rejection of the Israeli national team at Indonesian U-20 World Cup became controversial because FIFA cancelled Indonesia as host Cup. This drew pros and cons from society a hot conversation topic international level. study examines explores public social media conversations regarding in to determine main actors who dominated discussion concerning cancellation U- 20 research aims identify k...

People depend on human infrastructure for a range of activities in their daily lives, such as work and socializing. In this paper we consider three different intertwined types of infrastructures of a society that may be affected in crisis situations: the physical, technological, and human infrastructures. We argue that when the human infrastructure is damaged, e.g. in a natural catastrophe or w...

We discuss mirror symmetry in generalized Calabi–Yau compactifications of type II string theories with background NS fluxes. Starting from type IIB compactified on Calabi– Yau threefolds with NS three-form flux we show that the mirror type IIA theory arises from a purely geometrical compactification on a different class of six-manifolds. These mirror manifolds have SU(3) structure and are terme...

In Israel, genetic screening and testing are widespread and are on the rise. The socialized medical system, the governmental National Program for the Detection and Prevention of Birth Defects, the central registry of genetic disorders, and the availability of medical genetic units influence the extensive utilization of genetic services. Israeli society is a complex one-ethnically, religiously, ...

BACKGROUND In societies facing prolonged exposure to war and terror, empirical research provides mixed support for the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom clusters groupings identified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR) as re-experiencing the event, avoidance and emotional numbing, and hyperarousal. METHOD This study examines the validity of the PTSD symptom cluster...

According to several international surveys Spain is among the western countries with the most negative views of Jews. While quantitative data on the topic accumulates, there is a significant lack of interpretative approaches that might explain the particular Spanish case. This paper 15 presents the background, methodology and major results of a discussion group-based study on antisemitism, whic...

Abstract “This study analyses civil society organisations’ ( cso s’) discourse on children’s rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories opt ). This is a troubled context, for Israel – ‘State Party’ to United Nation’s Convention Rights of Child crc ), disputes that its obligations extend . In consequence, there has been dearth official data and scholarly attention situation. Discourse analys...

Abstract:This study intends to review Israel's efforts to increase political and economic relations with Arab countries. It is clear that most Arab countries did not have any ties with Israel since the 1980s, and only two Egyptian states had established political relations with Israel since the 1973 war. But over the past few years, and especially after the start of the third millennium, ...

The 1993 and 1995 Oslo accords resulted in the classification of the West Bank into three zones, referred to as Areas A, B and C. Area A is under Palestinian civil and security authority; Area B is under the Palestinian Authority while security responsibilities are shared by both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities. Area C which comprises around 60 percent of the West Bank is under Isra...

[l] We use the term, trio, because most reports late in 1987 were about the Pakistani/Brain, the Lehigh and the Hebrew University viruses. Actually the Hebrew University wrus was not a single virus but consisted of several very s~rmlar viruses. was a boot sector infector. The Lehigh virus and the Israeli viruses infected executable code. The former attached itself only to COMMAND.COM; the Israe...