The Ethiopian-Jewish community in Israel is an immigrant population numbering 131 400 as of 2012. Many arrived from 1980 to 1992 by airborne operations coordinated by the Israeli government. Immigration was prompted by Israeli recognition of the community's Jewish citizenship eligibility status. This period in Israel's history saw the First Lebanon War, the First Intifada, the Gulf War and the ...

The one-state reality has dramatically changed the discursive landscape of movement Israeli settlers and their supporters who have waged a half century campaign to prevent territorial compromise as basis for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Analysis discourse Sovereignty movement, reflected in pages its journal, Ribonut , traces these changes highlights new challenges posed annexationist project by p...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the incidence and clinical features of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) among Israeli Arab adolescents and to determine the HLA typing profile in affected subjects. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Junior high school in the largest Arab town in Israel. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred seventy-seven Israeli Arab junior high school students filled out a ques...

BACKGROUND Ongoing conflict in the Middle East poses a major threat to health and security. A project screening Arab and Israeli newborns for hearing loss provided an opportunity to evaluate ways for building cooperation. The aims of this study were to: a) examine what attracted Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian participants to the project, b) describe challenges they faced, and c) draw lesson...

OBJECTIVE To develop a nutritional dietary intake database based on available reliable international nutritional databases adapted to the local needs of a specific population. DESIGN The Negev Nutritional Study (NNS) is a survey of a random sample of the Negev population regarding their dietary intake using 24-hour dietary recalls. A nutritional database for the Israeli population was develop...

This ethnography analyzes three Israeli Reform Jewish rituals as manifestations of interreligious hospitality. The Daniel congregation invites Muslim residents Jaffa to participate in incorporating Arabic and clergy prayers. egalitarian pluralistic symbols narratives promote neighborly relationships. Nevertheless, some participants’ responses reaffirm popular suspicions prejudices, which the ce...

Abstract In studying electoral reforms, the democratic context is often a neglected variable. Israel and Turkey, at different times with levels of democracy, have implemented similar reform, direct election chief executive. While there were justifications time introduction, reforms then took on dynamics. reform was reversed, while in Turkey it became centrepiece further autocratisation. Adaptin...

This article focuses on how receiving societies’ structural and institutional characteristics affect immigrants’ labour market performance and progress. Using German census data for 1996 and 2000, and Israeli labour force surveys for the same years, the article compares patterns of self-selection and labour market integration of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel and...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the eating attitudes in Israeli Jewish female adolescents. METHODS A representative sample of 1270 females in grades 7-12 from five different Israeli schools from five different residential areas were assessed by EAT-26. RESULTS Of the total sample, 19.5% were identified as having abnormal eating attitudes. In terms of age, the 16 year olds were found to have the sign...

OBJECTIVES The purposes of this study were to investigate the responsivity patterns of typical 3- and 4-year-old Israeli children to tactile or vestibular stimulation, or both, and to examine whether differences in these patterns exist between them with respect to age and gender. METHOD The study sample consisted of one hundred seventeen 3-year-old and one hundred forty-three 4-year-old healt...