Background and health system in the state of Israel Israel has a heterogeneous, relatively young population of 8.08 million, of whom about 80% are Jewish and 20% non-Jewish, mainly Arab (2012). It has experienced massive waves of immigration including in the late 1940s and 1950s migrants from North Africa, Arab countries, Romania and Poland followed by immigration from former USSR countries in ...

"The main aim of the present paper was to establish the dimensions of international labour migration in the Arab world in the last ten to fifteen years, to describe the major characteristics of a particular process of movement of labour in the area and to point to the factors that have [affected] the politics of the countries of employment. A further aim was to show the specific features of lab...

The evolution of the Internet is affecting many nations around the world and forcing changes to business and socioeconomic development plans. It has major implications for the realization of the concept of globalization. The Arab world as developing countries with an economy in transition, has been investing in building its communications infrastructure and adopting the use of the Internet sinc...

Reducing nutrition-related health problems in Arab countries requires an understanding of the performance of Arab countries in the field of nutrition and dietetics research. Assessment of research activity from a particular country or region could be achieved through bibliometric analysis. This study was carried out to investigate research activity in "nutrition and dietetics" in Arab countries...

BACKGROUND Bibliometric analysis is increasingly employed as a useful tool to assess the quantity and quality of research performance. The specific goal of the current study was to evaluate the performance of research output originating from Arab world and published in international Integrative and Complementary Medicine (ICM) journals. METHODS Original scientific publications and reviews fro...

This paper investigates bias in coverage between Western and Arab media on Twitter after the November 2015 Beirut and Paris terror attacks. Using two Twitter datasets covering each attack, we investigate how Western and Arab media differed in coverage bias, sympathy bias, and resulting information propagation. We crowdsourced sympathy and sentiment labels for 2,390 tweets across four languages ...

If strategically managed, knowledge can be implemented to generate development. Knowledge management has been proven successful in industrialized economies. This study explores the more complex interaction between knowledge management and national culture. It uses empirical testing under the interpretivist paradigm to include a case study from the Arab world. Does knowledge management add value...