The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) will soon be completing its fifth year of publication. In the 5 years since the IJHPR's launch in January 2012, it has published over 250 articles, achieved an impact factor of 1.35, and secured a place in many of the leading journal databases including, most recently, Medline. The IJHPR's annual rate of submissions continues to increase, wit...

The Israeli society is ethnically diverse and it is an ideal case for studying the role of rising inequality on the widening earnings gaps between dominant and subordinate groups. Earnings differences between Ashkenazi men—the dominant group in Israeli society—and the other major ethnic/gender groups in the Israeli labor market and society (Mizrahi men, Arab men, Ashkenazi women, and Mizrahi wo...

1. Zhu Y, Fournier PE, Eremeeva M, Raoult D. Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multi-locus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii. BMC Microbiol. 2005;5:11. 2. Fournier PE, Dumler JS, Greub G, Zhang J, Wu Y, Raoult D. Gene sequence-based criteria for identifi cation of new Rickettsia isolates and description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp...

Introduction One of the main objectives of this volume is to engage with the long lasting debate in sociology regarding the consequences of the industrialisation process for social mobility. At the heart of this debate is the so-called 'liberal thesis of industrialisation' which states that the industrialisation process brings about not only more opportunity for social mobility, but also more e...

this article analyses the effects of post-zionism in israeli ,society and state. by using the discoursive analysis in social theory, the author argues that discourses such as post-zionism are the results of socio-political and economic conditions (processes), but their evolution is basically the result of the mental and value activities of their proponent, rather than the socio-political proces...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is one of the most prevalent vascular diseases in the adult population. It is an important determinant of atherosclerosis in adolescents and young adults. There is to date no information on blood pressure in children of the Israeli Arab population. OBJECTIVES To study blood pressure in Israeli Arab children and adolescents. METHODS Blood pressure measurements were ta...

The 1 French-Israeli International Conference on B Cells and Therapeutic Antibodies, organized by Reuven Laskov (Israel), Jean-Luc Teillaud (France) and Claude-Agnès Reynaud (France) under the auspices of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University Paris Descartes, was held October 23–25, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. The conference featured 36 presentations and a dozen posters. It inclu...

Two studies, conducted 3 months before the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and the Northern West Bank, examined whether reminders of death would lead right-wing Israelis to endorse violent resistance against the disengagement plan. More specifically, we hypothesized that this reaction would be particularly strong among participants high in denial--those who were unable to come to terms with...

THE FORMER RAND AFRIKAANS UNIVERSITY, now University of Johannesburg, has acted against its own and the South African national interest by terminating the 25-year-old collaboration with the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Around the World item “End to partnership with Israeli university,” News of the Week, 1 April, p. 19). Boycotts of Israeli scientists, science institutions, and worse, res...