This paper seeks to examine the effect of the revolutions of 2011-2012 in the Arabic countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on Israeli regime's ontological security and its strategy of closure and deviation in the regional level. In other word, the paper tries to find the challenges the ontological security and identity of Israel is facing with after the occurrence of the awakenin...

Prof. Assaf Friedler was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1971. He did his undergraduate studies in chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Ph.D studies in chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Chaim Gilon, in peptide chemistry and medicinal chemistry. After receiving his PhD degree, in 2000, Prof. Friedler moved to Cambridge, UK, to do his post-do...

Introduction While palliative care has been practiced for several decades, its principles are just beginning to be actively implemented in many ICUs across Europe. The Israeli Society for Cardiac and Intensive Care Nursing developed and administered an innovative ICU Palliative Care course. The primary goal of this course was not only to educate those nurses that participated in the course, but...

Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) affects 1 % of all pregnant women and in western societies it is the most common cause for hospital admission during first trimester. The economic burden of the disease has barely been studied. To estimate the Israeli national burden of HG, Konikoff and co-workers obtained data retrospectively on hospital costs as well as loss of workdays from 184 women hospitalized ...

Zvia Agur is an internationally known biomathematician whose research focuses on the dynamics of cancer and infectious diseases, and on mathematical methods for identifying improved drug regimens and improved vaccination programs. She is President of the Institute for Medical BioMathematics, Israel, and the Founder, Chairperson and Chief Scientific Officer of Optimata Ltd, Israel. Professor Agu...

There are thousands of drug addicts in Israeli society who have lost control of their lives and cause harm to themselves, to their immediate environment, and to society at large. The therapeutic community is one type of setting that can generate change in the lifestyle of drug addicts. In Israel, two main types of therapeutic communities focus on therapeutic intervention in small groups: the Co...

360 www.palgrave-journals.com/crr/ ABSTRACT Over the past decade or so, corporate image has become an essential strategy for many organizations. However, non-profit organizations have only recently adopted this strategy in order to better communicate with their stakeholders. The purpose of this case study is to trace the integrated marketing communication (IMC) strategy of the Magen David Adom ...

This study analyses differentials in life expectancy and cause-specific death rates among the elderly Jewish population in Israel in the early 1970s and early 1980s. We find substantial inequality in old-age mortality levels across subpopulations in geographic units and show that this inequality increased between the two periods. Much of the variation in old-age mortality is explained by differ...

Once again, it is my honor to announce a new international partnership. In past years, Aesthetic Surgery Journal has been adopted as the official English-language journal of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, the Japan Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the Mexican Association of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery. I now take pleasure in informing you that the Israel So...