Suicide in Israel: 1985-1997.

Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide.

Suicide ideation, planning and attempts: results from the Israel National Health Survey.

OBJECTIVES To establish the lifetime prevalence rates of suicide ideations, plans and attempts, and to identify the conditional risks of suicide attempts following the prior onset of suicide ideation or planning. METHOD A representative sample extracted from the National Population Register of non-institutionalized residents, aged 21 or older, were interviewed at home between May 2003 and Apr...

Suicide in Ethiopian immigrants in Israel: a case for study of the genetic-environmental relation in suicide.

Immigration is a major life stress event, which has been associated with increased levels of mental health problems. The linkage between immigration and suicide has been studied in various societies, with conflicting results. Extremely high rates of suicide have been found repeatedly among the population of the Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. These rates were significantly higher than other imm...

Suicide in Judaism with a Special Emphasis on Modern Israel

Judaism considers the duty of preserving life as a paramount injunction. Specific injunctions against suicide appear in the Bible, Talmud, and thereafter. Nevertheless, Jewish tradition emphasizes that one should let himself be killed rather than violate cardinal rules of Jewish law. Mitigating circumstances are found for the six deaths by suicide mentioned in the Bible, for example to account ...

Attempted suicide: a study of 133 cases in Jerusalem.

In Israel, each year, an average of 13/100,000 people die by suicide. Attempted suicide has become one of the most important issues for hospital emergency room staff. We studied 133 cases of attempted suicide in Jerusalem in order to examine whether generally accepted risk factors for such attempts are applicable to our local population. We compared the data of 70 patients who attempted suicide...