BACKGROUND Social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been repeatedly shown to be very prevalent in the Western society with prevalence rates of 10% or above. However, very few studies have been performed in the Middle East and in Arab countries. METHODS A total of 300 Israeli students participated in our study and were administered the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS), the Cheek and Buss Shyness...

BACKGROUND A 2005 survey led by the Israeli Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA) found that large parts of the Israeli public are not familiar with the profession of anesthesia. The ISA has subsequently been conducting a public campaign for several years with the aim to enhance community knowledge regarding the anesthesiologists' training and their critical role in the perioperative period. OBJ...

This article aims to analyze the social status, role and artworks of women artists in a society which defined itself as egalitarian utopian, through case study on Israeli kibbutz. My argument is that kibbutz express genderlessness, by Erik Olin Wright (2011). A social-historic analysis status artists, an artistic Idit Levavi Gabai, Marion Fuchs Tzila Liss, will demonstrate how kibbutz, at least...

This article adopts a ‘structural perspective’ of earnings determinants to examine changes over time in the gender earnings gap in Israeli society. It studies the combined effect of the expansion of the services and public sector employment on the gender earnings gap, utilizing data from the 1972 and 1995 censuses in Israel. It shows that within the context of an advanced legislation system reg...

the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of the islamic awakening in the arabic countries of the middle east and north africa on israeli ontological security and, it's strategy ofclosure and deviationin the regional level. in other words, after occurrence of the developments, the ontological security and identity of israel faced with what challenges? this research argues that ...

Israeli society has seen a gradual decrease in the proportion of compulsory and reserve soldiers amid growing criticism military from those who have previously served. This is connected to willingness on their part organize collective action for postservice benefits influence other postservice-related issues. We argue that new theoretical concept an “emergent veteran identity” could explain thi...

The increasing role of religion in the Middle East has by no means spared Israel, and in the course of 2014 the religious aspect became even more prominent in the multi-layered Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as in Israeli domestic politics. Thus, whoever wishes to forecast what Israel will be like for its 75th anniversary must also seriously examine – in addition to its geopolitical posi...

In its political ideology, large sectors of Israeli society hold the belief that only people who share ethnocratic values can same hygiene identity with it, reflecting self-perception as a pure national subject. This is context in which scatological works based on radical materialism and ethical critique first appeared performance video art at turn twenty-first century. The artworks under discu...

conclusions the palestinian and israeli official policies to give a booster dose for risk groups like medical students at anti-hbs level below 10 miu/ml should continue to ensure absolute protection. the currently-used vaccine and its time program cleared virus from students believed to have been exposed to the virus during their lifetime. background hepatitis b infection is a global public hea...