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Gindi, Shahar; Erlich Ron, Rakefet – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
In this endeavour to examine teachers' willingness to discuss controversial political issues in class, we focused on four variables that received little attention so far: teachers' vested interest, knowledge, the topic of discussion, and teachers' ethnicity. 1130 teachers in Israel, 832 Jewish and 298 Arab, answered an online questionnaire that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Arabs, Jews, Teacher Attitudes
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David, Nissim Ben; Zion, Uri Ben – Health Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the relative effect of relevant explanatory variable on smoking tendency and smoking intensity. Design/methodology/approach: Using survey data collected by the Israeli Bureau of Statistics in 2003-2004, a probit procedure is estimated for analyzing factors that affect the probability of being a…
Descriptors: Jews, Smoking, Foreign Countries, Probability
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Schiff, Miriam; Katz, Katalin – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
Objective: This study is the first in a comprehensive examination of therapeutic components and outcome of interventions in a public, nonresidential service for drug addicts in Jerusalem (SHALEM). Method: Data were gathered from 153 clients (35 women, 128 men; 35 Arabs, 118 Jews; median age = 39) using clinical data mining. Results: Men who had…
Descriptors: Jews, Substance Abuse, Child Abuse, Arabs
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Astor, Ron Avi; Benbenishty, Rami; Vinokur, Amiram D.; Zeira, Anat – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
This inquiry explores variables that predict elementary school students' fear of attending school due to school violence and their overall judgments of school violence as a problem. Using a nationally representative sample (Israel) of 5,472 elementary-school-aged children, this study tested the hypotheses that: (a) young students' personal fear…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Models, Gender Differences, Cultural Differences