When a health risk is close to home health care professionals base their positions on vaccines on their own emotions and personal experiences

When a health risk gets closer to home, health care professionals base their positions on vaccines more on emotions and personal experiences than on scientific and analytical knowledge, according to…

להמשך קריאהWhen a health risk is close to home health care professionals base their positions on vaccines on their own emotions and personal experiences

A public opinion survey conducted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa reveals what Israelis think about operation “Protective Edge”

       The conditions of 85% of the Jewish-Israeli population to end Operation Protective Edge - cessation of rocket fire and the destruction or sealing off of all tunnels from…

להמשך קריאהA public opinion survey conducted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa reveals what Israelis think about operation “Protective Edge”

Decreasing font size enhances reading comprehension among children who have already developed proficient reading skills

  The study found that for fifth-grade students who have already developed proficient reading skills, decreasing the font size enhanced their reading comprehension, whereas for second-grade students who are still…

להמשך קריאהDecreasing font size enhances reading comprehension among children who have already developed proficient reading skills
Read more about the article Decoding the profile of a good student

Decoding the profile of a good student

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In a new study recently published, Dr. Marsha Bensoussan found that a good student in the Department of Foreign Languages in the University of Haifa is actually a female  student! In her research on language learning and learning in higher education conducted on students in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Haifa, Dr. Bensoussan,  a senior lecturer in the Department ​​, found that the profile of the best student is female, aged between 18-25 , or 41-65, native Israeli, whose father has had higher education.

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Jews and Words

By Fania Oz-Salzberger (Faculty of Law) and Amos Oz

Published by Yale University Press, November 2012

Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism’s most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips.

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