Compared the characteristics of Israeli high school teachers who influenced students' political attitudes with the characteristics of non-influential teachers. Student surveys indicated that influential teachers differed from non-influential teachers in regard to four types of characteristics (sociodemographic, professional, ideological, and…

Among 734 Israeli high school students, political involvement, sense of political efficacy, and support of freedom of speech were more strongly related to students' political socialization experiences in school than to their social and ethnic backgrounds or academic/vocational school placement. Schooling effects were stronger for males than…

Intentions to emigrate and attachment to Israel of over 2,300 Israeli high school students were found to be related to a number of indicators of social status and involvement, including ethnicity, religiosity, gender, and SES. Immigrant status had a curvilinear relationship with attachment to Israel. Results support that social integration theory.…

This paper advises Israel in its efforts to establish a single national high school for highly talented art students. The school's role should be to strengthen the nation's social fabric and political agenda, foster a questioning attitude about the roles of all art forms, and develop a new breed of leaders. (JDD)

Israeli parents and high school students and teachers attach more importance to instrumental values (idealized modes of conduct such as achievement and decency) than to terminal values (human ideals such as freedom and Jewish/Arab consciousness). They believe that instrumental values are cultivated in schools to a greater extent than terminal…