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Carmel Blank; Sal'it Shchory – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
While Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) play a crucial role in children's and parents' ability to maintain routines, their impact during armed conflicts remains understudied. During a 10-day military operation in Israel involving missile launches, we conducted an online survey among parents of children aged 1-7, to assess the relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Anxiety, Weapons
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Isralowitz, Richard; Reznik, Alexander – Religious Education, 2015
Alcohol use and risk-taking behavior among 345 male adolescents from three Israeli secular (n = 168) and three religious (n = 177) high schools were studied from 2009 to 2013. Findings show the positive impact religious education and religiosity have on minimizing alcohol use, binge drinking, school underachievement, violence, weapons possession,…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Religious Factors, Adolescents, Outcomes of Education
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Swezey, James A.; Thorp, Kimberly A. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2010
Dinkes, Cataldi, and Lin-Kelly (2007) claims that 78% of public schools reported one or more violent incidents during the 2005/2006 school year. School shootings are a rare but real threat on school campuses. Shootings at private schools are even less frequent with only a few recorded examples in the United States. This case study examines how a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Safety, Violence, Weapons
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Brym, Robert J.; Araj, Bader – Social Forces, 2006
Social scientists have explained the rise of suicide bombing since the early 1980s by focusing on the characteristics of suicide bombers, the cultural matrix in which they operate, and the strategic calculations they make to maximize their gains. The authors offer an alternative approach that emphasizes the interaction between Palestinian suicide…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Suicide, Weapons, Conflict
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Khoury-Kassabri, Mona; Astor, Ron Avi; Benbenishty, Rami – Health Education & Behavior, 2007
The present study employed an ecological perspective to examine the relative predictive power of individual and school contextual factors on weapon carrying at school. The study is based on a nationally representative sample of 10,400 students in Grades 7 through 11 in 162 schools across Israel. Hierarchical logistic modeling examined the…
Descriptors: Weapons, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Statistical Analysis
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Laufer, Avital; Harel, Yossi; Molcho, Michal – Journal of School Violence, 2006
This study explores whether the association between substance use and involvement in youth violence is a unique association resulting from the properties of the drugs, or whether it is part of a larger behavioral cluster. The sample was composed of 1,571 10th grade students from the Israeli secular and religious state school systems, including…
Descriptors: State Schools, Jews, Intervention, Violence