Israeli Experience Research Articles

The vector of integration of medical nurses-bachelors in practical health care

The article discusses the experience of Israel, Canada, the USA and the European countries in training nurses with higher nursing education. The considerations concerning the need to change previously established standards of professionalization of graduates with higher nursing education in health care reform are analyzed. The purpose of the study is to consider a possibility of organizing a model of partnership relationship between physician and medical nurse with higher nursing education in conditions of the reform of health care system in The Russian Federation. The study was organized in two stages. At the first stage, the results of the study carried out by The Research Institute of Health Care Organization and Medical Management of the Moscow Health Care Department were analyzed. It was established that in the conditions of modern Russian health care, there is no distinct understanding among physicians how the relationship between physicians and medical nurses should be built. At the second stage, the sociological survey was carried out based on specially developed original questionnaire covering 150 physicians in Moscow medical organizations in 2019. The survey demonstrated that physicians reconsidered the role of medical nurse and would like to expand competencies of medical nurses. However, this requires to revise the legal base to allow medical nurse with higher nursing education to fill the position "The academic medical nurse - organizer of treatment process". The results of the study demonstrated that in medical organization the majority of physicians see in the new educational training of medical nurses a prospective area of implementing ​​the model "The organizer of treatment process - certified medical nurse with higher nursing education". The results of study will facilitate transition of the medical nurse business to the new professional level that will permit to improve the specialty over whole career.

Mass COVID-19 vaccination of residents in geriatric facilities by emergency medical services: the Israeli experience

As the number of COVID-19 deaths exceeds 2 million worldwide, the highest mortality rate is among older people (aged ≥80 years), reaching 21·9% of confirmed cases.1 This rate is particularly true of residents in nursing homes, especially those with cognitive or physical impairment.2 Long-term care facilities are known foci of outbreaks.3 As vaccines become available, many countries are delivering them first to older individuals and those with comorbidities.

How Managed Entry Agreements can improve allocation in the public health system: a mechanism design approach.

The process of introducing a new health technology into a healthcare system is characterized by uncertainty and risk for those involved-pharmaceutical companies, payers, patients and the government. In view of the accelerated introduction of new technologies in recent years, mechanisms to reduce uncertainty are of growing interest. One example is the Managed Entry Agreement (MEA), which we explore using a mechanism design approach. We make use of the Israeli experience, in which pharmaceutical companies and health plans (i.e., payers) negotiate over the introduction of new technologies into the national Health Services Basket (HSB) with the Ministry of Health acting as a mediator. We use the framework of bargaining within a mechanism design framework to show that in the process of negotiation the parties, the pharmaceutical company (PC) and the health plan (HP), have independent private valuations and that a situation of common knowledge that gains from MEA exists is rare. Adding a mediator (i.e., the MEA team) to the mechanism, as in a direct-revelation mechanism, reduces the level of uncertainty for both sides (i.e., the PC and the HP), thus making it possible to meet the budget constraint while increasing value for patients and enhancing ex-post efficiency.

Tussen letterlijkheid en vergeestelijking. Op zoek naar een passende interpretatie van de oudtestamentische heilsprofetie

The prophets describe the future of Israel in a concrete manner and with vivid colours. Against the doom that Israel experiences, they proclaim a bright future, in which all that Israel received from the Lord, shall be restored. There is much discussion about how the interpretation of these eschatological pictures: more literally or more spiritually? Or is there a way in between? This article proposes an interpretative framework. Starting with the basis and content of the prophetic hope (God’s covenant) it explores the language and peculiarities of prophetic preaching, it shows how the context of the New Testament requires a recontextualization of the past promises, and it reaffirms the special position of Israel. The function of symbolism needs rearticulation.

Effects of Covid-19 on orthopaedic trauma services: early experiences in South Africa and Israel.

South Africa and Israel have significantly different health systems. As South Africa is geographically 500 times as large and has a population nearly 7 times as large as the state of Israel, major differences in the challenges and subsequent handling of the pandemic between these countries were to be expected. South Africa's challenges included being under-resourced, particularly related to trauma, and severe and radical measures had to be undertaken that included extended strict lockdowns, bans on alcohol sales, and cancellation of the majority of the elective surgery during this initial period of the pandemic. Although Israel is much smaller and thereby theoretically easier to control, a complex political situation created difficulties and delays in controlling the pandemic after the initial response, leading to a second wave and additional lockdown. Although massively engaged initially, the Israeli trauma systems had continued functioning almost normally throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

Israel on the Screen: Between Reality and Fantasy

Israel on the Screen:Between Reality and Fantasy Yaron Peleg and Eran Kaplan Arguably more than any other artform, cinema can combine realism and fantasy, mimic the world as we see and experience it, and create images of our inner worlds, our imagination. The tension between realism and fantasy is one of cinema's most alluring aspects, and it is commonly acknowledged by what we call film styles or genres. By and large, and with some notable exceptions, Israeli cinema is immersed in reality. Rather than escape realism, it seems eager to explore, again and again, the nature of the traumatic core of the Israeli experience and force the viewers to face it. Israeli cinema and visual culture are almost obsessed with political, historical, and social issues, which are woven into narratives that sometimes take the form of social or national allegory. At the same time, a strong concern with reality does not necessarily lead to realistic cinema and television in Israel, especially when commercial considerations and the potential distribution in the global media market come into play. In this special issue, our contributors explore the relationship between realism and fantasy in Israeli cinema and TV and look at Israeli visual realism and the tensions therein. Our exploration begins with Ohad Landesman's article on the work of Claude Lanzmann and his documentary trilogy, Israel, Why? (1973), Shoah (1985), and Tzahal (1994), in which the celebrated documentarist reflects on the Zionist triumphalist narrative known as "from Shoah to t'kuma [revival]." Landesman explores Lanzmann's complex attitude toward this narrative, especially his contribution to exposing some of the realities behind it while [End Page 1] perpetuating some of its myths. Eran Kaplan describes how the harsh political realities of the Middle East in the TV series Fauda lose political signification as they become part of a tech or cyber universe. Kaplan shows how the hyperreality of the show is not concerned with the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as fighters do not do battle for their nations but in what amounts to a globalized corporate tech race powered by the neoliberal world order. Oded Nir looks at Israeli films and television programs that use allegory as a formal means of exposing socioeconomic antagonisms that often remain hidden. Nir uses Jameson's term "world reduction" to show the tensions between neoliberal logic and the welfare state in Fauda, The Band's Visit (2007), and In Between (2016). Yaron Peleg looks at how cinema handles various religious realities in Israeli culture in three distinct films, Ushpizin (2003), The Wedding Plan (2016), and Tikkun (2015). The first two films adopt popular generic conventions to translate unique Israeli religious realities, and the third film articulates a new language that tries to give visual form to Jewish religiosity. Vered Weiss concludes the issue with an article about the Israeli adaptation of the vampire genre in the television series Juda (2017). Weiss looks at the genre's local brew, into which antisemitic tropes and more unique Israeli ethnic tensions have been mixed to create a telling fantasy. [End Page 2] Copyright © 2022 Wayne State University Press

PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF BALNEOTHERAPY WITH POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR CENTRAL ASIAN SPAS AND SANATORIUMS

Spa therapy includes all modalities/ treatments based on evidence that are administered in spas or sanatoriums. Balneotherapy, the immersion in mineral water, is the main balneological modality in spa therapy programs. Clinical trials performed in Europe, Turkey, and Israel have shown clinical benefits of spa therapy/ balneotherapy in several diseases mainly pertaining to rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and dermatological diseases as well. However, mechanisms by which balneotherapy may improve the clinical symptoms of patients have been less evaluated/ documented in the literature. Although the literature on mechanisms of action of balneotherapy has still been evolving and accumulating, some evidence from preliminary studies paves the way for generating a hypothesis that balneotherapy has an influence on physiological mechanisms, immune system, inflammation, and oxidative stress. Extrapolation of the evidence-based clinical practice and scientific experience of Europe, Turkey, and Israel to Central Asian spas and sanatoriums is although possible; future studies investigating clinical efficacy, safety profile, and possible mechanisms of action of balneotherapy of regional spas are needed to better understand the role of balneotherapy and whether it has any local differences.

БОЛЬШАЯ НАУКА МАЛЕНЬКОЙ СТРАНЫ

The reviewed monograph by Dimitry A. Maryasis consists of three parts: A detailed description of the development of science and the innovation economy in Israel, an analysis of the innovation economy as a special model of economic development, and finally a study of the possibilities of using the experience of Israel in Russia. In the first part, based on the analysis of statistical data, official documents and academic publications, the author provides detailed analysis of the stages of the innovation economy formation in Israel, financing of academic research, state regulation of scientific research and innovation. The second part focuses on innovative activity as a new phenomenon in the global economy, carrying out the analysis of different concepts of innovation economy. The third part is an applied one. It examines the possibilities of applying the Israeli experience in Russia and cooperation between Russia and Israel in the field of innovation. The first and third parts proved to be the most successful for the research. The regional component, given in the first part, looks convincing and informative. Proposals for using the experience of Israel in Russia are justified and implementable in practice. The part where the model of innovation economy is analyzed as a new phenomenon is somewhat controversial. In Israeli conditions, the term ‘economy of invention’ is more appropriate than the term ‘innovation economy’, since discoveries and inventions made in Israel are exported and not implemented in the national economy. The analysis of the prospects of Israeli innovation economy, provided by the monograph, is very successful. The author objectively analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the modern innovative economy of Israel and the state of the country’s higher education, showing different options for the development of the innovation economy in Israel.

How Race Travels: Navigating Global Blackness in J. Ida Jiggetts’s Study of Afro-Asian Israeli Jewry

This article explores the intellectual history of Black scholar (John) Ida Jiggetts in her study of Yemenite Jewish integration efforts in Israel in the 1950s. I begin with a critical look into the scholarship that heavily influenced her: Zionist ethnography and anthropology. Jewish engagement in these fields, then dominated by race scientists, constructed Afro-Asian Jewry as a Black foil meant to highlight the normative whiteness of European Jews. The article then moves on to Jiggetts’s travel memoir, Israel to Me, in which she details her observations on intra-Jewish race relations, how she struggled to navigate race in Hebrew, and how her experiences in Israel pushed her to reflect on her own perceptions of race. Enacting a form of racial diplomacy, Jiggetts shaped Black American perspectives on Israel in the twentieth century as one Black community looked to another as a means of understanding the global color line. Navigating shifting interpellations of her own Blackness while observing the racialization of Mizrahi Israelis, her reflections on race in Israel shed light on the transnational process of racecraft for those who share the experience of the color line.

Historical Books

Historical Books Fred W. Guyette, Christopher T. Begg, and Francis M. Macatangay 829. [Joshua] Carolyn J. Sharp, Joshua (Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2019). Pp. 456. $62. ISBN 978-1-64173-669-0. Take any traditional list of biblical heroes, and it is almost certain that you will find the name of Joshua near the top of that list. God led the Hebrews out of slavery and showed them the way to the Promised Land. Joshua learned the lessons of leadership from Moses. It was Joshua who led their military campaigns and together Israel and Joshua witnessed many miracles along the way. Who hasn't wished that the walls of their enemies would come tumbling down, like the wall of Jericho did for Joshua? Joshua was a man of courage, and his example has inspired many people of faith to commit themselves and their households to God. But there is a much darker side to Joshua's story, and it will not go away. Better to face it head on. After the Holocaust, the United Nations sought to prevent genocide. UN Resolution 260 (1948) describes genocide as violence aimed at harming a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. When we read the Book of Joshua, it is impossible for us to ignore the similarities between the violence of Joshua's military campaigns and the definition of genocide found in UN Resolution 260. This raises very difficult problems for theological ethics, and S.'s commentary does not try to minimize their seriousness. When God established a covenant with Israel, did this automatically create insiders and outsiders? Are there other models of the Conquest that suggest a more gradual sequence of assimilation and negotiation? If so, what would that mean for the authority of Scripture? What are we to make of a canon that includes both divinely sanctioned violence and a command that disciples should "turn the other cheek" when someone strikes them? This is a book designed especially for college and seminary courses and for those who preach to congregations. [End Page 292] Throughout the book there are many artistic images, photographs of archaeological sites, and side-bars to help spark further reflection and classroom discussion.—F.W.G. 830. [Judges; Narrative Appraisal Analysis] Mary Conway, Judging the Judges: A Narrative Appraisal Analysis (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 15; University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2020). Pp. xvi + 374. $99. ISBN 9781575067247. The Book of Judges is full of characters whose moral integrity is questionable. Certainly they are flawed, imperfect people, but who else is God going to work with? So, the question is: How deep should our suspicions about them run? The terse narrative and the reticent narrator frequently leave the ethical character of the characters' actions in doubt. Using an interdisciplinary approach that employs the concepts of narrative perspective and appraisal theory, C. evaluates the judges within their historical context in order to determine whether their actions are or are not acceptable to Yhwh. Throughout Judges, there is an overall downward spiral in Israel's leadership, a trend that is confirmed by the Narrative Appraisal Model. Othniel seems to be the ideal judge, Ehud is appraised positively in spite of some ambiguities, but Barak is the first to show clear signs of weakness. Gideon openly confronts Yhwh and challenges his veracity, faithfulness, and justice. Ironically, rather than seeing their own apostasy and sin as the source of their suffering, the judges and the people in Judges doubt Yhwh's commitment to his covenant with Israel. Samson was supposed to represent a new beginning in Israel's experience with charismatic leadership, but his great strength was overshadowed by his lack of wisdom.—F.W.G. 831. [Ruth; Esther] Marion Ann Taylor, Ruth, Esther (The Story of God Bible Commentary; Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2020). Pp. xix + 247. $32.99. ISBN 978-0-310-49089-0. T.'s double commentary features two OT books whose central characters are women. For each book, T. provides an introduction that addresses the given book's authorship, date, and occasion for writing; title, canonicity, and textual witnesses, literary analysis (including genre and style and structure), historical and ANE background, theological...

Devil’s advocacy and cyber space. In support of quality assurance and decision making

ABSTRACT This paper addresses urgent information needs in today’s unsettled cyber domain. Dealing with complex cyber questions decision-makers will arguably benefit from an alternative analytical point of view. Academic research has shown that decisions benefit from assessments and advice based upon differing points of view. Devil’s advocacy, which criticizes established positions, and offers alternative perspectives to any given argument based upon the same inputs, is one established instrument to try to achieve this. The paper explores analytical lessons learned within the Israeli military system as a result of the Yom Kippur war of 1973. The unexpected outbreak of war showed the urgent need for improvements in assessment and decision-making processes. A ‘devil’s advocate shop’ was subsequently set up within Israeli military intelligence. The prolonged Israeli experience with devil’s advocacy might serve its purpose in the virtual world. This requires re-transformation of the Devil’s Advocacy concept into a Cyber tool in order to protect decision-makers from cognitive pitfalls and offering them a better perspective of complex cyber issues at stake.

Non-Western Modernities in the Middle East: The Israeli Experience of Development and Social Change

Could the unique and divergent modernization experiences of non-Western societies be the proof of a challenge to Western modernity? Could Israel be evaluated as a non-Western modernity model in contrast to the common assumption that Israel is a Western country? This article hinges on the argument that the State of Israel is not a Western country as its type of modernity has significantly diverged from the globalization thesis claiming to eventually unite all societies around Western modernity. This argument is based on a non-Western modernization perspective inspired by the insights of the Multiple Modernities Paradigm (MMP) and the Uneven and Combined Development Theory (U&CD). Today, Israel can be regarded as an economically modern society as it is a highly industrialized and urbanized society with high average living standards. However, what is the most remarkable fact observed in Israeli economic trajectory is that Israeli economic development has been mostly driven by state-led initiatives rather than by private initiatives such as a capitalist bourgeoisie class in the Western trajectory (France, Britain and the USA) where capitalist bourgeoisie class has become primary initiator and driving force of economic modernization. Moreover, this economic divergence naturally impacted on all other transformation trajectories of Israel such as its democratization and secularization processes. Contemporary Israel is neither a fully secularized society nor a liberal democratic one as the Eurocentric globalization thesis expected it to be after a long and arduous process of modernization. Therefore, the case of Israel shows that modernization processes do not follow a fixed, single and determinate way as they produces unexpected and uneven patterns, particularly in non-Western societies – even if they try to Westernise.

Barriers in implementing the dying patient law: the Israeli experience - a qualitative study

BackgroundCoping with end-of-life issues is a major challenge for governments and health systems. Despite progress in legislation, many barriers exist to its full implementation. This study is aimed at identifying these end-of-life barriers in relation to Israel.MethodsQualitative in-depth interviews using professionals and decision makers in the health-care and related systems (n = 37) were carried out, along with two focus groups based on brainstorming techniques consisting of nurses (n = 10) and social workers (n = 10). Data was managed and analyzed using Naralyzer software.ResultsQualitative analysis showed identification of six primary barriers: 1) law, procedures, and forms; 2) clinical aspects; 3) human aspects; 4) knowledge and skills of medical teams; 5) communication; and 6) resource allocation. These were further divided into 44 sub area barriers.ConclusionsThis study highlights the role of the family doctor in end-of-life by training physicians in decision-making workshops and increasing their knowledge in the field of palliative medicine. Effectively channeling resources, knowledge, and support for medical teams, by accounting for the structure and response of the units for home treatment will improve patient’s access to information on and support for end-of-life laws, as well as reduce legislative barriers in other countries that face the same issues.

Current trends in agricultural cooperation in Israel

Since the establishment of the independent state of Israel, the main emphasis in the agricultural sector has been placed on the development of agricultural cooperatives, while funds have been purposefully allocated for their creation. Cooperatives have gone through signifi cant milestones in their development. The liberalization of the world economic complex off ered its own tools for the development of the Israeli economy, proclaiming the primacy of market principles, which imply a sharp reduction in government interference in the activities of the cooperative system. Today, Israel’s modern, highly effi cient cooperatives continue to dominate agriculture. The transition from a de facto monopoly in the agricultural sector with the need, on the one hand, to diversify the structure of production and management, on the other, while deepening specialization in accordance with the emerging conjuncture of the domestic and international food markets, ensured their de facto dominant position in the hierarchy of producers in the agricultural sector, in to a large extent ensuring the satisfaction of the country’s needs for food. It should be emphasized that the experience of Israel in the development of agricultural cooperation can and should, after critical consideration, be used in the form of its individual aspects in domestic practice.

COVID-19 and older adults in Israel – common challenges and recommendations

Purpose The impact of COVID-19 has most dramatically affected the older population, and nursing homes have become infection hotspots. As a response, governments have ordered isolation of older adults in geriatric institutions owing to the high risk of critical illness and mortality. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential impact of current policies on nursing homes and community-based care and provide suggestions for improvement in care. Design/methodology/approach Taking the situation in Israel as an example, the author discussed major systemic problems pertaining to long-term care facilities and to community based care; the neglect of mental health; systemic deficiencies in end of life care; and the need to revise communications concerning COVID-19. Findings Within each of the identified areas, recommended changes in strategy, policy and practice can help mitigate the dramatic impact of COVID-19 on the living experience of the older population. Originality/value Drawing on the Israeli experience, this paper presents current shortcomings in the policy response to COVID-19 regarding nursing homes and community-based care and provides recommendations that are applicable to other contexts as well. Although some of these have been suggested or even practiced in some locations, many continue to be neglected and have not been discussed even as COVID-19 continues to infect societies around the globe.

National Innovation System of Israel at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Difficult geopolitical circumstances and natural resources scarcity laid down the vector of science and technology development of Israel. The only “natural resource” that was and still is in plenty — high-qualified human resource. As for today, Israel takes the first place in the world having its state support of public R&D as a per cent of GDP (4.5 per cent), the number of startup companies concerning population and quantity of researchers. Russia is interested in Israeli experience in the formation of a national innovation system (NIS) because of the same high state influence on the economics in this country. Powers of the state in Israel through the agency of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) stimulate a wide variety of applied R&D and upon that do not prescribe the market how to develop but use targeted funding and state programs to reward the development of priority branches. In Russia, as opposed to Israel, the powers of state aim to play a vital role in chosen market segments, therefore suppressing the development of small enterprises. If in Israeli innovation economics the central place is occupied by the startup companies, in Russia, in the opposite, at the innovation market dominate the massive state-owned enterprises, restraining innovation processes that shift into low gear without business initiative. Israeli experience can be used in such innovation economics’ sectors as state support of innovations; technology transfer organization; commercialization of technologies, elaborated in Research and Development Establishment and universities; formation of international scientific and technological cooperation system; using of dual technologies; training of innovation managers.

ЎЗБЕКИСТОНДА ВЕНЧУР МОЛИЯЛАШТИРИШ ТИЗИМИНИНГ ШАКЛЛАНИШИВА РИВОЖЛАНИШИ

This article examines the first stage of the formation of venture capital in Uzbekistan and the possibilities of applying the experience of Israel in the development of venture financing in the country

Rituximab for refractory manifestations of the antiphospholipid syndrome: a multicentre Israeli experience.

The clinical manifestations of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are heterogeneous and related to anti-phospholipid antibodies (aPL). There is some evidence that B cells are involved in the pathogenesis of this condition. Thus the ability of rituximab (RTX) to deplete B cells makes it an appealing potential therapy for refractory antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Real world data on RTX treatment of APS are still lacking. This study was conducted to report outcomes of RTX administration in the treatment of different aspects of APS. This is a retrospective case series study on APS patients from 3 medical centres in Israel who were treated with RTX during 2010-2019 for refractory manifestations of APS including diffuse alveolar haemorrhage, recurrent thrombosis, cytopenia, neurological and skin manifestations. Medical records were reviewed regarding the clinical indication for RTX treatment, concomitant medications, RTX protocol, aPL status and response to treatment. Outcomes were defined as complete response if full resolution of the "indicated manifestation" was achieved and maintained for at least 12 months, partial response or no response. We identified 40 APS patients who were treated with RTX for refractory manifestations of this condition, of whom, 24 patients (60%) were female with a mean age of 40 years, and 31 patients (78%) were diagnosed with primary APS. A favourable response to RTX was documented in 32 patients (80%) including a complete response in 22 patients (55%). Response to RTX treatment was associated with a rituximab protocol of 375mg/m2 x 4 compared to a fixed dose of 1000 mg x2 (100% vs. 65%; p=0.01). Complete response was associated with a decrease in aPL titres within 4-6 months post treatment, whereas no significant change in aPL titres was observed in patients with partial or no response. Consistent with previous small case series, we report a good therapeutic response to RTX in patients with difficult to treat manifestations of APS. In this cohort, treatment protocols were associated with outcomes. Although further studies are required to verify our observations, our data support a plausible role for B cell depletion in refractory APS.

ACTION-IO as a platform to understand differences in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of people with obesity and physicians across countries \u2013 the Israeli experience

BackgroundObesity is a highly prevalent, complex, and chronic relapsing disease with a considerable unmet medical need. We aimed to identify perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and barriers to effective obesity treatment among people with obesity (PwO) and physicians in Israel.MethodsThe ACTION-IO study was an online survey conducted in 11 countries, including Israel. Findings from the Israeli cohort are reported here. Israeli respondents were PwO (body mass index of ≥30 kg/m2 based on self-reported height and weight) and physicians primarily in direct patient care.ResultsIn total, 750 PwO and 169 physicians completed the survey in Israel. Although most PwO (70%) and physicians (95%) perceived obesity as a chronic disease, the majority of PwO assumed full responsibility for their own weight loss (88%) compared with only 19% of physicians who placed the responsibility for weight loss on their patients with obesity. Many PwO (62%) and physicians (73%) agreed that a complete change in lifestyle would be required for PwO to lose weight and felt that treatment of obesity should be a team effort between different healthcare professionals (HCPs; 80 and 90%, respectively). Dietitians were considered by 82% of physicians to be the most effective professionals in helping PwO achieve their weight loss goals. Many PwO (69%) liked that their HCP initiated weight management discussions and 68% of those who had not previously discussed their weight would like their HCP to initiate the conversation. However, among PwO who had discussed their weight with an HCP, 59% considered the discussions to be a little helpful or not at all helpful. The beliefs that patients have little interest in or motivation for losing weight were identified by physicians as the main reasons (71 and 70%, respectively) for not initiating weight management discussions.ConclusionsIn line with the ACTION-IO international study, our Israeli dataset reveals a need to improve awareness, primarily among physicians, on the physiologic basis and clinical management of obesity, including how to approach weight and weight management discussions during patient consultations.Trial registrationRegistered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03584191. Data first posted on ClinicalTrials.gov: 12 July 2018 - ‘Retrospectively registered’.

Clever collaboration highlights Israeli experience A review of The Ilanot Review, Fall 2019, The Collaborative Issue: Translations of Granta Hebrew

Clever collaboration highlights Israeli experience A review of The Ilanot Review, Fall 2019, The Collaborative Issue: Translations of Granta Hebrew