World Social Work Day: Gaza war puts heavy burden on Israel’s overworked social workers
19.03.2024During the war, the population in need of social worker assistance grew significantly—in the hotels housing the evacuated, in treatment centers, and in various settlements...
Researchers call to reform long-term care as Israelis live longer
05.04.2024The elderly population in Israel is rapidly growing with longevity expected to continue to rise, creating a need for a better-coordinated system for long-term care...
Study finds narrowing gap in state spending on Jewish and Arab high school students
05.04.2024In the Taub Center study, which was released Thursday, researchers analyzed Education Ministry data on high schools from 2014 to 2022....
Homicides in Israeli Arab societies rising at unprecedented rate – study
11.02.2024Crime among Israeli Arab society has been rising at an unprecedented rate in the past year, with 2023 seeing more than double the number of...
Israeli population growth slowing as fertility rates continue to fall – report
22.01.2024Between 2018 and 2022, the average fertility rate for Jews dropped from 3.17 to 3.03 children per woman, according to the Taub Center’s demography expert,...
Taub Center: Israel is burning up, and it’s not from rocket fire
08.01.2024The risk of mortality due to exposure to high temperatures is increasing in Israel, according to a new report by the Taub Center for Social...
Students lack understanding of democracy due to waning interest in civics
01.01.2024In a 38-page, English-language report, principal researcher and chairman of the Taub Center Education Policy Program – Nachum Blass – took a close look at...
Severely battered: War, political crisis take toll on Israel’s economy
29.12.2023“The war was a huge breaking point for the economy which is still ongoing,” said Professor Benjamin Bental, principal researcher and Economics Policy Program chair...
Haredi families above poverty line get more vouchers than others below line
27.12.2023The COVID-19 pandemic, the October 7 Hamas onslaught, and the war in Gaza have created huge social needs, but state expenditures on these services have...
Herculean task to fix war damage after past neglect
25.12.2023So says the first chapter of the just-released annual State of the Nation Report by Jerusalem’s Taub Center for Social Policy Studies....
Israel’s Economy Expected to Shrink 2% as War Sidelines Workers
25.12.2023The Israeli economy is expected to shrink by 2 percent this quarter, according to a leading research center, with hundreds of thousands of workers displaced...
Israel’s High Court stops ‘discriminatory’ food voucher plan
13.09.2023The study found a substantial gap between the number of families that received food vouchers and the number living below the poverty line....
Study examines how class size impacts academic achievement
16.08.2023New study offers insight into the substitutability between class size and instructional hours and its impact on academic achievement...
Job happiness linked to good workplace relationships – study
03.08.2023according to a recent study conducted by Taub Center researcher Haim Bleikh, on job satisfaction trends among Israeli workers from 2002 to 2021....
The opioid epidemic that wracked America is now assailing Israel
04.07.2023Israel is on the brink of such a crisis. Some say the opioid crisis has already begun here....
Activists, researchers sound alarm as Israel’s opioid use reaches critical level, surpassing U.S.
05.06.2023Nonprofits working to get government to make it more difficult for doctors to prescribe powerful opiates as Israeli consumption levels surpass U.S...
Can high marks in international exams indicate economic growth? – study
06.04.2023The Taub Center researchers stated that if there is such a connection between academic achievements and international tests, the relevance between the two is extremely...
Israel’s pain-related opioid consumption has overtaken the US
20.03.2023A new study suggests immediate actions to be taken to cut consumption and use of narcotic medicine than clinically necessary....
Study: Opioid use now higher in Israel than in U.S.
20.03.2023According to a new study by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Jerusalem, Israel surpassed the United States in 2020 in the use...
Israel outpaces U.S. in opioid use per capita, study shows
20.03.2023Experts say rise began in previous decade and even eclipsed all other OECD countries for some time, adding that doctors prescribed painkillers for mild conditions...
Where in Israel are the cancer rates higher or lower?
02.03.2023Researchers examined differences in cancer morbidity and mortality in Israel from three different angles....
Study warns Israel may be facing opioid epidemic
20.03.2023Israel has surpassed the United States in opioid consumption, becoming number one worldwide in the use of the pain narcotics, according to a new study...
Israel’s richest locales show 20% lower cancer death rate than middle-income areas
05.02.2023Taub Center analysis suggests ‘health inequality’ based on socioeconomic status and unequal health provision outside central Israel as possible explanations for findings...