Orr Levental
Biographic Data
| ID | 354330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orr Levental |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orr |
| FAMILY NAME | Levental |
| SIGNATURE | LEVENTAL O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Hai Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5731-3567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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The Utilitarian Shift
Early adolescent sport dropout is commonly explained through individual psychological factors such as declining motivation, burnout, or identity conflict. While valuable, these accounts often assume parental logistical and financial support as a stable background condition. This conceptual article introduces the Utilitarian Shift as a novel, family-level structural mechanism that helps explain why sport dropout peaks during early adolescence. Dra…
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Teaching Physical Education
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into education has accelerated significantly, yet its implementation in physical education (PE) remains relatively unexplored despite its potential to revolutionize traditional teaching methods and enhance personalized learning experiences. This article examines the barriers and facilitators influencing PE teachers’ implementation of AI technologies in their teaching practices, focusing on practical…
Linking Parenting Styles and Practices to Anxiety and Physical Activity in Autistic Youth
Background/Objectives: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience high anxiety and low physical activity (PA). While the influence of parenting styles on these outcomes is well-documented in typically developing children, their role in autistic youth remains underexplored. The study examines how parenting style and parental encouragement of physical activity relate to anxiety and activity levels in ASD youth. Methods: The sa…
Sporting Success in Peripheral Cities
This study examines how women non-sports fans in a peripheral city perceive and interpret their local football team’s promotion to the Premier League. While existing research focuses primarily on economic impacts and fan relationships with clubs, there remains limited exploration of how professional sports success affects broader populations, particularly non-fans. Through semi-structured interviews with 12 women residents who self-identify as no…
A place and a name
Wellbeing, identity, and sexuality among Israeli female sports fans
From team attachment to sport appreciation
This study investigates the evolving landscape of sports fandom by examining how digital-era engagement practices intersect with traditional fan identities. Through semi-structured interviews with 30 Israeli sports fans, stratified into three distinct participant groups based on their engagement with traditional team support and fantasy sports participation, the research explores the multidimensional nature of contemporary fan identity constructi…
Parents’ Involvement in Choosing Extracurricular Sports Activities
This study explores the multifaceted motivations behind parental decisions to enroll their children in organized sports, with a focus on how these decisions intersect with gender norms and values. Through qualitative interviews with mothers and fathers in Israel, this research uncovers a complex interplay between societal expectations, personal values, and the gender identities of both parents and children. A thematic analysis of the interviews r…
Beyond the Game
This research investigates the impact of varying levels of sports participation on college students’ self-perception and their sense of connection to their educational institution, with a specific focus on an Israeli context. Recognizing the gap in the existing literature regarding the nuanced effects of different degrees of sports engagement, this study aims to offer insights into how sports involvement shapes students’ academic, social, and psy…
Paternal and maternal parenting style and adolescents’ physical activity motivation
Online sports fans communities
Recent technical developments and the widespread use of social networks have led to the emergence of a variety of online communities built around common interests. Among these virtual communities, one notable category revolves around sports fans. This conceptual article uses several examples of online sports fan communities in Israel to analyze their core elements. Within this context, the article focuses on the significance of humor, trivial kno…
The 21st Century Globetrotters' Fans
In the modern era of commercialized, mediated, and global football, there is a decline in the importance of the local aspect of sports fandom. Nowadays, through television broadcasts, the Internet, and especially social networks, a fan continuously follows elite football clubs from around the world, which provide an alternative to local clubs. This has created a growing trend of football fan communities known as "transnational fans"-fans of sport…
Men's sexual behavior during sports tourism
Although Both sport and sex tourism have been studied extensively in recent decades, until now, no research has been devoted to the sexual behavior of sports tourists. This article seeks to present an initial perspective on the phenomenon and to examine the behavior and characteristics of sports tourists’ sexual behavior when vacationing abroad. To this end, the research adopted a qualitative approach that entailed interviewing 22 young Israeli s…
Is Home Advantage Diminished When Competing Without Spectators? Evidence From the Israeli Football and Basketball Leagues
Sports spectators are one of the factors that affect home advantage. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic created unique conditions under which most of the leagues in the world played matches without crowds for over six months. This situation facilitated an analytical comparison of two different periods: before and during the coronavirus pandemic. The current study sought to examine home advantage in the Israeli sport domain in general, and spec…
They’re all gone”
The Munich Olympic Games were an opportunity to present to the world the ‘New Germany’. It was clear to everyone that the shadow of the Berlin Olympic Games would follow the Munich Olympic Games at every stage. This article deals with West Germany’s attempts to erase Berlin 1936 from the public consciousness and to redesign Germany’s image as a cosmopolitan, peace-seeking nation. Designing the new German image included innovative architectural de…
Female fans in blue and white (and yellow)
This article examines female basketball fandom in Israel, concentrating on the relationship between gender and ethnonational identity in sport. It is based on two preliminary assumptions: (a) sport is considered a masculine sphere of interest; (b) sport in general, and fandom in particular, are part of the unique sociocultural life; hence patterns of Israeli female fandom are influenced by collective-Israeli ethnonational and gender identity. The…
National Buildings for Nation-Building
Buildings that contribute either directly or indirectly to the formation of a national identity are typically associated with historical monuments. Mega-structures such as national football stadiums, which were built as national monuments but were designed to meet functional needs as well, play a similar role. This paper examines these mega-structures, and specifically national football stadiums, through a critical review of two such stadiums, on…
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty
Higher education is a key component of human capital and is positively linked to improving the economic, social, and personal aspects of life. This study aims to examine how people living under circumstances of dramatic sociopolitical change perceive the opportunity to pursue higher education and the social and personal meaning they attach to it. The Druze community on the Golan Heights serves as a case study. This community has undergone dramati…
Choreographed Fan Displays
How football fans perceive sports heroes – The case of Israel
Background: Hero-making and hero-worship are common in human society. Yet despite the universal appeal of heroes, the features attributed to these figures and the attitudes toward them change depending upon the circumstances. Heroes have been the topic of extensive discussion in the academic literature. Nevertheless, little research attention has been directed at sports heroes. Examining soccer heroes is of special importance, particularly in vie…
Built heritage or lost nostalgia
Public campaigns aimed at preventing the demolition of sports venues represent a recent trend to recognise them as legitimate expressions of local sports culture. This article focuses on analysing what fans feel about these sports venues and the need to preserve them. Its main goal is to examine this growing phenomenon, which could affect modern preservation trends and the built heritage of sports. Focusing on the Israeli context, the article inc…
From functional to mythical
This article seeks to analyse and portray the mythologisation of sport venues in Israel through a close examination of the particular case study of Ussishkin basketball arena in Tel Aviv. Notwithstanding the current lack of Israeli mainstream recognition of sport places as a built cultural heritage, it is argued that the Ussishkin arena demonstrates the extensive social implication carried by those seemingly functional facilities, not exclusively…
Imagined communities, the online sphere, and sport
The Internet, particularly social media, has enhanced civic movements’ ability to communicate and organize their activities. This study addresses this issue in the realm of sports and examines fans’ online interaction while analyzing different platforms Hapoel Tel Aviv FC fans use (websites, forums, Twitter, and Facebook), especially during their 2011–2012 protest against the team’s owner. Findings indicate that technology enables fans to create …
From functional to mythical
This article seeks to analyse and portray the mythologisation of sport venues in Israel through a close examination of the particular case study of Ussishkin basketball arena in Tel Aviv. Notwithstanding the current lack of Israeli mainstream recognition of sport places as a built cultural heritage, it is argued that the Ussishkin arena demonstrates the extensive social implication carried by those seemingly functional facilities, not exclusively…
The 21st Century Globetrotters' Fans
In the modern era of commercialized, mediated, and global football, there is a decline in the importance of the local aspect of sports fandom. Nowadays, through television broadcasts, the Internet, and especially social networks, a fan continuously follows elite football clubs from around the world, which provide an alternative to local clubs. This has created a growing trend of football fan communities known as "transnational fans"-fans of sport…
National Buildings for Nation-Building
Buildings that contribute either directly or indirectly to the formation of a national identity are typically associated with historical monuments. Mega-structures such as national football stadiums, which were built as national monuments but were designed to meet functional needs as well, play a similar role. This paper examines these mega-structures, and specifically national football stadiums, through a critical review of two such stadiums, on…
Imagined communities, the online sphere, and sport
The Internet, particularly social media, has enhanced civic movements’ ability to communicate and organize their activities. This study addresses this issue in the realm of sports and examines fans’ online interaction while analyzing different platforms Hapoel Tel Aviv FC fans use (websites, forums, Twitter, and Facebook), especially during their 2011–2012 protest against the team’s owner. Findings indicate that technology enables fans to create …
Is Home Advantage Diminished When Competing Without Spectators? Evidence From the Israeli Football and Basketball Leagues
Sports spectators are one of the factors that affect home advantage. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic created unique conditions under which most of the leagues in the world played matches without crowds for over six months. This situation facilitated an analytical comparison of two different periods: before and during the coronavirus pandemic. The current study sought to examine home advantage in the Israeli sport domain in general, and spec…
Female fans in blue and white (and yellow)
This article examines female basketball fandom in Israel, concentrating on the relationship between gender and ethnonational identity in sport. It is based on two preliminary assumptions: (a) sport is considered a masculine sphere of interest; (b) sport in general, and fandom in particular, are part of the unique sociocultural life; hence patterns of Israeli female fandom are influenced by collective-Israeli ethnonational and gender identity. The…
Choreographed Fan Displays
Built heritage or lost nostalgia
Public campaigns aimed at preventing the demolition of sports venues represent a recent trend to recognise them as legitimate expressions of local sports culture. This article focuses on analysing what fans feel about these sports venues and the need to preserve them. Its main goal is to examine this growing phenomenon, which could affect modern preservation trends and the built heritage of sports. Focusing on the Israeli context, the article inc…
Imagined communities, the online sphere, and sport
The Internet, particularly social media, has enhanced civic movements’ ability to communicate and organize their activities. This study addresses this issue in the realm of sports and examines fans’ online interaction while analyzing different platforms Hapoel Tel Aviv FC fans use (websites, forums, Twitter, and Facebook), especially during their 2011–2012 protest against the team’s owner. Findings indicate that technology enables fans to create …
From functional to mythical
This article seeks to analyse and portray the mythologisation of sport venues in Israel through a close examination of the particular case study of Ussishkin basketball arena in Tel Aviv. Notwithstanding the current lack of Israeli mainstream recognition of sport places as a built cultural heritage, it is argued that the Ussishkin arena demonstrates the extensive social implication carried by those seemingly functional facilities, not exclusively…
Built heritage or lost nostalgia
Public campaigns aimed at preventing the demolition of sports venues represent a recent trend to recognise them as legitimate expressions of local sports culture. This article focuses on analysing what fans feel about these sports venues and the need to preserve them. Its main goal is to examine this growing phenomenon, which could affect modern preservation trends and the built heritage of sports. Focusing on the Israeli context, the article inc…
How football fans perceive sports heroes – The case of Israel
Background: Hero-making and hero-worship are common in human society. Yet despite the universal appeal of heroes, the features attributed to these figures and the attitudes toward them change depending upon the circumstances. Heroes have been the topic of extensive discussion in the academic literature. Nevertheless, little research attention has been directed at sports heroes. Examining soccer heroes is of special importance, particularly in vie…
Men's sexual behavior during sports tourism
Although Both sport and sex tourism have been studied extensively in recent decades, until now, no research has been devoted to the sexual behavior of sports tourists. This article seeks to present an initial perspective on the phenomenon and to examine the behavior and characteristics of sports tourists’ sexual behavior when vacationing abroad. To this end, the research adopted a qualitative approach that entailed interviewing 22 young Israeli s…
Is Home Advantage Diminished When Competing Without Spectators? Evidence From the Israeli Football and Basketball Leagues
Sports spectators are one of the factors that affect home advantage. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic created unique conditions under which most of the leagues in the world played matches without crowds for over six months. This situation facilitated an analytical comparison of two different periods: before and during the coronavirus pandemic. The current study sought to examine home advantage in the Israeli sport domain in general, and spec…
They’re all gone”
The Munich Olympic Games were an opportunity to present to the world the ‘New Germany’. It was clear to everyone that the shadow of the Berlin Olympic Games would follow the Munich Olympic Games at every stage. This article deals with West Germany’s attempts to erase Berlin 1936 from the public consciousness and to redesign Germany’s image as a cosmopolitan, peace-seeking nation. Designing the new German image included innovative architectural de…
Female fans in blue and white (and yellow)
This article examines female basketball fandom in Israel, concentrating on the relationship between gender and ethnonational identity in sport. It is based on two preliminary assumptions: (a) sport is considered a masculine sphere of interest; (b) sport in general, and fandom in particular, are part of the unique sociocultural life; hence patterns of Israeli female fandom are influenced by collective-Israeli ethnonational and gender identity. The…
National Buildings for Nation-Building
Buildings that contribute either directly or indirectly to the formation of a national identity are typically associated with historical monuments. Mega-structures such as national football stadiums, which were built as national monuments but were designed to meet functional needs as well, play a similar role. This paper examines these mega-structures, and specifically national football stadiums, through a critical review of two such stadiums, on…
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty
Higher education is a key component of human capital and is positively linked to improving the economic, social, and personal aspects of life. This study aims to examine how people living under circumstances of dramatic sociopolitical change perceive the opportunity to pursue higher education and the social and personal meaning they attach to it. The Druze community on the Golan Heights serves as a case study. This community has undergone dramati…
Choreographed Fan Displays
Online sports fans communities
Recent technical developments and the widespread use of social networks have led to the emergence of a variety of online communities built around common interests. Among these virtual communities, one notable category revolves around sports fans. This conceptual article uses several examples of online sports fan communities in Israel to analyze their core elements. Within this context, the article focuses on the significance of humor, trivial kno…
The 21st Century Globetrotters' Fans
In the modern era of commercialized, mediated, and global football, there is a decline in the importance of the local aspect of sports fandom. Nowadays, through television broadcasts, the Internet, and especially social networks, a fan continuously follows elite football clubs from around the world, which provide an alternative to local clubs. This has created a growing trend of football fan communities known as "transnational fans"-fans of sport…
Parents’ Involvement in Choosing Extracurricular Sports Activities
This study explores the multifaceted motivations behind parental decisions to enroll their children in organized sports, with a focus on how these decisions intersect with gender norms and values. Through qualitative interviews with mothers and fathers in Israel, this research uncovers a complex interplay between societal expectations, personal values, and the gender identities of both parents and children. A thematic analysis of the interviews r…
Beyond the Game
This research investigates the impact of varying levels of sports participation on college students’ self-perception and their sense of connection to their educational institution, with a specific focus on an Israeli context. Recognizing the gap in the existing literature regarding the nuanced effects of different degrees of sports engagement, this study aims to offer insights into how sports involvement shapes students’ academic, social, and psy…
Paternal and maternal parenting style and adolescents’ physical activity motivation
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Teaching Physical Education
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into education has accelerated significantly, yet its implementation in physical education (PE) remains relatively unexplored despite its potential to revolutionize traditional teaching methods and enhance personalized learning experiences. This article examines the barriers and facilitators influencing PE teachers’ implementation of AI technologies in their teaching practices, focusing on practical…
Linking Parenting Styles and Practices to Anxiety and Physical Activity in Autistic Youth
Background/Objectives: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience high anxiety and low physical activity (PA). While the influence of parenting styles on these outcomes is well-documented in typically developing children, their role in autistic youth remains underexplored. The study examines how parenting style and parental encouragement of physical activity relate to anxiety and activity levels in ASD youth. Methods: The sa…
Sporting Success in Peripheral Cities
This study examines how women non-sports fans in a peripheral city perceive and interpret their local football team’s promotion to the Premier League. While existing research focuses primarily on economic impacts and fan relationships with clubs, there remains limited exploration of how professional sports success affects broader populations, particularly non-fans. Through semi-structured interviews with 12 women residents who self-identify as no…
A place and a name
Wellbeing, identity, and sexuality among Israeli female sports fans
From team attachment to sport appreciation
This study investigates the evolving landscape of sports fandom by examining how digital-era engagement practices intersect with traditional fan identities. Through semi-structured interviews with 30 Israeli sports fans, stratified into three distinct participant groups based on their engagement with traditional team support and fantasy sports participation, the research explores the multidimensional nature of contemporary fan identity constructi…
Available but unusable
The Utilitarian Shift
Early adolescent sport dropout is commonly explained through individual psychological factors such as declining motivation, burnout, or identity conflict. While valuable, these accounts often assume parental logistical and financial support as a stable background condition. This conceptual article introduces the Utilitarian Shift as a novel, family-level structural mechanism that helps explain why sport dropout peaks during early adolescence. Dra…
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