Ben-Asher
Biographic Data
| ID | 37506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben-Asher |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Asher |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-ASHER |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kaye Academic College of Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6264-822X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural mediation and public confidence in emergency communication
This article examines intercultural communication under conditions of inequality through a qualitative case study of emergency messaging directed at the Bedouin community in southern Israel. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Jewish and Bedouin reservists involved in the Bedouin Desk of the Israeli Home Front Command during the 2023–2025 war, the study applies the frameworks of cultural mediation and communication justice. The analysis identifie…
Do Daily Podcasts in Public Broadcasting in Israel Help Increase Resilience in Crisis Situations
In times of crisis, the importance of the media to help convey messages that support resilience stands out. The present study examined the possible contribution of 21 daily podcasts that were broadcast on three public channels during a military conflict in Israel (May 2021). The research question concerned the possible contribution of the podcasts to resilience. The research findings show that podcast producers preferred topics from their areas o…
Therapy in the backyard’
When Honor Turns Deadly
This study examines Instagram responses to the TV series Fadia, which highlights femicide in the Arab society under the guise of "family honor." The series and the subsequent Instagram discussions reveal emerging views on women's rights, education, and traditional roles, providing a unique insight into the clash between patriarchal norms and modern values. By analyzing spontaneous comments, the study captures new grassroots opinions, including in…
Volunteering for Refugees as a Journey of Growth and Pain
This narrative study explores how young adults volunteering to help refugees in disaster‐stricken areas reflectively view this journey and its meaning to their lives. A narrative study was conducted with 12 Jewish and Arab young adults who were sent to run a school for refugee children in Greece. The volunteers reported experiencing interpretive turmoil in their encounter with the reality of the refugees, as well as the pain involved in the awake…
Time and Ethics in Delivering Bad News in Institutionalized and Social Media
The public is exposed to information through two types of communication: institutionalized (radio, newspapers, and television) and informal, which includes information obtained through social networks (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Telegram) and mediated interpersonal communication (phone). In the case of institutionalized media, consumers are not active partners in content creation. Regarding social networks, the users are both content prod…
Growth and pain in life-story reflection of students in helping professions
The importance of reflective pedagogy is widely acknowledged in HE and is a cornerstone of the helping professions curricula, enhancing students’ self-awareness and reflective skills. The literature emphasizes the virtues of reflection for the students’ personal and professional growth but insufficiently addresses the emotional pain entailed. To contribute to filling this gap, we examined how 103 students of social work and educational counseling…
Standardization of National Bereavement Rights Compromises Minorities’ Civic Equality
Standardization is a mechanism used to create uniformity and express the equal status of citizens facing governmental institutions. However, when standardization in various life aspects ignores fundamental differences between groups and individuals, it might increase inequality, compromise justice, and create explicit or implicit discrimination. This study exposes the mistake of identifying standardization with equality by looking at a specific a…
Taboo and dynamic framing in the media coverage of gang rape
The study examines the media coverage of the case of suspected gang rape in Aiya Napa, Cyprus in the summer of 2019. The research question examined how the media covered this event while giving expression to various representations through dynamic framing. The study analyzed some 30 reports in the main news edition on two Israeli television channels using an original model developed for this study: The Dynamic Media Coverage Spectrum around the M…
From a View of the Hospital as a System to a View of the Suffering Patient
Purpose: Hospitals aspire to provide patient-centered care but are far from achieving it. This qualitative mixed methods study explored the capacity of hospital directors to shift from a hospital systemic-view to a suffering patient-view applying the Salutogenic theory. Methods: Following IRB, we conducted in-depth narrative interviews with six directors of the six Israeli academic tertiary public hospitals, focusing on their managerial role. In …
An Inverted Container in Containing and Not Containing Hospitalized Patients—A Multidisciplinary Narrative Inquiry
Objective: Patient-centered care calls to contain patients in their time of crisis. This study extends the knowledge of provider patient interactions in the hectic environment of acute care applying Bion's container-contained framework from psychoanalysis. Methods: Following ethical approval, we performed a narrative inquiry of the experiences of ten patients upon discharge from lengthy hospitalizations in acute care. Interviews were conducted up…
Becoming a Bride
Traditional societies in a modern setting regulate marriage and supervise sexual behaviour to guarantee survival of the traditional family structure. The taboo on sexuality prevents young people from obtaining reliable information on intimate relations between men and women before and after marriage. This study examines how two collectivist traditional communities, Bedouin Arabs and ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews, work through social, formal, and i…
When is an academic degree the best vocational education? Bedouin professionals reflect on their life choices
We test Foster’s enduring assertion that “the best vocational education is an academic degree” by examining a case study of Israeli Bedouin women and men, young professionals who shared with us their personal stories of their parents taking them out of their local separate but equal schools and moving them to the majority schooling system. The narratives we collected enabled us to follow the education journey of Bedouin children whose achievement…
An Adlerian-Based Narrative Inquiry of Temporal Awareness, Resilience, and Patient-Centeredness Among Emergency Physicians-The Gyroscope Model
Introduction Although extensive research examined time perceptions among patients in the emergency department (ED), studies on temporal awareness among emergency physicians is scant. Salutogenics is the theoretical anchor. Methods The sample comprised ten emergency resident physicians from an Israeli public tertiary hospital. Narrative interviews were conducted. To determine the theme of the study, Adlerian narrative analysis was performed. To id…
Multiple identities
The desire of a minority group to integrate into society on equal terms with the majority is often expressed through the first-generation university degree holders of children sent by their parents to the schools of the majority group. The present study describes the multi-identities of Bedouin men and women who studied in the majority education system, a Jewish public school with Hebrew as its language of instruction with a different ethnic, rel…
Commemoration labour as a mechanism of symbolic violence exercised upon national widows
This study aims to examine the experience of national widows, who are expected by the state to practice commemoration labor. We claim that the state puts pressure on the widows, either openly or covertly, to perform commemoration labor, thereby depriving them of their right to private grief suited to their personality and needs. It is further claimed that the demand on the widows for commemoration labor corresponds closely to the phrase coined by…
Negative Symbolic Capital and Politicized Military Widowhood
This article presents the diametrically opposed experience of politicized widowhood of Jewish and Muslim Bedouin war widows. Widows in both sectors were interviewed regarding their perceived experiences of widowhood. While Jewish war widows are glorified and become national symbols, Bedouin widows are subject to marginalization and exclusion and cannot take advantage of the unique benefits they are accorded as war widows by the state. The artic…
Commemoration labor as emotional labor
The feminist literature addresses the various modes of gendered militarizing of women’s lives; however, little attention has been paid to the issue of militarization of national widows’ emotional lives. This study aims at exploring the experience of being a national widow and examining how national widows’ lives are militarized even after the husband’s death. By analyzing Jewish Israeli national widows’ narratives, we show how these widows are ex…
Liminality and Emotional Labor among war widows in Israel
This article focuses on Israeli army widows from the religious-Zionist sector and the Bedouin sector. We show how these women are compelled by their cultural context to either suffer liminal identity or to invest in exhausting Emotional Labor and fake their authentic selves. The surrounding society expects much more Emotional Labor of religious-Zionist widows than of their Bedouin counterparts; in contrast, the societal status of Bedouin widows r…
Neither here nor there” - Flattening, omission, and silencing, in the constructing of identity of Islamic girls who attend a Jewish school
The article presents narratives of young Bedouin women who attended Jewish schools. An analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with eight young women after they graduated high school and completed academic graduate studies was carried out by examining three mechanisms of choice of identity (Spector-Mersel) through the prism of the unsayable. The findings show a process fraught with representations of personal and social identities, demonstratin…
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
How does it feel to be an anti-martyr’s widow? The interplay of religious capital and negative symbolic capital of war widows
This article demonstrates the contrasting experiences of military widows in the modern Jewish Orthodox and the Bedouin sectors in Israel. While fallen Jewish soldiers are honored in a fashion similar to martyrs, Bedouin fallen soldiers are perceived as anti-martyrs; their anti-martyr status causes predicaments for their widows. While Jewish war widows are glorified, their Bedouin counterparts are subject to various modes of marginalization and ex…
Styles of narrative selection in crafting life stories
Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, that is, the different styles in which life stories unfold. Although there are references to the process within which life stories are produced, emphasizing selection as its organizing principle, no efforts have been made to explore the diverse m…
The spontaneous discourse of radio presenters in states of security emergency
Scholars from various research disciplines have focused on ways of helping a civilian population withstand mass natural or human-instigated disasters. The present study examines the theoretical principles suggested by Hobfoll et al. (safety, calming, efficacy, connectedness and hope) by an analysis of the spontaneous discourse of educational radio presenters during emergency broadcasts when the region’s residents live under the constant danger of…
The Israeli Selective Myopia and the Missing Culturally Sensitive Support for Bedouin IDF War Widows
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
Styles of narrative selection in crafting life stories
Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, that is, the different styles in which life stories unfold. Although there are references to the process within which life stories are produced, emphasizing selection as its organizing principle, no efforts have been made to explore the diverse m…
Neither here nor there” - Flattening, omission, and silencing, in the constructing of identity of Islamic girls who attend a Jewish school
The article presents narratives of young Bedouin women who attended Jewish schools. An analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with eight young women after they graduated high school and completed academic graduate studies was carried out by examining three mechanisms of choice of identity (Spector-Mersel) through the prism of the unsayable. The findings show a process fraught with representations of personal and social identities, demonstratin…
The Israeli Selective Myopia and the Missing Culturally Sensitive Support for Bedouin IDF War Widows
Collective and Individual Consciousness in Testimonies of Navy Divers
Sick Israeli Navy divers, who were exposed to chemical sewage during their army service, suspected that this exposure was the cause of their cancer. The divers appealed to the courts and demanded the establishment of an independent committee for the investigation of this issue. This step created strong emotional tension between the sick divers and their former brothers-in-arms from the navy. The aim of this paper is to describe the process by whi…
Therapy in the backyard’
Standardization of National Bereavement Rights Compromises Minorities’ Civic Equality
Standardization is a mechanism used to create uniformity and express the equal status of citizens facing governmental institutions. However, when standardization in various life aspects ignores fundamental differences between groups and individuals, it might increase inequality, compromise justice, and create explicit or implicit discrimination. This study exposes the mistake of identifying standardization with equality by looking at a specific a…
When is an academic degree the best vocational education? Bedouin professionals reflect on their life choices
We test Foster’s enduring assertion that “the best vocational education is an academic degree” by examining a case study of Israeli Bedouin women and men, young professionals who shared with us their personal stories of their parents taking them out of their local separate but equal schools and moving them to the majority schooling system. The narratives we collected enabled us to follow the education journey of Bedouin children whose achievement…
Multiple identities
The desire of a minority group to integrate into society on equal terms with the majority is often expressed through the first-generation university degree holders of children sent by their parents to the schools of the majority group. The present study describes the multi-identities of Bedouin men and women who studied in the majority education system, a Jewish public school with Hebrew as its language of instruction with a different ethnic, rel…
Bedouin Children and Their Reality Perceptions of the War Between Israel and Gaza
In the military conflict between Israel and Gaza, the Bedouins in Israel find themselves under attack by rockets launched from Gaza, and at the same time identifying with family members in Gaza who suffer casualties as a result of Israel’s operations. Bedouin children experience a threat to their safety, and are required to enter protected spaces when the siren sounds. Simultaneously, they are exposed to the Arab media, which one-sidedly views Is…
Collective and Individual Consciousness in Testimonies of Navy Divers
Sick Israeli Navy divers, who were exposed to chemical sewage during their army service, suspected that this exposure was the cause of their cancer. The divers appealed to the courts and demanded the establishment of an independent committee for the investigation of this issue. This step created strong emotional tension between the sick divers and their former brothers-in-arms from the navy. The aim of this paper is to describe the process by whi…
Projective Identification as a Defense Mechanism when Facing the Threat of an Ecological Hazard
Perceptions of the Absence and Reintegration of a Prisoner of War Father from the Perspective of His Children as Adults
The attitude of the local press to marginal groups
This article examines the 2001‒2003 coverage by the local press in the Haifa region of the struggle of the fishermen who claimed to have contracted cancer as a result of coming into contact with the polluted water of the Kishon River. It shows that the local press chose to deliver to its readers an ‘interpretive package’ that portrays the fishermen as ‘The River’s Heroes’, a group fighting for justice and morality for the benefit of all. However,…
Bedouin Children and Their Reality Perceptions of the War Between Israel and Gaza
In the military conflict between Israel and Gaza, the Bedouins in Israel find themselves under attack by rockets launched from Gaza, and at the same time identifying with family members in Gaza who suffer casualties as a result of Israel’s operations. Bedouin children experience a threat to their safety, and are required to enter protected spaces when the siren sounds. Simultaneously, they are exposed to the Arab media, which one-sidedly views Is…
The Israeli Selective Myopia and the Missing Culturally Sensitive Support for Bedouin IDF War Widows
How does it feel to be an anti-martyr’s widow? The interplay of religious capital and negative symbolic capital of war widows
This article demonstrates the contrasting experiences of military widows in the modern Jewish Orthodox and the Bedouin sectors in Israel. While fallen Jewish soldiers are honored in a fashion similar to martyrs, Bedouin fallen soldiers are perceived as anti-martyrs; their anti-martyr status causes predicaments for their widows. While Jewish war widows are glorified, their Bedouin counterparts are subject to various modes of marginalization and ex…
Styles of narrative selection in crafting life stories
Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, that is, the different styles in which life stories unfold. Although there are references to the process within which life stories are produced, emphasizing selection as its organizing principle, no efforts have been made to explore the diverse m…
The spontaneous discourse of radio presenters in states of security emergency
Scholars from various research disciplines have focused on ways of helping a civilian population withstand mass natural or human-instigated disasters. The present study examines the theoretical principles suggested by Hobfoll et al. (safety, calming, efficacy, connectedness and hope) by an analysis of the spontaneous discourse of educational radio presenters during emergency broadcasts when the region’s residents live under the constant danger of…
Liminality and Emotional Labor among war widows in Israel
This article focuses on Israeli army widows from the religious-Zionist sector and the Bedouin sector. We show how these women are compelled by their cultural context to either suffer liminal identity or to invest in exhausting Emotional Labor and fake their authentic selves. The surrounding society expects much more Emotional Labor of religious-Zionist widows than of their Bedouin counterparts; in contrast, the societal status of Bedouin widows r…
Neither here nor there” - Flattening, omission, and silencing, in the constructing of identity of Islamic girls who attend a Jewish school
The article presents narratives of young Bedouin women who attended Jewish schools. An analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with eight young women after they graduated high school and completed academic graduate studies was carried out by examining three mechanisms of choice of identity (Spector-Mersel) through the prism of the unsayable. The findings show a process fraught with representations of personal and social identities, demonstratin…
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
Negative Symbolic Capital and Politicized Military Widowhood
This article presents the diametrically opposed experience of politicized widowhood of Jewish and Muslim Bedouin war widows. Widows in both sectors were interviewed regarding their perceived experiences of widowhood. While Jewish war widows are glorified and become national symbols, Bedouin widows are subject to marginalization and exclusion and cannot take advantage of the unique benefits they are accorded as war widows by the state. The artic…
Commemoration labor as emotional labor
The feminist literature addresses the various modes of gendered militarizing of women’s lives; however, little attention has been paid to the issue of militarization of national widows’ emotional lives. This study aims at exploring the experience of being a national widow and examining how national widows’ lives are militarized even after the husband’s death. By analyzing Jewish Israeli national widows’ narratives, we show how these widows are ex…
Commemoration labour as a mechanism of symbolic violence exercised upon national widows
This study aims to examine the experience of national widows, who are expected by the state to practice commemoration labor. We claim that the state puts pressure on the widows, either openly or covertly, to perform commemoration labor, thereby depriving them of their right to private grief suited to their personality and needs. It is further claimed that the demand on the widows for commemoration labor corresponds closely to the phrase coined by…
From a View of the Hospital as a System to a View of the Suffering Patient
Purpose: Hospitals aspire to provide patient-centered care but are far from achieving it. This qualitative mixed methods study explored the capacity of hospital directors to shift from a hospital systemic-view to a suffering patient-view applying the Salutogenic theory. Methods: Following IRB, we conducted in-depth narrative interviews with six directors of the six Israeli academic tertiary public hospitals, focusing on their managerial role. In …
An Inverted Container in Containing and Not Containing Hospitalized Patients—A Multidisciplinary Narrative Inquiry
Objective: Patient-centered care calls to contain patients in their time of crisis. This study extends the knowledge of provider patient interactions in the hectic environment of acute care applying Bion's container-contained framework from psychoanalysis. Methods: Following ethical approval, we performed a narrative inquiry of the experiences of ten patients upon discharge from lengthy hospitalizations in acute care. Interviews were conducted up…
Becoming a Bride
Traditional societies in a modern setting regulate marriage and supervise sexual behaviour to guarantee survival of the traditional family structure. The taboo on sexuality prevents young people from obtaining reliable information on intimate relations between men and women before and after marriage. This study examines how two collectivist traditional communities, Bedouin Arabs and ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews, work through social, formal, and i…
When is an academic degree the best vocational education? Bedouin professionals reflect on their life choices
We test Foster’s enduring assertion that “the best vocational education is an academic degree” by examining a case study of Israeli Bedouin women and men, young professionals who shared with us their personal stories of their parents taking them out of their local separate but equal schools and moving them to the majority schooling system. The narratives we collected enabled us to follow the education journey of Bedouin children whose achievement…
An Adlerian-Based Narrative Inquiry of Temporal Awareness, Resilience, and Patient-Centeredness Among Emergency Physicians-The Gyroscope Model
Introduction Although extensive research examined time perceptions among patients in the emergency department (ED), studies on temporal awareness among emergency physicians is scant. Salutogenics is the theoretical anchor. Methods The sample comprised ten emergency resident physicians from an Israeli public tertiary hospital. Narrative interviews were conducted. To determine the theme of the study, Adlerian narrative analysis was performed. To id…
Multiple identities
The desire of a minority group to integrate into society on equal terms with the majority is often expressed through the first-generation university degree holders of children sent by their parents to the schools of the majority group. The present study describes the multi-identities of Bedouin men and women who studied in the majority education system, a Jewish public school with Hebrew as its language of instruction with a different ethnic, rel…
Growth and pain in life-story reflection of students in helping professions
The importance of reflective pedagogy is widely acknowledged in HE and is a cornerstone of the helping professions curricula, enhancing students’ self-awareness and reflective skills. The literature emphasizes the virtues of reflection for the students’ personal and professional growth but insufficiently addresses the emotional pain entailed. To contribute to filling this gap, we examined how 103 students of social work and educational counseling…
Standardization of National Bereavement Rights Compromises Minorities’ Civic Equality
Standardization is a mechanism used to create uniformity and express the equal status of citizens facing governmental institutions. However, when standardization in various life aspects ignores fundamental differences between groups and individuals, it might increase inequality, compromise justice, and create explicit or implicit discrimination. This study exposes the mistake of identifying standardization with equality by looking at a specific a…
Taboo and dynamic framing in the media coverage of gang rape
The study examines the media coverage of the case of suspected gang rape in Aiya Napa, Cyprus in the summer of 2019. The research question examined how the media covered this event while giving expression to various representations through dynamic framing. The study analyzed some 30 reports in the main news edition on two Israeli television channels using an original model developed for this study: The Dynamic Media Coverage Spectrum around the M…
Time and Ethics in Delivering Bad News in Institutionalized and Social Media
The public is exposed to information through two types of communication: institutionalized (radio, newspapers, and television) and informal, which includes information obtained through social networks (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Telegram) and mediated interpersonal communication (phone). In the case of institutionalized media, consumers are not active partners in content creation. Regarding social networks, the users are both content prod…
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Narrative (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)