A Binhas
Biographic Data
| ID | 40886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Binhas |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Binhas |
| SIGNATURE | BINHAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beit Berl College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0791-1590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Variations in school-level implementation of immigrant integration policy in the Israeli education system
Gender comparison of Jewish ultra-orthodox PhD students
This study examines the identity-shaping processes of Israeli-Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) doctoral students and graduates of both genders. The research question is, how do Haredi women and men cope with their academic versus their Haredi identity in their higher education study, and what are the similarities and differences between them? Based on the findings, we suggest the need to develop tools for more effective coping with the encounter of…
Uprooting and resilience: Women’s experiences of war displacement
The results were conceptualized in terms of the resilience cycle and anchoring. We suggest that the women move from the deterioration phase to the growth phase of the resilience cycle, with bidirectional movement between stages. A key factor directing movement between stages was the presence or absence of anchors in the woman's life. Implications for practice and policy, such as reinforcing relevant anchors in the women's lives, recognizing the c…
Vision, Function, and Influence: Analyzing NGOs for a Shared Society in Israel
This study analyzes four Israeli NGOs promoting shared society using the McKinsey 7S Framework to assess their internal alignment and effectiveness in achieving their goals. This study employed a qualitative approach. We interviewed seven key figures—directors and keyholders—from four NGOs, some with co‐leadership structures. We employed two methods: semi‐structured interviews to understand the organizations' vision, strategies, and challenges an…
Alone on the Bridge: The Intersectional Identity and Mediating Role of Israeli Educators of Ethiopian Descent
Intercultural mediation has developed significantly in recent decades in various public systems, including the education system. In Israel, hundreds of mediators from various social groups serve to bridge between the parents and community on the one hand, and the school on another. This role involves a personal and professional challenge given the mediators' intersectional identity as members of both a migrant group and the host culture, where th…
Are Hybrid Organizations Always Beneficial
We examined a new type of hybrid organization—an Israeli private-public organization created during COVID-19 to serve older adults and schoolchildren—and the effects of its hybrid nature on its organizational culture. Using the results of 18 interviews, 10 direct observations, and the insights of Schein’s iceberg model, we determined that the relationships within the organization were characterized by widespread mistrust among members, influenced…
Integration and intersection: Ethnic minority women educators in Israel
"Looking at myself critically" fostering Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli pre-service teachers in building a shared society through intercultural dialogue within an academic course
Teachers as street-level bureaucrats: Work with immigrant children in Israel
Hybrid religious civil society organization, the Israeli case of “the path upwards” lesson learned
Purpose This study aims to investigate the unique cultural attributes of a particular association. The research focuses on a single case study involving a civil society organization whose activities are focused within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Specifically, the association under examination is a religious voluntary organization engaged in social activities within the Israeli Defense Forces. Design/methodology/approach Data collection empl…
NGOs for a Shared Society in Israel
In societies experiencing intractable conflicts, civil society may seek conflict-management solutions that are not necessarily political or institutional. Israel, with a century-old conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs, has various NGOs trying to bring both sides together in different ways. The present study focuses on four such NGOs: Merchavim, Hand in Hand, Abraham Initiatives, and Sikkuy-Aufoq. Drawing on their websites and publications…
How NGOs May Promote a Shared Society in Conflict-Affected Areas: The Cases of Israel and Cyprus
This article comparatively examines the results of a qualitative study of how non-governmental organizations ( NGO s) may promote a shared society in the conflict-affected areas of Israel and Cyprus. The authors have chosen to set their research in these two contexts, where the complex relationships between the majority and the minority communities have led to persistent conflicts that seem rather ‘intractable’ and ‘frozen’. Three thematic catego…
Teaching Hebrew as second language in Arab schools in Israel: Policy and identity politics
Students belonging to the substantial Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel – about one-fifth of the population – are required to study Hebrew as a second language (SL). This study analyzes the policy of teaching Hebrew as SL through content analysis of policy papers, questionnaires and interviews with teachers. It aims to elicit the meaning of studying the majority language by the minority in practical and ethnonational identity terms. The finding…
Walking between the raindrops”: The hybrid and Intersecting Identities of Arab women with a PhD in Israel
Social identity dilemmas of ultra-orthodox men in Israeli higher education
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the unique dilemmas and challenges of ultra-orthodox men in academia. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted in the phenomenology approach. It explores the experience and the process that shape the social identity of higher-educated Haredi men through the life stories of twenty individuals. Findings The research found the developmental path of Haredi-educated males, till they adopted a hybridist …
“I’m Like a Chameleon”: Coping Strategies Used by Haredi Women Doctoral Students Reconciling Their Religious and Academic Identities
PhD-educated Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women as an Interpretive Cultural Phenomenon
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel is in a process of change involving growing integration into academia, the labor market, and the military. This study deals with the integration of Ultra-Orthodox women into academia. Specifically, it examines how Haredi female PhDs cope with two different value systems. The study utilizes the sociological definitions of dominant culture, subcultures of values, and countercultures. The methodology is qual…
Policy entrepreneurs and anti-racism policies
Under what conditions will those who fight against racism shift their strategies from traditional political participation to entrepreneurial activity? What would the institutional characteristics of the new organizations be, and what strategies would their activists employ? Whereas previous studies on anti-racism activities focused on traditional collective organizational patterns of action, this study examines the phenomenon on the individual le…
Immigration policy vis-à-vis teachers’ views regarding immigrant students: The Israeli case
Over the years, perspectives in Israeli society on the integration of immigrant students into the country’s education system have moved from a melting-pot to a multiculturalist principle. We investigate whether and to what degree the official discourse on education policy endorses either of these approaches and the extent to which teachers’ views about the integration of immigrant students correspond to the mainstream education policy. The study …
Innovation in Protest Strategies of Ethiopian Immigrants’ Organizations in Israel
Since the 1990s, organizations formed by Israelis of Ethiopian origin (IEO) have criticized the government’s policy toward them. This article deals with the development of, and innovation in, those organizations’ activities. Our research question looks at the elements of innovation that helped these organizations improve the effectiveness of their work with the government and in the public sphere. We base our study on interviews with IEO activist…
Teachers as street level bureaucrats and their role as cultural mediators in the integration of immigrants: The Israeli case
Schools, as public institutions cope with the challenge of immigrant absorption. Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucrats argues that civil servants at the end of the hierarchy are the most significant in implementing policy. This article examined the conditions that lead teachers to become street-level bureaucrats and cultural mediators, and how they influence student immigration policy. The qualitative study included interviews with 25 teach…
Do institutions matter in the age of governance? The Jewish Agency as a metaphor
The era of new governance in the last decades reflects the expanded space granted to the two non-state sectors – business and non-profit – in policy-making and implementation. By way of exploring whether and to what extent the institutional approach is still an effective method of analysing public policy, this article investigates the Jewish Agency for Israel as a case study, testing existing definitions for non-governmental organisations (NGOs a…
You Have to Start from Scratch and You Need Someone by Your Side”: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers on Immigrant Students’ Adaptation to School
This article analyses the issue of immigrant students’ adaptation in Israeli schools, as perceived by their parents and teachers. The study integrates data from two qualitative, phenomenological studies: one explored immigrant parents’ perceptions of Israeli education and their children’s adaptation in school, while the other studied teachers’ perceptions of immigrant students’ education and their practices in the field. The data was gathered fro…
Are you being served?’ The Jewish Agency and the absorption of Ethiopian immigration
This article addresses the question of how the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) handled the absorption of Ethiopian immigrants in the early 1990s. It shows that, reflecting the historic rivalry between the two organizations, their interaction lacked a clear division of roles and was mired by rivalry and conflicting interests. As a result, the individual immigrant, besides dealing with predictable absorption difficulties,…
The Worker's Hotline in Israel: Simultaneous Subculture of Opposition and Collaboration
This paper studies the cultural features of one organization promoting workers' social welfare. The Worker's Hotline challenges human rights violations by exploitive employers and the Israeli government. The Worker's Hotline uses a variety of political strategies: collaborating with governmental agencies and fighting against the authorities, even while being funded by them. The main research question is: What is the Hotline's defining cultural fe…
Are you being served?’ The Jewish Agency and the absorption of Ethiopian immigration
This article addresses the question of how the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) handled the absorption of Ethiopian immigrants in the early 1990s. It shows that, reflecting the historic rivalry between the two organizations, their interaction lacked a clear division of roles and was mired by rivalry and conflicting interests. As a result, the individual immigrant, besides dealing with predictable absorption difficulties,…
Teachers as street level bureaucrats and their role as cultural mediators in the integration of immigrants: The Israeli case
Schools, as public institutions cope with the challenge of immigrant absorption. Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucrats argues that civil servants at the end of the hierarchy are the most significant in implementing policy. This article examined the conditions that lead teachers to become street-level bureaucrats and cultural mediators, and how they influence student immigration policy. The qualitative study included interviews with 25 teach…
NGOs helping migrants: An Israeli case study of counterculture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the NGOs in the immigration field as a counterculture working simultaneously with and against the establishment. Design/methodology/approach – Case study approach using interviews and documents analysis. Findings – This paper studies the cultural features of three civil associations, interested in promoting social welfare for immigrants. These NGOs challenge the Israeli government when it violates h…
"Looking at myself critically" fostering Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli pre-service teachers in building a shared society through intercultural dialogue within an academic course
Walking between the raindrops”: The hybrid and Intersecting Identities of Arab women with a PhD in Israel
Social identity dilemmas of ultra-orthodox men in Israeli higher education
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the unique dilemmas and challenges of ultra-orthodox men in academia. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted in the phenomenology approach. It explores the experience and the process that shape the social identity of higher-educated Haredi men through the life stories of twenty individuals. Findings The research found the developmental path of Haredi-educated males, till they adopted a hybridist …
PhD-educated Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women as an Interpretive Cultural Phenomenon
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel is in a process of change involving growing integration into academia, the labor market, and the military. This study deals with the integration of Ultra-Orthodox women into academia. Specifically, it examines how Haredi female PhDs cope with two different value systems. The study utilizes the sociological definitions of dominant culture, subcultures of values, and countercultures. The methodology is qual…
Policy entrepreneurs and anti-racism policies
Under what conditions will those who fight against racism shift their strategies from traditional political participation to entrepreneurial activity? What would the institutional characteristics of the new organizations be, and what strategies would their activists employ? Whereas previous studies on anti-racism activities focused on traditional collective organizational patterns of action, this study examines the phenomenon on the individual le…
You Have to Start from Scratch and You Need Someone by Your Side”: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers on Immigrant Students’ Adaptation to School
This article analyses the issue of immigrant students’ adaptation in Israeli schools, as perceived by their parents and teachers. The study integrates data from two qualitative, phenomenological studies: one explored immigrant parents’ perceptions of Israeli education and their children’s adaptation in school, while the other studied teachers’ perceptions of immigrant students’ education and their practices in the field. The data was gathered fro…
The Worker's Hotline in Israel: Simultaneous Subculture of Opposition and Collaboration
This paper studies the cultural features of one organization promoting workers' social welfare. The Worker's Hotline challenges human rights violations by exploitive employers and the Israeli government. The Worker's Hotline uses a variety of political strategies: collaborating with governmental agencies and fighting against the authorities, even while being funded by them. The main research question is: What is the Hotline's defining cultural fe…
NGOs helping migrants: An Israeli case study of counterculture
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the NGOs in the immigration field as a counterculture working simultaneously with and against the establishment. Design/methodology/approach – Case study approach using interviews and documents analysis. Findings – This paper studies the cultural features of three civil associations, interested in promoting social welfare for immigrants. These NGOs challenge the Israeli government when it violates h…
Are you being served?’ The Jewish Agency and the absorption of Ethiopian immigration
This article addresses the question of how the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) handled the absorption of Ethiopian immigrants in the early 1990s. It shows that, reflecting the historic rivalry between the two organizations, their interaction lacked a clear division of roles and was mired by rivalry and conflicting interests. As a result, the individual immigrant, besides dealing with predictable absorption difficulties,…
The Worker's Hotline in Israel: Simultaneous Subculture of Opposition and Collaboration
This paper studies the cultural features of one organization promoting workers' social welfare. The Worker's Hotline challenges human rights violations by exploitive employers and the Israeli government. The Worker's Hotline uses a variety of political strategies: collaborating with governmental agencies and fighting against the authorities, even while being funded by them. The main research question is: What is the Hotline's defining cultural fe…
Do institutions matter in the age of governance? The Jewish Agency as a metaphor
The era of new governance in the last decades reflects the expanded space granted to the two non-state sectors – business and non-profit – in policy-making and implementation. By way of exploring whether and to what extent the institutional approach is still an effective method of analysing public policy, this article investigates the Jewish Agency for Israel as a case study, testing existing definitions for non-governmental organisations (NGOs a…
You Have to Start from Scratch and You Need Someone by Your Side”: Perspectives of Parents and Teachers on Immigrant Students’ Adaptation to School
This article analyses the issue of immigrant students’ adaptation in Israeli schools, as perceived by their parents and teachers. The study integrates data from two qualitative, phenomenological studies: one explored immigrant parents’ perceptions of Israeli education and their children’s adaptation in school, while the other studied teachers’ perceptions of immigrant students’ education and their practices in the field. The data was gathered fro…
Immigration policy vis-à-vis teachers’ views regarding immigrant students: The Israeli case
Over the years, perspectives in Israeli society on the integration of immigrant students into the country’s education system have moved from a melting-pot to a multiculturalist principle. We investigate whether and to what degree the official discourse on education policy endorses either of these approaches and the extent to which teachers’ views about the integration of immigrant students correspond to the mainstream education policy. The study …
Innovation in Protest Strategies of Ethiopian Immigrants’ Organizations in Israel
Since the 1990s, organizations formed by Israelis of Ethiopian origin (IEO) have criticized the government’s policy toward them. This article deals with the development of, and innovation in, those organizations’ activities. Our research question looks at the elements of innovation that helped these organizations improve the effectiveness of their work with the government and in the public sphere. We base our study on interviews with IEO activist…
Teachers as street level bureaucrats and their role as cultural mediators in the integration of immigrants: The Israeli case
Schools, as public institutions cope with the challenge of immigrant absorption. Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucrats argues that civil servants at the end of the hierarchy are the most significant in implementing policy. This article examined the conditions that lead teachers to become street-level bureaucrats and cultural mediators, and how they influence student immigration policy. The qualitative study included interviews with 25 teach…
Policy entrepreneurs and anti-racism policies
Under what conditions will those who fight against racism shift their strategies from traditional political participation to entrepreneurial activity? What would the institutional characteristics of the new organizations be, and what strategies would their activists employ? Whereas previous studies on anti-racism activities focused on traditional collective organizational patterns of action, this study examines the phenomenon on the individual le…
“I’m Like a Chameleon”: Coping Strategies Used by Haredi Women Doctoral Students Reconciling Their Religious and Academic Identities
PhD-educated Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women as an Interpretive Cultural Phenomenon
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel is in a process of change involving growing integration into academia, the labor market, and the military. This study deals with the integration of Ultra-Orthodox women into academia. Specifically, it examines how Haredi female PhDs cope with two different value systems. The study utilizes the sociological definitions of dominant culture, subcultures of values, and countercultures. The methodology is qual…
NGOs for a Shared Society in Israel
In societies experiencing intractable conflicts, civil society may seek conflict-management solutions that are not necessarily political or institutional. Israel, with a century-old conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs, has various NGOs trying to bring both sides together in different ways. The present study focuses on four such NGOs: Merchavim, Hand in Hand, Abraham Initiatives, and Sikkuy-Aufoq. Drawing on their websites and publications…
How NGOs May Promote a Shared Society in Conflict-Affected Areas: The Cases of Israel and Cyprus
This article comparatively examines the results of a qualitative study of how non-governmental organizations ( NGO s) may promote a shared society in the conflict-affected areas of Israel and Cyprus. The authors have chosen to set their research in these two contexts, where the complex relationships between the majority and the minority communities have led to persistent conflicts that seem rather ‘intractable’ and ‘frozen’. Three thematic catego…
Teaching Hebrew as second language in Arab schools in Israel: Policy and identity politics
Students belonging to the substantial Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel – about one-fifth of the population – are required to study Hebrew as a second language (SL). This study analyzes the policy of teaching Hebrew as SL through content analysis of policy papers, questionnaires and interviews with teachers. It aims to elicit the meaning of studying the majority language by the minority in practical and ethnonational identity terms. The finding…
Walking between the raindrops”: The hybrid and Intersecting Identities of Arab women with a PhD in Israel
Social identity dilemmas of ultra-orthodox men in Israeli higher education
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the unique dilemmas and challenges of ultra-orthodox men in academia. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted in the phenomenology approach. It explores the experience and the process that shape the social identity of higher-educated Haredi men through the life stories of twenty individuals. Findings The research found the developmental path of Haredi-educated males, till they adopted a hybridist …
"Looking at myself critically" fostering Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli pre-service teachers in building a shared society through intercultural dialogue within an academic course
Teachers as street-level bureaucrats: Work with immigrant children in Israel
Hybrid religious civil society organization, the Israeli case of “the path upwards” lesson learned
Purpose This study aims to investigate the unique cultural attributes of a particular association. The research focuses on a single case study involving a civil society organization whose activities are focused within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Specifically, the association under examination is a religious voluntary organization engaged in social activities within the Israeli Defense Forces. Design/methodology/approach Data collection empl…
Vision, Function, and Influence: Analyzing NGOs for a Shared Society in Israel
This study analyzes four Israeli NGOs promoting shared society using the McKinsey 7S Framework to assess their internal alignment and effectiveness in achieving their goals. This study employed a qualitative approach. We interviewed seven key figures—directors and keyholders—from four NGOs, some with co‐leadership structures. We employed two methods: semi‐structured interviews to understand the organizations' vision, strategies, and challenges an…
Alone on the Bridge: The Intersectional Identity and Mediating Role of Israeli Educators of Ethiopian Descent
Intercultural mediation has developed significantly in recent decades in various public systems, including the education system. In Israel, hundreds of mediators from various social groups serve to bridge between the parents and community on the one hand, and the school on another. This role involves a personal and professional challenge given the mediators' intersectional identity as members of both a migrant group and the host culture, where th…
Are Hybrid Organizations Always Beneficial
We examined a new type of hybrid organization—an Israeli private-public organization created during COVID-19 to serve older adults and schoolchildren—and the effects of its hybrid nature on its organizational culture. Using the results of 18 interviews, 10 direct observations, and the insights of Schein’s iceberg model, we determined that the relationships within the organization were characterized by widespread mistrust among members, influenced…
Integration and intersection: Ethnic minority women educators in Israel
Variations in school-level implementation of immigrant integration policy in the Israeli education system
Gender comparison of Jewish ultra-orthodox PhD students
This study examines the identity-shaping processes of Israeli-Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) doctoral students and graduates of both genders. The research question is, how do Haredi women and men cope with their academic versus their Haredi identity in their higher education study, and what are the similarities and differences between them? Based on the findings, we suggest the need to develop tools for more effective coping with the encounter of…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Judaism (8 works)