Articles by Edna Aphek

Israel is a multicultural country, a country made up of different ethnic groups: many having their own culture, language and even religion.
There isn’t much contact between some of the groups, especially between the secular Jews and the ultra orthodox Jews and between the Jewish population and the Arab population which comprises about 1/6th of Israel’s population.

This paper describes an on going program initiated by Prof. Edna Aphek and carried out at the Alon School in MateYehuda, in Israel. The program ... Read on

The Internet, which connects about 200 million people and millions of pages, voice, sound, image and video files, has become a most powerful tool in the hands of those who know how to navigate it. The opportunity to use this powerful tool exists and is open to most strata of the population, regardless of the limitations of age, education, etc. Though the opportunity exists what actually happens is that the gap between Internet surfers and those who are not knowledgeable in Internet skills, is ever growing. The gap is widening between youngsters, the primary Internet user population, and adults and mostly seniors, who are not skilled at using a computer or the Internet.