Sarah L. Friedman

New findings from the George Washington UniversityUnfortunately, the plans for the distance communication research in Israel have been blocked, at least for now. At present, the Israeli military i...

On April 25, 2018, I received an email from one of the two investigators on the military two-person team, stating that higher-ups in the Israeli Defense Force determined that our proposed project a...

Great news! The Israeli Defense Force approved our research plan. It's own researchers will join our team in carrying out the work! We thank all the individuals who made this possible, including...

Department of Behavioral Sciences (IDF)After our June discussions with Israeli military scientists and further deliberations and work, we submitted a joint proposal to the leadership of The Behavio...

Now that the surveys are translated from English to Hebrew and I am visiting in Israel, Meytal Eran Jona and I (Sarah L. Friedman) met with Israeli Defense Force (IDF) researchers to seek their col...

Thanks again to family, friends and colleagues who supported the project of translating from English to Hebrew three surveys about distance communications between Israeli military parents and their...

To get pledges, my colleagues and I reached out to people we know in the US and in Israel.  Most of the pledges were made by individuals who live in the US.  We are not sure why.  I (SLF) would lik...

We will recruit 250 families of Israeli Defense Force Nagadim and Officers of diverse military rank and educational background.  Research conducted in the US suggests that this number of families p...

1.  The investigators for the study were in contact with a mental health leader in the Israeli Defense Force, Dr. Lucian Laur, to discuss the extent to which our study would be useful to the Israel...