Aluma Levi-Zohar

Research Analyst, Social Inclusion Team (Family Group)

Social Inclusion

Research analyst, Social Inclusion Team, Family Group at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB), Israel’s leading center for applied social research.

Aluma Levi-Zohar began working at MJB in 2019. Her main areas of research are: social service inspection policy, inspection of quality assurance services, and involving clients in inspection processes and determining policy.

Aluma holds a BA in International Relations and Communications and Journalism, and an MA in International Relations, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She can be contacted by email at [email protected] or telephone: 972-2-655-7431.

Social Inclusion

Using Google Trends to Examine Changes in the Demand for Prostitution in Israel
Aluma Levi-Zohar, Dr. Amir Falk, Dr. Dori Rivkin, Prof. Michael Hartal
2023

The objective of the study was to examine trends of change in the demand for prostitution in Israel using data on Google searches using prostitution-related terms. Specifically, the study examines changes in the demand for prostitution after the legislation of the Prohibition on Prostitution Consumption Law and will help draw conclusions about the impact of law and whether to extend the law for an additional period.

Quality Assurance

Social NGOs’ Patterns of Securing Support during COVID-19 and Reasons for Underutilizing the Emergency Government-Philanthropy Fund
Talia Hasin, Aluma Levi-Zohar
2021

The study was designed to examine the patterns whereby Israeli social NGOs turn to sources of support following the COVID-19 crisis, and in particular, the underutilization of the Government-Philanthropy Fund.

Arab Population

Quality Assurance

Examination of the Work Plans for the Socio-Economic Development Plan for the Negev Bedouin: 2017-2021 (Government Resolution 2397) – Final Report
Dr. Tal Lento, Efrat Shenhav, Hilla Dolev, Aluma Levi-Zohar, Lior Kedem Kadish
2021

The study is intended to contribute to the improvement of the work plans ahead of the implementation of the next five-year plan. To that end, the following aspects were examined: the best practices and principles of operation for formulating work plans for government resolutions, specifically complex and inter-ministerial resolutions; the way in which the work plans of the partners to government resolution 2397 were formulated; the quality of the formulated work plans; and the plan implementation monitoring and follow-up activities.

Quality Assurance

Work Plans for Government Resolution 2397- Evaluation of Development Process and Follow-Up of Plan Implementation
Dr. Tal Lento, Efrat Shenhav, Hilla Dolev, Aluma Levi-Zohar, Lior Kedem Kadish
2021

The goal of this study is to examine the development process of the work plans for Government Resolution 2397, their implementation, and the monitoring of their implementation. The study is intended to contribute to the groundwork in preparation for the next five-year plan for the years 2022–2026.

Quality Assurance

Workplans: A Tool for Implementing Government Resolutions – An International Review
Dr. Tal Lento, Hilla Dolev, Aluma Levi-Zohar
2021

This review will examine the best practices for formulating a workplan in the public sector, with the goal of improving the formulation of workplans in preparation for the next Five-Year Plan for Socioeconomic Development among the Bedouin Population in the Negev for the period 2022–2026.

Quality Assurance

Service User Involvement in the Regulation of Social Services: Mechanisms, Challenges and Best Practice Principles – International Review
Hilla Dolev, Aluma Levi-Zohar
2020

The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute was commissioned by the Division for Research, Planning and Training at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and Services to conduct an international review in order to examine trends and applied strategies used by inspectorates to involve service users in socialservice regulation tasks. This, with the goal of contributing to the shaping of Ministry policy to improve the quality of the services, in particular regarding regulation policy.