Sivan Zakai

“A Lot of Horrible Things Have Happened”: Jewish Children’s Beliefs about October 7th and its Aftermath* (2025)

Ages and Stages of Learning About Israel: A Developmental Review of the Literature on Israel Education* (2025)

Learning the Language of Zionism (2025)

“We’re Not Friends Anymore Because I Support Israel”: Evolving Beliefs about Israel Politics from Elementary to Middle School (2024)

“It Makes Me Feel Many Different Things”: A Child’s Relationship to Israel Over Time (2021)

“A Little Bit More Far Than Mexico”: How 3- and 4-year-old Jewish Preschool Students Understand Israel* (2021)

“I’m Going to Israel and All I need to Pack is My Imagination”: Pretend Trips to Israel in Jewish Early Childhood Education* (2020)

From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting the Focus of Understanding American Jewish Relationships to Israel (2019)

“Bad Things Happened”: How Children of the Digital Age Make Sense of Violent Current Events (2018)

When Past and Present Collide: Dilemmas in Teaching the History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2018)

History that Matters: How Students Make Sense of Historical Texts (2018)

Connection and Disconnection: The Paradox of Israel Education in the 21^st Century (2018)

American Jewish Children’s Thoughts and Feelings About the Jewish State: Laying the Groundwork for a Developmental Approach to Israel Education* (2016)

A Rigorous Dialectic: Writing and Thinking in History* (2016)

The Stories of Our National Past: History and Heritage in a Jewish High School (2015)

“Israel is Meant for Me”: Kindergarteners’ Conceptions of Israel (2015)

 “My Heart is in the East and I am in the West”: Enduring Dilemmas of Israel Education in North America (2014)

“Now Where Do We Go From Here?”: Separateness, Integration, and Pluralism in Philadelphia* (2013)

Purposes and Practices of Israel/Hebrew Education: Towards a Joint Agenda for Applied Research* (2012)

Values in Tension: Israel Education at a U.S. Jewish Day School (2011)

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