Yair Galily

Reichman University (IDC) Herzliya

הספר שלפנינו, "מומחיות ומצוינות: פרספקטיבה רב-תחומית" הוא הראשון בשפה העברית שמאגד 23 פרקים ו 4 ראיונות עם מומחים בתחומי-ידע שונים, ששופך אור על רכישה ויישום של פעולות וביצועים ברמה גבוהה של מיומנות לאורך זמן. לפיכך, החלטנו לחלק את תכני הספר לשלושה חלקים: חלק א', הגדרות, גישות ומחקר, מתבסס על תשעה פרקים שמתייחסים לבסיס הגנטי (בן זקן) והעצבי (עמדי)...

The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to integrate several theoretical perspectives into a novel Meta-model of Adaption in Sport (MAS model) and (2) to support the MAS model with a narrative literature review on change-provoking events and related adaptation processes, factors involved, and outcomes. The MAS model is designed to account for two pot...

the presence of sports fans in the stands is considered a natural and essential element of most if not all sporting events. Beyond the atmosphere fans create and the color they add to the game, their presence reflects the idea that the game is more than a competition between two teams -it is a grand battle between communities and identities, which...

Purpose Despite the ability of podcasts to bring free quality content to the masses, studies found that podcast consumption have been identified mostly with the elite class, thus increasing knowledge gaps and digital divides. This study aims to examine whether this trend extends to non-elitist podcast genres by providing the first analysis of sport...

This book contextualizes the Munich massacre as one of the factors that contributed to a re-thinking of security strategies in the early 1970s, a moment in the evolution of modern governments’ fight against terrorism. In the early hours of September 5th, 1972, heavily armed members of the Palestinian group, Black September, turned terrorism into a...

Functional technological applications have become an integral part of our lives changing our patterns of reasoning and behavior. The current study examines whether, how and why use of WAZE app, a popular GPS-based navigation application, demonstrate behaviors and patterns which resemble those of technological dependency. We conducted semi-structure...

Sports have always been a source of attraction and interest and have frequently been laden with social and cultural meanings. Although sports presume to be fair and free of external interests, they are usually greatly influenced by local and international politics (Galily, 2007). Moreover, in recent decades, broad economic importance has become an...

Sport fanship is immeasurable and represents one of society's most universal leisure activities. The current collection of research on the fanship phenomena is truly global: 25 scholars from 4 continents (including North and south America, UK, Australia, Norway, Netherland, and Israel) looked closely at various dimensions of sport fanship. The ongo...

Toward better understanding the nature of sport global protest, this article examines the profiles of users of the #boycottqatar2022 ( N = 111,172), a global initiative calling to boycott the 2022 World Cup on grounds of Qatar’s alleged breach of human rights. A social network analysis identified that 82% of users of the hashtag were from North Ame...

The current study examines the extent to which mega sport events play a role in connecting people from different countries, using the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as its case study. The analysis examines social connection (on Twitter) between Chinese and Russians and whether these connections are more likely to occur among the followers of the @Bei...

In the modern era of commercialized, mediated, and global football, there is a decline in the importance of the local aspect of sports fandom. Nowadays, through television broadcasts, the Internet, and especially social networks, a fan continuously follows elite football clubs from around the world, which provide an alternative to local clubs. This...

This article contextualises the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre as an important factor in the advent of state counterterrorism strategy aimed at foreclosing the next terrorist outrage. While Mossad’s Operation Wrath of God failed to trace all culprits of the massacre, it nevertheless killed its mastermind Ali Hassan Salameh alongside scores of key PL...

The current research looks at media consumption patterns of members of generations Y and Z, who grew up in an age of significant digital communications and Internet changes. A comprehensive survey of 800 Israeli respondents was conducted: 500 from Gen Y and 300 from Gen Z. The findings show intergenerational differences in media consumption pattern...

The NBA has undergone formative changes since commissioner David Stern began his tenure. Stern has endeavored to make the NBA a consumer-friendly and marketable league by implementing sanctions on physical violence. This study takes a closer look at Stern's efforts by examining the interplay between two forms of violence in NBA basketball players o...

The growing power of the media to define social values and perceptions is a conspicuous feature of contemporary life. Radio is one such shaper of social reality perceptions. While much of the media research focuses on secular organisations operating in a Western, liberal context, not much attention has been paid to this tension between religion and...

This chapter examined the case study of Israel’s sport diplomacy. This case is unique and worth examining because, on the one hand, Israel faces adversity and boycott due to the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict; on the other hand, it proactively invests in sport as part of its nation branding efforts. A great illustration is the investment in I...

Upon the emergence of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic (CP), football referees were forced to cope with the interruption of leagues and experience quarantines, with a potential threat to their physical and psychological well-being. This study examined referees’ perceptions of the CP change-event, particularly the effects on refereeing engagement and p...

The current research looks at media consumption patterns of members of generations Y and Z, who grew up in an age of significant digital communications and Internet changes. A comprehensive survey of 800 Israeli respondents was conducted: 500 from Gen Y and 300 from Gen Z. The findings show intergenerational differences in media consumption pattern...

This article proposes that WhatsApp can offer insights into couples' relationships. Based on Gottman's therapy model, which mathematically analyzes marital conflicts, this study focuses on couples' WhatsApp correspondence and asks to what extent it reflects the offline relationships of Generation X. The research was conducted over a year using semi...

ראיון

במאמר זה נדגיש את תהליך המעבר של אוהדי הספורט מצפייה במגרשים אל אמצעי התקשורת ה״מסורתיים״ ומשם לצפייה בכמה מסכים בד בבד. נטען כי למעשה אנו חווים דור שלישי של ״שימושים וסיפוקים״ שבו הצופים באירועי ספורט עושים זאת באמצעות כמה אמצעי מדיה מתווכים לצד פעילות חברתית מקבילה ברשתות חברתיות. מטרת המחקר הייתה להבין מדוע, בניגוד לכל הסוגות (הז'אנרים) האחרות,...

In this article, we will emphasize the process of the transition of sports fans from watching the pitches to the "traditional" media and from there to watching several screens at once. It has been argued that we are actually experiencing a third generation of "uses and satisfactions" in which viewers of sporting events do so through several mediati...

The aim of the current compendium on the psychology of sport, performance, and ethics was to assemble both theoretical and applied research from experts within the field of sport psychology, sociology, performance, and exercise. Twelve articles, written by researchers from Brazil, China, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Ta...

sraeli Football: Culture, Politics, and Identity focuses on the diverse aspects of the evolution of Israeli football and the social effects of these on-going processes. In the span of nine decades, Israeli football has become a faithful representation of society and its key developments. The organizational structure of the teams and their ethnic c...

The aim of the current compendium on the psychology of sport, performance, and ethics was to assemble both theoretical and applied research from experts within the field of sport psychology, sociology, performance, and exercise. Twelve articles, written by researchers from Brazil, China, Germany, Israel, Netherland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan,...

תחיית תרבות הגוף העברית כחלק מתחייתו הלאומית של העם היהודי באה לידי ביטוי באמצעות שילובה בחינוך ובתרבות העברית. אחד האמצעים שתרמו יותר מכול להטמעתה בקרב האזרחים היה הרדיו. האפשרות להשתמש ברדיו ככלי לתקשורת המונים שמעביר מסרים לקהל הרחב של אנשים בו בזמן, נוצלה היטב על ידי מדינות רבות ככלי ראשון במעלה לאיחוד תושבי המדינה ולגיבושה של קהילה משותפת. איר...

Objectives Despite a growing body of literature on athletes' migration, the mobility and migration experiences of coaches have received limited attention. In this study, we explored the mobility and migration experiences of transnational coaches operating within the Israeli handball context. Design A qualitative study was conducted, underpinned by...

Radio is a cultural producer and a main player in the music industry. Radio operates a system that determines which music will be broadcast and which music will not make it ‘on the air,’ functioning as gatekeeper for the general audience. Such a system gives radio significant influence on the music to which listeners are exposed. By way of offering...

The inclusion of the video assistant referee (VAR) in the Laws of the Game (International Football Association Board; IFAB, 2018a) reflects a historic action in the world of soccer. The VAR was designed to reduce critical errors in soccer referees’ decision-making (DM), thereby increasing the social perceptions of justice. From the referees’ perspe...

Goal celebration in sport is mostly spontaneous and is manifested via vocal expressions and bodily gestures aimed at communicating emotions. The aim of this study is to decon-struct the celebratory acts among elite professional football players in the European Champions League following scoring a goal, and to capture the multiple acts and functions...

Goal celebration in sport is mostly spontaneous and is manifested via vocal expressions and bodily gestures aimed at communicating emotions. The aim of this study is to deconstruct the celebratory acts among elite professional football players in the European Champions League following scoring a goal, and to capture the multiple acts and functions...

The Coronavirus experience (CE) presents a highly challenging period for sport performers (e.g., athletes, coaches, referees), with potential effects on their lives and career trajectories. In this article, we initially conceptualize the CE using the scheme of change for sport psychology practice (Samuel & Tenenbaum, 2011a). Within this framework,...

In May 1929, the Israel Football association was officially recognised by international sport organisations, after extensive political efforts. International recognition effectively institutionalised Israel’s popular sport, ¹ which would eventually become not only the focus of massive interest but also a major actor in the social, economic, and pol...

The article seeks to document the changing patterns in football fandom over the past three decades, since the advent of the so-called era of globalisation, using the case study of Israel. It shows how, in line with global trends, Israeli fans moved from passive following of sport clubs identified with political parties to becoming active supporters...

Several prior studies have shown that success during fierce sport competitions may put extra pressure on teams that lag behind and boost performance of teams that experienced success. In basketball, games that are tied at the end of regulation time proceed to five minutes overtime. An overtime is a particularly stressful situation because players a...

Decision-making (DM) is a critical aspect of soccer refereeing. Referees make numerous repetitive decisions, many of which are dependent on appropriate field location and effective interaction with their assistants. Most extant research has focused on the underlying mechanism of the DM process as well as on various influential factors. Much of the...

In an era in which independent journalism is flourishing in social media and appears to be changing the world of journalism, it is important to understand and identify how the culture of online journalism differs from the features of traditional journalism. Building on Bourdieu’s field theory, the current study looked at journalist perceptions of v...

This study traces, conceptually and historically, how the relationship between Israeli soccer, its fans, and the varied means of communications has evolved over the last century. We contend that these symbiotic relations, including their effects on soccer devotees, can be divided into four sub-epochs, each having a tremendous effect, not only on th...

Decision-making is a critical aspect of soccer referees' performance. Yet current training methods that simulate the refereeing task are limited. Skilled soccer referees (N = 22, M age = 27.14 years, SD = 6.40) were tested on a new decision-making simulator during the active part of the season. They ran on a treadmill for 60 min at varying paces wh...

As many sport scholars claimed before, sport does not operate in isolation from broader society. Instead, sport serves as a site where societal inequalities such as racism, sexism, economic stratification, and other forms of oppression are reproduced, exacerbated, and/or ignored. Thus, the aim of the current paper is to look chronologically and con...

This study examines the case of basketball superstar LeBron James, who openly identifies as a liberal. Our analysis of LeBron James's Twitter profile revealed normal distribution between liberals and conservatives following his account. We then compared James’ followers’ distribution to those of the singer Lady Gaga and liberal-tilting sport networ...

Football is an important field of human endeavor that has the potential to project behavior into other spheres of life. Due to its competitive nature, football offers a platform for the employment of a variety of unethical behaviors. Although deliberate time-wasting is against the rules, it is rarely, if ever, enforced by the referees. Such conditi...

he communication industry undergoes a constant process of adaptation and is currently adapting to the online digital age. As such, radio is trying to retain its identity whilst at the same time expanding its traditional products and services by adopting characteristics of this age, such as interactive content, online archives and podcasts. As a res...

Jesus told his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:23-24). Ditto for heroes. The current study suggests that ‘humble beginnings’ is also a pr...

This article seeks to analyse and portray the mythologisation of sport venues in Israel through a close examination of the particular case study of Ussishkin basketball arena in Tel Aviv. Notwithstanding the current lack of Israeli mainstream recognition of sport places as a built cultural heritage, it is argued that the Ussishkin arena demonstrate...

Various voices assert that the sport-politics nexus that characterized international sport events during the Cold War era is irrelevant in the current age of globalization. This study examines the validity of this argument via a case study of Jewish-Israelis' fandom tendencies during the 2014 World Cup. A survey conducted during the World Cup games...

Neoclassical economic theories foretell that individuals exert the most effort, and consequently produce their best performances, when the net returns to effort are highest. We scanned through 33 NBA seasons and analyzed 1930 playoffs games in order to test this prediction. Analysis of win probabilities in games where one of the two teams faces eli...

Israeli football, maybe more than any other cultural phenomenon, has changed radically since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Over the past seven decades, Israeli football has evolved from an amateur hobby of a few “sports freaks” to a passion of the masses. The transformation into a major cultural phenomenon is the result of gener...

The availability of data feeds, the demand for news on mobile devices, and advances in algorithms are helping to make automated journalism more prevalent. Against the specific backdrop of sports journalism's content, means of production and consumption, the question the paper answers is whether the recent introduction of automatically produced cont...

Focusing on sport as an arena of struggle in the Israel/Palestine conflict, the current study traces, conceptually and historically, the way in which the Palestinian Authority (PA) in general, and Jibril Rajoub in particular, have shifted efforts towards the sporting arena in order to promote global awareness of the Palestinian case. In the current...

The outcome of the EU referendum 2016 and its significance have been widely debated in online forums across different countries and cultures. Examining media coverage and discussions of Brexit in Israel using online trend-tracking software, we found that Brexit and the referendum were mostly covered and discussed in Israel in the financial press, a...

The present study aims to illustrate the point of view of a variety of female sports journalists as they relate to the unique and defining experiences within their line of work; this in the hopes of identifying the key elements at play in the shaping of the practice of women in sports journalism and its impact on the coverage of women’s sports. 17...

Political environment is an important factor in news coverage, both in terms of the news items selected (the amount of coverage) and the tone of the coverage. Through an analysis of news coverage of Qatar in the Israeli press, the current study examines the impact of the political circumstances and the contextual cues in news stories on the framing...

This article explores the ways in which the medium of radio is currently being used on Israel’s various online platforms. It shows how via their internet presence, radio stations have begun broadcasting live online, o ering select segments of their programmes, and maintaining correspondence and dialogue with their listeners. Moreover, the tradition...

Conflicts today are very much battles of ideas. Alongside the military confrontations, an “Image War” is taking place. The goal of the current study was to examine the usage of the international sports arena as a public diplomacy tool, through which political actors try to promote their goals by attracting public attention to their claims. More spe...

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The impact of political events on media’s conflict coverage prism is widely established. To assess the role of mounting tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe in 2013–2014 on German media’s coverage prism of Muslim- related conflicts, this article compares coverage of the 2008 and 2014 Israeli military operations in Gaza by three major...

The aim of this study is to discuss the lack of women athletes and the almost complete absence of women in decision-making positions at any level of sport organisations in Israel. By using the Israeli social-historical setting, an attempt is made to focus on the conceptualisation of the National Project for Women and Sport (NPWS) as a gender equity...

Two experiments were conducted to examine framing effects in sport. In Study 1, a conceptual replication of Loftus and Palmer (1974), participants watched a hockey collision, with the hit described later in a written format as either a 'contact', 'bump' or 'smash.' This manipulation resulted in no differences in participants' report of how fast the...

Abstract Media, War & Conflict 1–20 © The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1750635216632793 mwc.sagepub.com MWC To contribute to analysis of the interplay between sport and politics, this study examines Jewish- Israeli attitudes towards the Iranian football team during the 2014 World Cu...

ביקורת על ספרה של שלומית גיא: ילדים טובים משחקים כדורגל

This article has three goals: to examine whether any changes occurred in leisure time exercise patterns in the adult Jewish Israeli population between 2007 and 2012; to identify the barriers that prevented adult Israelis from exercising and what changes if any occurred in the barriers; and to examine the relationship between frequency of exercise a...

The Internet, particularly social media, has enhanced civic movements? ability to communicate and organize their activities. This study addresses this issue in the realm of sports and examines fans? online interaction while analyzing different platforms Hapoel Tel Aviv FC fans use (websites, forums, Twitter, and Facebook), especially during their 2...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to analyses of the sport-politics nexus by identifying whether the demographics of Twitter followers of Al-Jazeera Sport in the USA (rebranded in 2014 as beIN USA) can be associated with a specific political orientation. Design/methodology/approach Based on selective exposure theory, which posits...

Over the years, terrorists have shot at the Sri Lankan cricket team, bombed the Boston Marathon, machine-gunned the Togo football team bus and taken hostages at the Olympics. Now, even more so, sport must be careful, for the filled stadium is the perfect target. Here, routinely, is found the largest collection of humankind at its happiest. To scare...

Abstract Qatar’s successful bid for hosting the 2022 soccer World Cup is regarded as one in a series of attempts to change Qatar’s image as a terror-sponsoring state. To understand the power of hosting megasport events to rebuild a country’s international image, the present study compares the coverage of Qatari sport affairs with concurrent terror-...

The current paper is looking into the way in which Qatar’s investment in sport, both directly and indirectly, is being perceived by the Israeli press. In order to accomplish the task set above, a content analysis of Qatar’s media coverage in the Israeli online press was conducted. Our analysis includes 1199 articles appearing in the mainstream onli...

בפראפרזה על אימרתו המפורסמת של מרק טווין, "הידיעות על מותי היו מוגזמות", ניכר כי ההספד שנישא על מותה של הטלוויזיה היה מעט מוקדם. אין חולק כי במהלך המחצית השנייה של המאה ה-20 גברה הפופולריות שלה, והיא הפכה ממכשיר שכוחו העיקרי במידע ובעיקר בידור, לכלי של סוציאליזציה מהמעלה הראשונה. פיתוחים טכנולוגיים מואצים בשליש האחרון של המאה ה-20, איימו, ועדיין מ...

To contribute to analyses of the sport-politics nexus, the study examines Jewish-Israeli attitudes toward the German soccer team and Germany. The analysis reveals that more Israelis root against the German soccer team than support it, despite the team’s impressive achievements. The analysis of attitudes toward Germany surprisingly reveals that the...

This paper explains soccer’s entrance into the Australian mainstream in consequence of the Australian Football Federation (FFA) exercising symbolic violence, a modus operandi with the goal of re-writing the game’s cultural history. The claim is that the FFA attempts to hide the game’s historic foundations of ethnic diversity, with a multitude of et...

The world is becoming largely interconnected. This notion has thought-provoking implications due to the fact that this interdependence affords terrorist organizations opportunities to perpetrate attacks. It is inevitable that an increased risk of terrorism, especially on the forefront of megasporting events, is on the rise due to the global publici...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the nature of the barriers facing women in terms of their participation in decision-making in Israeli sport, and to identify and evaluate some of the strategies and tactics adopted to overcome these barriers. This is done by making reference to a particular case study, the case of the process of establishing a...