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Asher Ben-Arieh, is the Haruv Chair for the study of Child Maltreatment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Prof. of Social Work. Prof. Ben-Arieh is also the director of the Haruv Institute in Jerusalem. He served for 20 years as the associate director of Israel’s National Council for the Child. Since 1990 and until 2011 he has been the founding editor-in-chief of the annual "State of the Child in Israel".

Asher has published extensively on children’s well-being, child naltreatment and indicators of children well being. Prof. Ben-Arieh is the founding editor-in-chief of the Child Indicators Research journal (CIR) and the Child Well Being: Indicators and research book series.

Prof. Ben-Arieh is one of the leading international experts on social indicators, particularly as they relate to child well-being. He initiated and coordinated the International Project "Measuring and Monitoring Children Well-Being", was among the founding members of the International Society for Children Indicators (ISCI) and elected to be its first co-chair. Currently, Prof. Ben-Arieh is one of the PI’s of the multi-national, multi-million International Study of Children’s Well-being (ISCWeB) research project.


Asher was born in Jerusalem he is married and has three children.

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, IL

2000-07-01 to present (The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare)
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: Jerusalem, IL

1995-10-01 to 1999-07-01 | PhD (Paul Baerwald School of Social Work)
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL

1989-10-01 to 1993-09-30 | MA (Paul Baerwald School of Social Work)
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Asher Ben-Arieh

Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL

1986-10-01 to 1989-09-30 | BA (Paul Baerwald School of Social Work)
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INternational Society for Child Indicators (ISCI): Jerusalem, IL

2004-01-01 to present | co-chair
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Works (1)

Satisfaction with the Neighborhood of Israeli and Chilean Children and its Effects on their Subjective Well-being

Child Indicators Research
2023-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ana Loreto Ditzel; Yuli Ketain Meiri; Ferran Casas; Asher Ben-Arieh; Javier Torres-Vallejos
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