Israel joined the SHARE framework in 2004, being the first country in the Middle East to initiate a systematic study of its aging population.
SHARE-Israel is coordinated by the Israel Gerontological Data Center (IGDC)[2], at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
SHARE-Israel is directed by Prof. Howard Litwin, with assistance from a multidisciplinary team of expert consultants from the United States, Europe and Israel.
[1] [2] In addition, the Israeli questionnaire includes two domains not yet addressed in SHARE: [3] In order to obtain a representative sample of Israelis aged 50 or over, Israel's population was divided into three sections: Executed in Israel in 2005–2006, the first wave encompassed 2,598 respondents residing in 1,771 households.
The Israel Gerontological Data Center holds an up-to-date list of all publications based on SHARE-Israel results.