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Khawla Zoabi1 \* and Iddo Gal2

1 Department of Education, The Arab Academic College for Education, Haifa, Israel

2 Department of Human Services, University of Haifa, Israel

\*Address all correspondence to: khawla\_zoabi2011@hotmail.com

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