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Ora Paltiel

Ora Paltiel is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ora Paltiel rather than just read about it. In short: Ora Paltiel (Hebrew: אורה פלטיאל) is an epidemiologist and a professor in the Braun School of Public Health, where she was also director of the Master's in Public Health program from 2013 until 2016, and in the Department of Hematology. She has also served as Dean at the Braun School.

Key takeaways

Ora Paltiel belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Ora Paltiel to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Ora Paltiel from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Ora Paltiel (Hebrew: אורה פלטיאל) is an epidemiologist and a professor in the Braun School of Public Health, where she was also director of the Master's in Public Health program from 2013 until 2016, and in the Department of Hematology. She has also served as Dean at the Braun School.

Biography Of Romanian and Ukrainian heritage, Paltiel was born in Canada and emigrated to Israel as a child. Both of her parents were seeking post-graduate degrees. Her family returned and settled in Ottawa before Paltiel went to Toronto for a bachelor's degree in anthropology. That is when she met her future husband, Mark Clarfield. The family moved to Israel in 1992. Paltiel received her medical degree from the McGill University School of Medicine and a M.Sc.in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, also from McGill, in 1988. She trained in hematology, internal medicine and oncology.

Research Between 2010 and 2014, she studied 1631 Israelis and Palestinians in an effort to learn risk factors for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The study confirmed several risk factors including use of black hair dye, a first degree relative with blood cancer, and four to nine hours per week of sun exposure.

Honors and awards Paltiel received the Bonei Zion Prize in 2019 for Science and Medicine. At the time, she was director of the Center for Research in Clinical Epidemiology at the Hadassah Medical Center director of the Center for Research in Clinical Epidemiology at the Hadassah Medical Center.

Selected publications Omri Besor, Ora Paltiel, Orly Manor, Milka Donchin, Orly Rauch, Vered Kaufman-Shriqui, Associations between density and quality of health promotion programmes and built environment features across Jerusalem, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 31, Issue 6, December 2021, Pages 1190–1196, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab132 Human menopausal gonadotropin and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ora Paltiel

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ora Paltiel claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ora Paltiel before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ora Paltiel ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ora Paltiel

In research: Ora Paltiel appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ora Paltiel in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ora Paltiel is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 20th-century Israeli medical doctors, 20th-century Israeli women medical doctors, 21st-century Israeli medical doctors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ora Paltiel outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Ora Paltiel in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Ora Paltiel means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Ora Paltiel out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Ora Paltiel in simple terms?

Why does Ora Paltiel matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Ora Paltiel?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Ora Paltiel.