Publications

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2026). The Community Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disabled Act: Entrepreneurship, leadership and seizing opportunities in policymaking. Bitachon Sotziali (Social Security), 127, 1-31 [Hebrew].

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., Haworth, S., & Saar-Heiman, Y. (2026). Participatory research with fathers: A conceptual model. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2025.2590503

Halpern, A., Urban-Stahl, U., Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., & Mizrahi, R. (2025). Fathers in the eyes of family welfare services social workers in Germany and Israel: Feminism, ideals and disappointments. International Social Work, 68(3), 461-475. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728241309480

Meil, G., Romero-Balsas, P., Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., Escobedo, A., Ivanova, D., Moss, P., Reimer, T., Mauerer, G., & Dörfler-Bolt, S. (2025). Literature review on comparative studies on leave policies and their terminology use (pp. 1-66). OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wkuam

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., Halpern, A., Mizrahi, R., & Salamy, Z. A. (2024). Single Moms, absent Dads: Neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families. European Journal of Social Work, 27(1), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2222927

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2023). Family practice with fathers, social care, and capabilities. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 15(4), 748-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12528

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., Halpern, A., Mizrahi, R., & Atalla, Z. (2023). “Fathers are very important, but they aren’t our contact persons”: The primary contact person assumption and the absence of fathers in social work interventions. Families in Society, 104(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894221145751

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2014-2023). Israel country note. In A. Koslowski, S. Blum, I. Dobrotić, & G. Kaufman (Eds.), International review of leave policies and research.

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., Halpern, A., Mizrahi, R. (2022) A Systemic perspective on father engagement with child- and family-related social work interventions in Israel. In: A. Tarrant, L. Ladlow and L. Way (Eds). Fathers and Their Welfare. Policy Press

Halpern, A., Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N, and Mizrahi, R. (2022). Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy. Families, Relationships and Societies, 11 (4), 499–516. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16297306778771

Strier, R. and Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2021), Intersectionality and fatherhood: Theorizing non-hegemonic fatherhoods. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 13: 334 346. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12412

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., Mizrahi, R. Halpern, A. (2020). The Mother-Based Intervention: Policy, Social Work, and the Absence of Fathers in the Social Services in Israel, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society,    https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa004

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019). In the name of the mother: The status of fathers in Israeli social policy, as seen through parental leave and work hour regulation. Hevra Ve’Revaha [Hebrew]

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., & Aviram, U. (2019). The rehabilitation of the mentally disabled in the community act in Israel: Entrepreneurship, leadership, and capitalizing on opportunities in policy making. International journal of law and psychiatry, 66, 101457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101457

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., and Berkovitch, A. (2019). A Leave from Fatherhood: Perceptions of Fatherhood and Their Expressions in Court Rulings on Parental Leave for Fathers. Bar Ilan Law Review.

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019) Israel: Leave policy, familialism and the neoliberal welfare state. In: Moss, P., Duvander, A. and Koslowski, A. (Eds): Parental Leave and Beyond: Recent Developments, Current Issues, Future Directions. Bristol: Policy Press

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019). Enemies, Allies or Citizens? The Subject Positions of Men in the Making of Parental Leave for Fathers in Israel. Families, Relationships and Societies. DOI  https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318X15447903073633

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2018). In the name of the mother: The status of fathers in Israeli social policy, as seen through parental leave and work hour regulation. Hevra Ve’Revaha, 38 (2), 281-310

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N & Aviram, U. (2017). The Community Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disabled Act: Entrepreneurship, leadership and seizing opportunities in policymaking. Bitachon Soczialy. 101. Pp 141-167. [Hebrew]

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2017). Fathers as Frauds – the Construction of Masculinity as Welfare Fraud in Parental Leave in Israel. Journal of Men and Masculinities. Advance Online Publication. DOI 10.1177/1097184X17696175

Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2013) “Fathers at a crossroads: The combined effect of organizational and cultural factors on the making of gender-related policy“. Social Politics 20(3): 407-429.

Perez, N. (2010). “The Abandoning of Fathers as Surveillance of Families: Fathers in the Israeli Legislative Discourse“. In Katz, H and Tzfadia, E (eds.), Abandoning State – Surveillancing  State” : Social Policy in Israel, 1985-2008. Tel-Aviv: Resling [Hebrew]