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Aaron Antonovsky developed the salutogenic model during his years of work in the Israeli medical school at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, located in southern Israel, where he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Health. He left just a few researchers in his wake who continued in his path and paved the way for new research adapted to the diverse “social laboratory” that is the State of Israel. Today his salutogenic paradigm is widely spread over the world and is influential in Israel both in the area of research and in health and educational public policies. The central salutogenesis work of Israeli researchers has been published in English to make it accessible to the international community who do not read Hebrew. Yet, there is a Hebrew salutogenesis literatureHebrew salutogenesis literature with a diversity of theoretical and empirical applications of the salutogenic model, embedded in the Israeli context and with the unique characteristics of this context. In this review, we endeavor to encompass all of the work and most of the publications in Hebrew that have used Antonovsky’s salutogenic model as a framework. We present the main directions of these studies and emphasize the unique characteristics of the research conducted in Israel. In order to encompass the full extent of the research conducted in Israel, three databases of publications in

Hebrew have been reviewed: The National Library of Israel, The National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, and The Haifa Key for Articles in Hebrew. From 1983 to 2014, there were 175 titles found that focus on the sense of coherence and the salutogenic model. Of those, 105 were …