The first project was a pioneer research project with people who suffer from mental illness at the Abarbanel Hospital in Bat Yam, Israel. The findings were published in the Israel Journal of Psychiatry in 1999. The aim of the research was to determine whether or not the hand features can reveal psychiatric diseases.  It was based on the fact that in the past, certain hand features had been recognized as being helpful in diagnosing physical and mental illnesses.

In my second research project I studied the hands of one hundred people from Abarbanel Hospital, half of whom were hospitalized schizophrenics and the other half a random sample of healthy staff people.  The results appear in my book in Hebrew: The Hand as Mirror of the Soul. The distinct statistical results of both research projects show that, according to defined parameters, chirology can help in identifying serious mental and emotional problems.

One of the most important problems was to identify suicidal tendencies through diagnostic chirology. In fact, it was this quest that propelled me to undertake these research projects. In my book I also relate to very important findings regarding the matter of suicide prediction.

For my third research project I studied the hands of men and women from the Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) Jewish community. Much to my surprise, certain features in the hands of this population appeared more frequently than in other groups in Israel. I did a statistical analysis with seven parameters among eighty-two people in two different groups: Ultra-Orthodox and secular. Most of the parameters had to do with the individual’s relationship to his or her referential group. I found interesting distinct statistical differences between the groups and I learned that a belief system, education and way of life among the Ultra-Orthodox are expressed on a physical level in their hands. These findings have the potential to create greater understanding between these two Jewish groups that live in Israel.