She received her Ph.D from the Department of Education in Technology and Science at the Technion in Haifa. Dr. Abed has been teaching at the only non-selective school in Nazareth, Al-Galil high school, for the last 23 years. Results talk for themselves. Dr. Abed’s students are among the top decile in terms of achievement in matriculation examination set by the government and taken at the end of the high school.