[Do Israeli adolescents know what they are drinking?]

We assessed knowledge of the strength of 7 different types of alcoholic beverages among 1052 high school students from kibbutzim and development towns in eastern Upper Galilee and the northern Golan Heights (northeastern edge of Israel). Only 0.85% of subjects reported correct alcohol content of all 7 types. There was a trend toward more accurate estimates of the alcohol content of distilled spirits and less accurate estimates for light beer. The estimates of girls were less correct than those of boys, and youth from kibbutzim were more correct in their answers than those from development towns.