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This study aimed to write a unit in security education of the Islamic Education Curriculum for the 11th class students, its effects on the students' understanding and on their attitudes towards it. The importance of this study is that it may help those who are responsible of planning and preparing new Palestinian curriculum. The study has analyzed a sample of the Islamic Education Book for Secondary Stage. The Researcher followed the experimental approach for writing a unit in security education of the Islamic Education Curriculum for the 11th class students and its effects on the students' understanding and on their attitudes towards it. The society of the study consists of the 11th class students in the Middle Province in the school year 2012/2013. The total of the students were 4730, (2013 boys and 2717 girls). The study sample consisted of 68 boys and girls from the 11th class at Al Manfalooty Secondary School for Boys and Shuhadaa Al Magazi Secondary School for Girls, 2012/ 2013 school year. There were four 11th classes in each school. Two classes were chosen at random, one as an experimental class while the other was the control one. They studied the same unit. The findings of the study showed statistical differences between students' average and the expected average. The differences were for the benefit of the arithmetic average. This means that the students' attitudes are more than 70% which represents the expected average. There are no statistical differences between boys and girls. There are statistical differences of marks average between the two classes, the experimental class and the control one. The study has several recommendations: 1) The necessity of enriching the Islamic Education Curriculum with several educational relevant security values such as: national works, patriotism, defending the country and its establishments, and being proud of its accomplishments. 2) Social solidarity, security and safety. 3) The school books should be subject to revision and development continuously in accordance with the political, sociological, and educational changes, concentrating on educational security values in all different studied subjects. (Author's abstract)