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Immersed in blood and identifying every extreme cruelty, yet they go home. ZAKA personnel clear bodies during the war.

In the wake of October 7 massacre, ZAKA volunteers grapple with trauma

By Tzvi Hassid
 Gaza hostage families protest on Ayalon highway on January 18, 2024

Brother of hostage: ‘I attempted suicide, you should have called me!’

 Women pray before a pro-Palestinian rally in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia October 15, 2023.

Australian conference cancels Israeli doctor's lecture after boycott calls

 Dr. Noam Rudich, with dog.

War deprives women and youth of sufficient psychological therapists

 A WOMAN holds a placard accusing Israel of committing genocide as she attends a vigil for US Airman Aaron Bushnell in New York, this week.

Glorifying martyrdom won't free Palestine

 Students at Northwestern University held a Pink Day event in February 2024 to raise awareness of breast and ovarian cancer.

Children of cancer patients find support through young-adult buddy system

By ERIC BERGER/JTA
 A doctor is seen with a patient (illustartive)

More Israeli health professionals licensed in 2023 but below OECD average

 Alon Leibovich, managing director at Intel Ignite

Startup survival tips from Intel Ignite Tel Aviv's managing director

 Israeli soldiers operate near the northern border with Lebanon, on February 21, 2024

IDF, Hamas exchange fire on Lebanon border; IDF to open new PTSD center

 NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stands at the government's table in the Knesset plenum. His announcement on easing the threshold conditoins ofr license seekers was a reckless move that takes advantage of the public's fear, the writer argues.

Lax gun distribution is a danger to those with mental illness

By YUVAL YAELI SLONIM
 A man identified as US Air Force soldier Aaron Bushnell, 25, moments before setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC.

Praise of Bushnell's self-immolation puts US closer to suicide bombings

 Israeli children in the city of Sderot holding a translated version of the book "Inner Space: My resilience workbook."

84% of Israeli children in distress from Gaza war. A new initiative gives them emotional support

People crying and hugging with the Israeli flag in the background

Governmental effort to charge fee for psychiatric emergency room visits causes outrage

The Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center in Israel's capital of Jerusalem

Protests spark as gov't plans psychiatric hospital emergency room fees