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GILA GREEN: Eye for human behavior

'Real-life elements beyond genetics': An interview with Gila Green

Rafael Birman hiding behind a shelter with his friends near Kibbutz Re'im, Israel, Oct. 7, 2023.

Nova Festival attack survivors struggle with lingering trauma and diminishing mental health care

By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE

Israeli women and children from Kibbutz Nir after being rescued from Hamas terrorists by the Israel Border Police, October 7, 2023.

Israel offers NIS 10 million to orgs. who will treat young October 7 survivors

THE ANU MUSEUM of the Jewish People invites the general public to the event, ‘We Are Israelis,’ as part of which the museum launches a new tour, ‘Between Dream and Fulfillment.’ Pictured is a photo on display by Leni Sonnenfeld from 1950.

A subdued Independence Day: How cities around Israel are marking the occasion

By NERIA BARR

Fireworks display.

The harmful physical and emotional effects of fireworks

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Filmmaker Rob Mor in Israel for his interview.

New documentary film on YouTube will explore Israeli grief post-October 7

By Darcie Grunblatt

SUPERNOVA MUSIC festival survivor Bar at a healing retreat organized by the nonprofit Tribe of Nova Foundation to help survivors of the festival with their rehabilitation.

The Tribe of Nova Foundation works to help festival survivors recover

New organization supports Israel's frontline workers post Oct. 7th

Trauma into resilience: New org. supports Israel's frontline workers post-Oct. 7

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israelis who's family members are held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza protest during a Finance committee meeting, in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 22, 2024.

Israel's mental health crisis is not looming, it's already here

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Family and friends of Israeli soldier St.-Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Zvika Lavi mourn at his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on December 12, 2023, Lavi succumbed to his wounds last night after being wounded fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Defense ministry: 7,209 wounded, 2,111 with emotional harm

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

SGT. GAYA ZUBERY, a paramedic in the 188th Armored Brigade who was shot and seriously wounded while treating wounded soldiers in Gaza, undergoes rehabilitation at Sheba Medical Center.

Charting a path forward for mental health care in the wake of war

By YOEL HAR-EVEN

The area of the Nova party where hundreds of Israelis were killed and kidnapped by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated to Israel, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, photo taken on October 12, 2023.

Nova massacre survivors who took MDMA show fewer PTSD symptoms, study finds

By DR. ITAY GAL

Sad teen (illustrative)

Trauma support requests surged in 2023, many for October 7 survivors and war victims

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Herzog Medical Center director-general Dr. Jacob 'Kobi' Haviv at the geriatric wards

From maternity wards to maturing adults: An in-depth look at Herzog Medical Center

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Four-legged friends provide support at Rambam Health Care Campus

Dogs can be trained to detect PTSD with their noses

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Elderly Israelis sit in a designated protected space in a senior citizens home in Jerusalem, June 2, 2009, as a siren is sounded during a nationwide civil defense drill simulating a rocket attack.

Impressive resilience seen among older Israelis amid war times despite dwindling resources

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

An IDF soldier sits on a beach in Tel Aviv

Understanding mechanism of PTSD could speed diagnosis, help repair and reverse

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Some of Israel’s foremost trauma experts at Jerusalem's Hebrew University are designing new clinical approaches and training therapists to deal with the unprecedented traumas of Oct. 7, 2023, and its aftermath.

Hebrew University launches mental health trauma center spurred by Oct. 7

By Elana Sztokman/JTA