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Filmmaker Rob Mor in Israel for his interview.

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

 CHILDREN PLAY in a pre-school group set up inside a bomb shelter, in the center of the country, in November. Our children have lost their innocence, and have had to grapple with concepts that most adults can barely understand, the writer laments.

Where is the concern of the children of Israel with post-Oct. 7 trauma?

By MEIRA LERNER
 HENRIETTA SZOLD, founder of Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization of America, speaks at the graduation of Hadassah Nursing School class of 1941. Judith Steiner-Freud is seated 4th from R, first row.

Holocaust survivors: When the abused become healers

 "There is a fear of serving in office after what happened on October 7." Observation in action

'Mom, I can no longer be in the army': Female IDF soldiers reveal hellish recruitment process

By EREZ HAREL
Netanyahu meets holocaust survivors, members of the "Yad Ezer Lachaver"

How did starving as youngsters during the Holocaust affect survivors and their descendants?

 IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023.

IDF forms committee to honor hostages and civilians in combat

 Stress (illustrative).

Marriage-induced insanity: Coping with the damages of a non-nurturing spouse

By MIRIAM ADAHAN
 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

Many Israeli healthcare professionals who have been treating trauma are themselves traumatized

 ‘DOR BEACH,’ 180x120.

Jerusalem art exhibit captures women's trials, tribulations, trauma in photos

Sad teen (illustrative)

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

People crying and hugging with the Israeli flag in the background

ERAN: Volume of calls from traumatized Israelis increased drastically since Oct. 7

 Four-legged friends provide support at Rambam Health Care Campus

Dogs can be trained to detect PTSD with their noses

An IDF soldier sits on a beach in Tel Aviv

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

 RESIDENTS OF Kibbutz Nir Am were relocated to Herod’s Hotel in Tel Aviv after being evacuated following the October 7 massacre.

Israel's North, South evacuees have been forgotten amid Gaza war

By ZEHAVIT GROSS
 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
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
 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