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Zahi Gad and his son Ben receiving the news that their friends were slain.

Docaviv films show life after October 7

By HANNAH BROWN

THE WRITER speaks at a music festival in memory of Amir Lavie, killed on October 7 while fighting Hamas terrorists who raided a military base near Gaza.

Survival mode: Israel has no time to process Oct. 7 trauma

By Danny Brom

‘IF, IN more normal times, there was an existing shortage of qualified therapists, in the current war this shortage has taken on huge significance,’ says the writer.

Israel must develop a new protocol to treat survivors of October 7

By Eran Zimrin

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

Star of David and yizkor candle.

When Jewish holidays can seem like too much, and meaning-making too soon

By RABBI SHIRA KOCH EPSTEIN/JTA

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

Filmmaker Rob Mor in Israel for his interview.

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

By Darcie Grunblatt

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

By BARBARA SOFER

"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?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

By JPOST EDITORIAL

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

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH