November 12, 2014
3:23 pm

Doctors at the Wolfson Medical Center perform open heart surgery in Holon, Israel, September 12, 2011. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Once inside Israel’s hospitals, the ‘terrorist’ becomes the ‘patient’

It’s an acquired skill, but Israeli trauma physicians treating the new wave of Palestinian terrorists somehow manage to leave their emotions at the door

By Renee Ghert-Zand

September 5, 2014
8:14 pm

A medical marijuana plant (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Marijuana could keep PTSD in check, study suggests

Israeli researchers say rats given a man-made version of the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana were immune to ‘trauma reminders’

By Andrew Tobin

August 6, 2014
6:31 pm

Ido Ozeri, one of the owners of Archies bar and restaurant in Ashkelon, passes out shots courtesy of a bar tab from American-Israeli Yigal Rechtman on Tuesday, the first night of the ceasefire. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

L’Chaim to a ceasefire

An outing in Ashkelon on the first night of quiet, with a bar tab picked up by an American-Israeli who won’t let terror win

By Melanie Lidman

August 4, 2014
7:19 am

Young Israeli women take cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets fired from Gaza, November 21, 2012. (photo credit: Edi Israel/FLASH90)

Israeli teens’ mental health worsens when Arab-Israeli conflict does

Long conflict — especially drawn out periods of terrorism — wears on teen psyche, 14-year study shows

By Andrew Tobin

August 3, 2014
10:23 am

Sister of the late Golani soldier, Moshe Malko, is held by other family relatives as she cries over the fresh grave of her brother, at the Har Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 21, 2014. Staff Sgt. Moshe Malko, 20, from Jerusalem, was killed the before during combat in the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

How do you bandage the wounds you can’t see?

The entire population of Israel is feeling anxiety, experts say, but a small and growing number will have lasting trauma

By Debra Kamin

May 2, 2014
8:51 am

A Japanese child with an IsraAID volunteer (photo credit: Courtesy of IsraAID)

The art of teaching Japan to speak

3 years after a massive earthquake and tsunami, Israeli therapists and aid workers help still- traumatized survivors examine their wounds

By Debra Kamin

December 29, 2013
10:19 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem on December 08, 2013. (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/FLASH90)

PM seeks budget boost for Gaza periphery

Netanyahu to request cabinet approval for NIS 166 million ($48m.) to foster economy and prop up local governments

By Stuart Winer

April 23, 2013
10:48 am

It’s not safe here, we gotta’ go back to Israel

Boston bombs and fire sirens in the U.S. strike a traumatic chord in children transplanted from Beer Sheba

By Zimra Vigoda

April 23, 2013
2:57 am

Ambulances at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

What Boston hospitals learned from Israel

Israeli doctors have developed trauma expertise through improvisation and bitter experience, and shared that knowledge widely

By Ben Sales

Topic: trauma