Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today with a forum of combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and instructed his office to expand assistance for soldiers coping with the condition, according to a statement from his office.
The forum is led by Itzik Saidyan, an IDF veteran of the 2014 Operation Protective Edge conflict in Gaza, who shared with Netanyahu the group’s “complex daily struggles” and rehabilitation processes.
Saidyan drew national attention in 2021 when he self-immolated outside a Defense Ministry office for injured soldiers, in a protest that sparked a reckoning over Israel’s treatment of wounded veterans.
According to the statement, Netanyahu “expressed his support for the veterans” and directed the acting director-general of his office, Drorit Steinmetz, to “examine ways to further assist the combat veterans so they can fully realize their rights.”
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