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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

mental illness

Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki stands next to the fire-damaged Las Olas Jewish Center on March 18, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP Photo/Terry Spencer)
March 19, 2024, 12:52 pm
Suspect charged with arson, but not hate crime, over Florida Chabad center blaze
No injuries reported, but parts of building badly damaged; congregants say homeless man arrested for attack should face hate crime rap
By Andrew Lapin
Interacting with puppies at Beit Daniella, west of Jerusalem. (Courtesy, Beit Daniella)
November 13, 2023, 2:29 pm
Troubled teens cut off from nature rehab over lack of bomb shelter
Youngsters attending Beit Daniella, near Jerusalem, are forced to meet in a school, far from the horses, dogs, and green hills that are helping them heal
By Sue Surkes
Staff of the new Hofim Center for youth in psychiatric crisis at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. (Miri Gattenyo/Ichilov Hospital)
August 14, 2023, 5:34 pm
Teen mental health crisis center opens at Ichilov Medical Center
In Tel Aviv, Hofim Center’s short-term, intense therapeutic model aims to address major increase in depression, anxiety, OCD and other disorders seen in Israeli youth post-COVID
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, April 19, 2023. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
August 1, 2023, 10:34 pm
Jury in Pittsburgh antisemitic massacre asks to see gunman’s weapons
Unusual request signals jury is close to deciding whether to give Robert Bowers death penalty for worst antisemitic attack in US history
By Ron Kampeas
A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, April 19, 2023. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
July 25, 2023, 10:26 pm
Defense wants to exhume body of Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s father
Attorneys argue that Robert Bowers suffers from mental illness like father who died by suicide in 1979, note prosecutors casting doubt on paternity to prove need to dig up corpse
By AP
Jonathan Rosen (Tali Rosen)
July 14, 2023, 6:35 pm
Author chronicles a friend’s descent into madness, and society’s failure to save him
In ‘The Best Minds,’ Jonathan Rosen examines how shifts in perception of mental illness and its treatment contributed to schizophrenic man killing his fiancée in a psychotic rage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A screenshot from the TikTok video in which a mentally disabled ultra-Orthodox man was harassed by Palestinian teenagers in Jerusalem, July 7, 2023. (Israel Police Spokesperson)
July 7, 2023, 1:34 pm
8 Palestinians arrested for livestreaming harassment of mentally ill Haredi man
In video shared on TikTok, group of teens and young adults cursed and laughed at ultra-Orthodox man at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Children at sunset (Vitold Muratov, via Wikimedia Commons)
March 30, 2023, 12:17 pm
Study points to coding DNA variants as cause for childhood onset schizophrenia
Israeli research finds that some children with this rare mental illness carry genetic mutations previously found in people with language, learning, and developmental challenges
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A police car at the scene of a disturbance complaint in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on March 10, 2023. (Israel Police)
March 10, 2023, 5:00 pm
Officer seriously wounded after being stabbed by mentally ill man in Jerusalem
Cops respond to disturbance complaint about man threatening to kill himself in Ramot neighborhood, fail to calm him down
By ToI Staff
Gila Hammer, center, with mother Gabi on the left and father Shalom on the right (courtesy of Shalom Hammer)
February 20, 2023, 2:37 am
Anguished by loss of daughter, a rabbi brings suicide prevention out of the shadows
After Gila, 18, took her own life following an attack, Shalom Hammer began a push for more awareness; on Tuesday in the Knesset he will suggest steps to prevent similar tragedies
By Nathan Jeffay
Israeli human rights activists protest calling for the release of Anhar al-Deek, 25, at the entrance to Damon prison, northern Israel, on August 29, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)
September 3, 2021, 1:33 pm
Israeli military court frees pregnant Palestinian security prisoner on bail
Anhar al-Deek, 25, was arrested following an alleged stabbing attack in March; she would have been first security prisoner to give birth while detained since 2008
By Aaron Boxerman
Israeli human rights activists protest calling for the release of Anhar al-Deek, 25, at the entrance to Damon prison, northern Israel, on August 29, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)
August 31, 2021, 6:42 am
Alleged Palestinian stabber to give birth in prison while awaiting trial
Anhar al-Deek, 25, was arrested following an attack in March; she will reportedly be the first Palestinian security prisoner to give birth while imprisoned by Israel since 2008
By Aaron Boxerman
Munir Anabtawi with his sister. (Mossawa Center)
April 26, 2021, 7:02 pm
Internal probe said to exonerate officer who killed mentally ill knifeman
Police Internal Investigations Department finds cop acted in self-defense when he fired multiple shots at Munir Anabtawi after being called to scene by distressed parents
By ToI Staff
Law enforcement investigate the scene after a vehicle charged a barricade at the U.S. Capitol on April 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
April 4, 2021, 3:59 am
US official: Capitol car-ramming suspect suffered from delusions, paranoia
Investigators believe deadly attack was an isolated incident from a disturbed young man, who also had suicidal thoughts
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Eric Tucker and NOMAAN MERCHANT
Security forces inspect the scene where a man was shot to death by a police officer after the man attempted to stab him, in Haifa, March 29, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)
March 30, 2021, 7:41 pm
Cops close ranks around officer who killed mentally ill knifeman in Haifa
Public security minister offers condolences but says officer ‘acted as expected’; deceased man’s mother tried to call ambulance, not police, according to family
By ToI Staff
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