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A man and a woman draped in an Israeli flag watch the release by the Hamas terror group of hostages Ofer Calderon and Yarden Bibas in the Gaza Strip, on a screen at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, on February 1, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)
One in five Israelis ‘still struggling to function’ since Oct. 7 – new study
By Diana Bletter
Study finds women have higher levels of severe impairment in daily functioning due to their mental health, with 32% of women, 18 to 35, reporting significant distress
Yehonatan Maatuf, left, who was injured in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza on April 11, 2025, about to train with Sagi Dovev at the House of Heroes in Or Yehuda on September 9, 2026. (Matan Siegel/Times of Israel)
Three years since Oct. 7
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After war put them on the ropes, a martial arts gym gives wounded vets a fighting chance
By Diana Bletter
Young Israelis ride an electric scooter in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
August 11, 2026, 4:43 pm
E-scooter riders 3 times more likely to suffer brain injury than motorcyclists – UK study
Researchers say users have an increased risk of organ trauma; women are more than twice as likely to suffer severe injuries, prompting calls for stricter rules in Israel
By Diana Bletter
Tending the sheep at the Lahav Farm. (Keshet Ben Muvchar)
May 28, 2026, 11:48 pm
Germinated by its founder’s trauma, growing farm network cultivates healing through work
Rimon Farms Association, which harnesses nature and agriculture to help PTSD sufferers and youth at risk, is now fundraising to seed two new programs to serve Gaza border area
By Sue Surkes
Israelis sit at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, April 4, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
May 19, 2026, 6:12 pm
New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces
Popular apps such as Ontopo for restaurant reservations and Easy business directory will add PTSD filters, with participating venues self-certifying
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Rescue teams help shocked residents in a targeted residential neighborhood in the southern city of Ashkelon on May 11, 2021, after rockets were fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
March 31, 2026, 2:19 pm
Chatbot aims to help rescuers defuse acute anxiety, right after traumatic events
Ben-Gurion University team hopes free trilingual AI application will be adopted widely in Israel, Diaspora, and Arabian Gulf
By Sue Surkes
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a missile fired from Lebanon toward Israel caused damage in Kiryat Shmona, March 24, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
March 29, 2026, 2:20 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 29 – Northerners feel grim amid war but firm on need to defeat Hezbollah
Reporters Diana Bletter and Sue Surkes discuss sense of isolation in Kiryat Shmona and Haifa, trauma help for Arab Israelis, and hospitals’ efforts to treat patients underground
By Jessica Steinberg, Sue Surkes and Diana Bletter
In this undated photo, Arab women from northern Israel take part in a resilience building activity run by Mashabim. (Mashabim)
March 25, 2026, 8:19 am
Facing violence on all fronts, Arab Israelis are unprecedentedly open to mental health help
After 18 months of expanded activity in Arabic-speaking towns, the Community Stress Prevention Center in northern Israel starts to see stigmas breaking down, uptick in calls
By Sue Surkes
People look at the damage after a missile fired toward Israel overnight struck the Bedouin town of Zarzir, in northern Israel, March 13, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
March 18, 2026, 7:36 pm
Arab Israelis experiencing higher distress levels in war than Jews — study
Survey undertaken during current Iran war shows Arabs feel greatest losses in economic stability, social connections, emotional resilience, faith and hope
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A man struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (LightField Studios/Shutterstock.com)
March 10, 2026, 10:28 am
Traumatized nation: Organizations step into breach left by overwhelmed mental health system
Post-October 7 initiatives sprang up like mushrooms after the rain. Now, not-for-profits are building coalitions, mapping who is providing what to whom, and developing standards
By Sue Surkes
IDF troops of the 36th Division operate in Gaza City in a handout photo issued on October 8, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 10, 2025, 6:45 pm
Computerized prevention program could lower PTSD to 1% of former combat troops
Tel Aviv University scientist says peer-reviewed research shows a fivefold reduction in symptoms among soldiers who participate in new protocol, 18 months on
By Diana Bletter
Dr. David Senesh, a clinical psychologist specialized in intergenerational trauma, is a former Yom Kippur War prisoner of war and the nephew of Zionist poet Hannah Senesh. (Courtesy)
October 27, 2025, 5:54 am
Raised in Hannah Senesh’s shadow, an ex-POW says Israel must finally face its demons
Leaving Israel for Berlin, David Senesh, a clinical psychologist dealing with intergenerational trauma, says hostages, and country, can only process and heal once cycle of crises ends
By Rossella Tercatin
Miriam Miedzinski-Ballin, founder of the Psychotrauma and Crisis Unit of United Hatzalah. (Courtesy)
October 19, 2025, 6:34 pm
Miriam Miedzinski-Ballin, trailblazer who made mental health part of first aid, dies at 38
The Houston-born mother of five founded United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit, is remembered for her ‘immense merit’ and concern for others during emergencies
By Diana Bletter
Members of GFIDF, an association assisting unmarried partners of fallen soldiers, meet for a community event in Herzliya, March 2024. (Courtesy: Yanai Alfasi)
September 5, 2025, 11:21 am
A support system grows for girlfriends of fallen troops, bereaved but overlooked
From therapy to memorials, GFIDF helps an expanding roster of grief-stricken but unwed partners of slain soldiers navigate anguish and find connection after losing loved ones
By Stav Levaton
Left: 'Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories,' co-edited by Olya Khaleelee and Halina Brunning (Courtesy); Right: People evacuating a building next to an apartment block hit by an Iranian missile, where several people were killed, in Beersheba, June 24, 2025. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
August 30, 2025, 12:10 pm
18 Jewish therapists co-wrote a book on the trauma of displacement. Then came Oct. 7
In ‘Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories,’ diverse clinicians discuss treating patients while juggling their own generational issues and the horror of ongoing war
By Rich Tenorio
Prof. Tal Dvir, Head of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, Head of the Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University, and Chief Scientist of the biotech company Matricelf. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
August 21, 2025, 1:43 pm
In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord
With Health Ministry okay, Tel Aviv University prof will perform surgery that will mark the first time pieces of spine are engineered from human cells and then transplanted
By Diana Bletter
IDF troops operate in northern Gaza, in a handout photo issued on May 17, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 19, 2025, 8:42 pm
Reservists being called up despite recognized mental wounds, including PTSD — report
Haaretz identifies 2 reservists with trauma diagnoses who died by suicide after being called up; report blasts ‘Kafkaesque’ lack of coordination between Defense Ministry and IDF
By ToI Staff
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