Emotional Resilience

Tania Friedlander on leadership under pressure and moving forward in an unstable world

“People already fluent in resilience deserve leaders who understand it too, not only as survival, but as strategy.”
Haim Taib, President, Taib Family Foundation

Taib prize for national resilience unveiled: Honoring those strengthening Israel from within

Hadas Levy is the first Israeli woman to give birth to a baby whose father was killed in the war against Hamas using posthumous sperm removal.

Posthumous parenthood: After loss of loved ones, Israeli widows choose to bring new life

Oran Almog and Etgarim CEO Nir HaCohen.

Where disability meets determination


Can you forgive your computer, smartphone, or app when it breaks down?

a new study by two Israeli researchers found people can apply mechanisms of forgiveness toward technology, similar to the way we do with other people.

‘WE WANTED TO explore whether feelings like disappointment or anger toward technology can give way to forgiveness, allowing people to keep using it without resentment’

“Israel is Only at the Beginning of an Emotional Tsunami”

Against a growing mental health crisis, Life’s Door reports surge in demand for hope workshops

Prof. Ben Corn, founder of The Institute for the Study of Hope, at a Hope Seminar

Israel’s northern border: Resilience and community-building - opinion

This spirit, not victimhood, that ensures the Jewish people will endure, rebuild, and thrive in their homeland – again and again

 Smoke billows over northern Israel after rockets were fired from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, by Israel's border with Lebanon, May 17, 2024.

October 7 shattered our sense of safety but not our capacity for resilience - opinion

Resilience is not about snapping back to what was before but about taking pain and integrating it into a story that creates strength.

 View of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, January 16, 2025.

25 ViZionaries: Noa Cochva - No. 19

Her advocacy has reached millions, inspiring others to speak up

Noa Cochva

Social media fuels anxiety and weakens resilience - opinion

Reliance on social media for news is associated with higher anxiety and lower perceptions of national resilience among Israelis.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

The war isn’t over and the real battle has just begun - opinion

Since October 7, Israelis have lived with unrelenting trauma, and the country is in the midst of a mental health state of emergency.

VISITORS PONDER the scene of the Nova massacre. IDF soldier Daniel Edri burned himself alive after he told his mother that he could still smell and envision the dead bodies he had found on October 7 at the Nova site.

Sderot’s quiet revolution: Growth against all odds - opinion

From Rockets to Renewal: How Sderot’s Residents Are Returning Home, Growing the City, Investing in Industry and Education, and Defining Their Future Amid Ongoing Security Challenges.

Alon Davidi, Mayor of Sderot

Mental health is vital for Israeli national security - opinion

By 2024, patients with depression and anxiety accounted for a quarter of all visits to family doctors.

 People take shelter in an underground parking lot in Tel Aviv, during ongoing missile attacks from Iran, June 24, 2025.

Living in Israel's war two years on: Moving forward on the moral high road - comment

Looking back now, it’s hard to imagine life before October 7.

 An Israeli soldier with a prayer shawl seen during a morning prayer near his tank near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 25, 2023