PTSD

Understanding the tribe: Safeheart org. helps Nova survivors recover using psychedelic treatment

Founded in the hours after Oct. 7, SafeHeart draws on expertise in trauma and psychedelic harm reduction to help Nova survivors rebuild their lives – through care rooted in the community itself.

ILLUSTRATIVE: FOR SOME, the trauma was compounded by mind-altering substances.
Israelis have continued to work, study, and raise families, even as reminders of three years of war remain part of the landscape of everyday life.PremiumPremium

'We're just in survival mode': Three years on, Israelis find a new normal after Oct. 7

A partially torn poster of a hostage kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is seen at a public plaza in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Farewell from the Report: reflecting on three years of upheaval - from the editor

A panel at the "Managing the Balance" conference exploring the connections between PTSD and substance use, September 8, 2026.

Music festival survivors, victims' relatives discuss PTSD, substance abuse, mental health effects


A Fighter for Israel’s Soldiers

The question is clear, “This isn’t a fight over budgets. It’s a fight over the lives of the people who protected all of us.”

Shifra Shahar, CEO of the nonprofit  A Warm Home for Every Soldier

Voices of October 7: Yuval Haran spoke to photojournalist Chen Schimmel

"When there is nothing, both darkness and light can exist, and the choice of which one to believe is ours."

Yuval lights the Hanukkah menorah, praying for a miracle: the return of Tal, his brother-in-law, the final family member still held captive

Israeli nonprofit helps reservist wives navigate war's toll on the home

He went to the front. She became the commander of the house. Inside the unseen war fought by Israel’s reservists’ wives.

The first wives pilot healing retreat. For many of these women, it was their first safe space to talk honestly about their feelings and the challenges they face.

Hospital discharge should not be the finish line: Doctors must help patients reintegrate - opinion

A critical, defined part of a medical team's job must be managing the patient's transition to the community.

 An illustrative image of a nurse writing a prescription.

Defense Ministry treating 82,400 wounded soldiers and veterans, up 22,000 since start of war

Out of the new additions, 58% are being treated for mental health concerns.

A military helicopter evacuating wounded IDF soldiers from the Gaza Strip to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, May 15, 2024; illustrative.

Sleepless nation: Dreams reveal Israelis' ongoing struggle with October 7 trauma - study

Using a qualitative, phenomenological approach, the researchers analyzed 203 dream narratives collected in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack and the Israel–Hamas war that followed.

What do Israelis dream about post October 7?

Digital attention exercises reduce soldiers’ PTSD risk, study shows

In two years of war, more than 3,700 Israeli soldiers have been diagnosed with PTSD, while another 9,000 have applied for recognition.

Soldiers take a break at the border with Gaza. The battle against PTSD is a moral and national imperative.

Female IDF soldiers' trauma overlooked despite historic mobilization: 'We need to be seen'

Even though this war saw the largest mobilization of women since Israel’s creation, the emotional impact on female soldiers is disturbingly absent from the narrative.

After months of serving in Lebanon and Gaza, combat medic Mika Oz said she began suffering hypervigilance and irritability.

Israel’s trauma conference reveals hope amid deep emotional wounds - opinion

A nation in pain finds strength as professionals and volunteers rally to heal the wounded soul.

Susan Cohen and Dr. Nachum Goldwasser were organizers of the Trauma, Resilience, and Unity conference.

Invisible costs of trauma and post-trauma: The economic plight Israel faces - opinion

National trauma is not a private matter; it spills into every sphere: our relationships, classrooms, clinics, and even the roads, and all of this carries a significant economic cost.

TRAFFIC IS HEAVY on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv earlier this month. 2024 ended with 439 road fatalities, an unusual jump in a year with less traffic, the writer notes.