Veterans

As Israel’s PTSD crisis deepens, new treatment offers hope for scarred IDF veterans

Combat veterans fight for recognition and care, while a new treatment emerges as a possible solution for PTSD.

PTSD illustration.
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 26, 2026 in Washington, DC.

US veterans disturbed by President Trump’s 'trivialization' of war

Police block an entrance road after a gunman opened fire at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, U.S., March 12, 2026, in a still image from video.

Old Dominion shooting victim identified as US Army veteran Lt. Col. Brandon Shah

MACCABI WORLD UNION CEO Roy Hessing (left) and Tikkun Olam Makers founder Gidi Grinstein pose after signing their organizations' collaboration agreement.

Maccabi, TOM team up for disabled IDF veterans


VETERANS: Proud progenitor

"Quietly, I asked myself, ‘Is this the right thing to do’? I made a decision to come, and there was no looking back,” Gorlin said.

RABBI DAVID Yoel Gorlin, his wife Maira, and their extended family in Israel.

Huge study explores genetics of PTSD

Suicide rates are higher among veterans suffering from PTSD, which is estimated to affect between 11% and 20% of those who served in the military.

An elderly woman suffers from PTSD. [illustrative]

He’s a Yankee Doodle Dandy

This July 4, we salute George Bader – one of the 550,000 American Jews who served in World War II.

SOLDIER GEORGE BADER, somewhere in France, September 25, 1944: ‘My thoughts are always with you, Love, George,’ he wrote.

New UK Mideast minister on first visit to Israel with British veterans

"The armed forces of Israel and the UK are the best of us and I salute you."


State Comptroller: Insufficient care given to disabled IDF veterans

Defense Ministry admits they've been struggling to recruit quality doctors for several years.

Developmentally disabled soldiers sworn into IDF

Veterans: Extraordinary brothers

These brothers are anything but ordinary: they were among Israel’s first lone soldier volunteers and original Zionists who have managed to keep their passion for the Jewish state alive for nearly

THE BROTHERS Levine: Harold (left) and Philip.

Remains of a Jewish serviceman killed in Pearl Harbor bombing identified

Pearl Harbor 311

ER doctor at Florida veterans hospital shot by double amputee shooter

Bon is a homeless veteran who spent a short time in the U.S. Army in the ‘70s.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker (L) talks with amputee Aaron Schoenfeld, a Marine veteran from Navarre, Florida, at a hearing by the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center March 6, 2007. Schoomaker's brother, M

To be a part of the IDF disabled veterans

“Dad, it’s me, I am injured but I am alive.”

An IDF soldier

Pedal to the metal – in Israel

From Odessa to Ashkelon.

‘MOSES,’ BY Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1513-1515, at San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome)