Trauma

Israel stands strong three years on: National pain, trauma and resilience after Oct. 7 - opinion

On October 7 and every day, we honor and remember every single person brutally murdered, and we embrace and cherish the thousands of wounded people in Israel.

A memorial ceremony at the Nova festival marking two years since the October 7 massacre when Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, murdering more than 1200 people. October 07, 2025.
ILLUSTRATIVE: FOR SOME, the trauma was compounded by mind-altering substances.

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

Three years later Eli Beer stands in the memorial field of the Nova Festival.

How will we remember October 7?

The Cula - Communal Culinary initiative.

Cula uses food and community to help people rebuild their lives


Israel Basketball Association launches 'Back in the Game' initiative for veterans with PTSD

The initiative was created in response to requests from members of the Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization, who said basketball had become an important outlet in helping them cope with trauma.

PARTICIPANTS IN the new ‘Back in the Game’ initiative compete during a special tournament launch event for IDF veterans coping with PTSD, held last Friday in Israel.

Australia warns antisemitism was left unchecked, as Israel weighs wartime trauma recognition

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Shifra Jacobs—the top stories, clear and concise. 

Messages are written on stones laid to honour the families and victims of a deadly mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025, in Sydney, Australia, February 9, 2026.

How to speak about the hard truth of child abuse

Acknowledging abuse within our closest circles is excruciating, but silence is an absolute betrayal. Our children’s futures depend on our willingness to shatter the silence.

Sad, child and crying on floor in home with mental health, abuse or anxiety from trauma.

When humanity meets the sea: Surfing as a source of solace from trauma

Surf Therapy has become a significant tool in coping with trauma and other mental health challenges. The experience accumulated in Israel enables us to provide innovative tools to the world.

Teenagers arrive tense, angry, lonely, distrustful, and completely closed off, and then have their emotional state change through their encounter with the waves.

The miracle that shaped Israel Prize winner Avi Rivkind’s life and career - opinion

How one trauma surgeon’s split-second decision changed the course of a young soldier’s life.

AVIYA, SHIMON, holding his sister’s grandson, and Aviya’s daughter Tahel.

“The sea saved my life. Now we use it to save others”

Inside Israel’s surf-therapy organization

HaGal Sheli session. Waves as opportunities

A time for healing: Can Israel mend its deep internal rift? - opinion

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap; a time to kill, a time to heal. – Ecclesiastes

NAFTALI BENNETT visits Sgt. Yona Brief, wounded in Kfar Aza on Oct. 7. After 417 days of hospitalization, Brief succumbed to his injuries.

Emunah’s Quiet Heroes

Emunah children’s homes care for hundreds of children who have histories of trauma, abuse and instability.

A volunteer and 2 children from an Emunah Children's Home

Western collective Stockholm Syndrome: Empathizing with those who threaten it - opinion

What happened in Stockholm over six days, the West has been doing, collectively, gradually, and largely without acknowledgement for the better part of three decades.

 People take part in a 'Stop Bombing Iran' protest organized by Stop the War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in London, Britain, June 23, 2025

Israel's greatest generations: Gen Zers, millennials who answered the call after Oct. 7 - opinion

They have saved us from annihilation, and it is up to us, Israelis, Jews, and anyone who values decency and humanity, to help them rebuild.

IDF troops operate behind the Yellow Line in Gaza, November 20, 2025.