Mental Health

Anchored in the Earth: The theraputic farm helping Israel's combat veterans

Now in its second year, the initiative serves approximately 60 veterans across four cohorts, providing a structured path toward healing and reintegration through farm-based therapeutic work.

IDF VETERANS work the fields as part of Kaima’s Anchored in the Earth therapeutic farming program.
Mental health [illustrative]

Israel experiences 150% more investments in mental health, $352 million in startup funding in 2025

From L to R: KeepOlim Board Members Fabien Berdah, LiAmi Lawrence, Jessica Thangjom, and Director of Tikva, Susan Cohen.

KeepOlim: supporting olim where the system falls short

A boy in distress

Two years into the war: One in every five calls to ERAN is from a child or adolescent


HUJI study links October 7 trauma to surge in OCD among Israelis

Nearly 40% of survivors near Gaza show probable OCD, with new compulsive behaviors tied to trauma from the Hamas attacks.

Prof. Eyal Kalanthroff

Gaza war drives young Israelis toward deeper faith and spirituality, study finds

According to the study, roughly one in four university students became more religious, while one in three described themselves as more spiritual.

Religious Jews gather on the eve of Tisha B'Av at a synagogue in Tel Aviv, August 12, 2024

Guardians of Colorado: How land and river teach us to heal

Farming here doesn’t pay the bills; it feeds something older. It’s about self-sustenance and standing guard so the land might heal.

TOWERING RED ROCK formations in the Garden of the Gods stand majestically against the backdrop of Colorado Springs’ peaks.

Lessons from ‘shiva’: A tribute to my very special editor

Judaism's mourning rituals parallel the psychological pathway to healing and help enable us to transition through the process of shiva, shloshim, and the first year after death.

THE WRITER with her beloved husband.

The Time Diet: Lose weight without counting calories and without guilt

“I don’t have time” is the common excuse that keeps us from taking care of ourselves. Anat Inbar’s Time Diet offers a mindful approach that reconnects us to the present moment.

If we decide that “tomorrow we start a diet,” it’s likely that today we will already eat too much – because we think that tomorrow it will be over

Healing After War: Hadassah’s Comprehensive Path to Rehabilitation and Recovery

In this episode, host Maayan Hoffman discusses with Dr. Elior Moreh the incredible work being carried out at Hadassah's Gandel Rehabilitation Center.

Rehab Reimagined

We must tread softly among a torn and beautiful people - opinion

I think of Esther now, and of so many like her. Survivors, parents, grandparents, people carrying wounds that most of us could not survive, and yet they endure, they bless, they celebrate, they love.

 Pictures of the participants of the Nova party who were murdered and kidnapped by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023 are displayed at the site of the Nova music festival massacre, in Re'im, near the Israeli-Gaza border, November 28, 2023

Olympic Committee of Israel and ‘Ze BeNafshi’ team up

The event, held at the Olympic House in Tel Aviv, was designed to raise awareness of mental health challenges, break down stigma, and provide a meaningful and empowering experience.

OCI EXECUTIVES, athletes and Ze BeNafshi members pose during their joint event over the weekend.

Health Ministry's solutions for IDF mental health are inadequate, endanger soldiers - opinion

How can we deal with suicide if someone who turns to community mental health care has to wait months and even longer, only to receive a response that is sometimes minimal?

 An IDF soldier walks near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in southern Israel, December 31, 2023.

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.