Trauma

Cula uses food and community to help people rebuild their lives

Jerusalem initiative provides supportive employment for people navigating mental health challenges while creating connections through cooking, shared meals and community events.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Cula - Communal Culinary initiative.

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.

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We're just in survival mode': Israel's new normal after October 7

Israelis have learned to switch between war and ordinary life, but three years of uncertainty have left their mark

SEPTEMBER 28, 2026|ByCHANI KAPLAN

The UN has failed to take action, despite hearing the testimonies of October 7 survivors and freed hostages.

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UN verified hostages faced sexual violence in Gaza, then failed to act - analysis

The evidence of sexual violence against Israeli hostages was there. What was missing? Meaningful UN action

SEPTEMBER 28, 2026|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF

Irene Nurith Cohn is a volunteer in the Zaka scuba unit

From trauma to healing: My October 7th

"I am no longer the person I was prior to that day. For me, October 7th has never receded into the past tense. It penetrated my core, my psyche, my very phenomenology."

SEPTEMBER 27, 2026|ByIRENE NURITH COHN

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.

MAY 19, 2026ByOMER TULCHINSKY

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.

MAY 17, 2026ByBARBARA SOFER

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

MAY 13, 2026ByRONNIE ROSENMAN

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

MAY 8, 2026BySTEWART WEISS

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.

MAY 7, 2026ByMEIRA LERNER, IN COLLABORATION WITH WORLD EMUNAH

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.

MAY 6, 2026ByMAX RADFORD