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Mental Health


Understanding mental health is vital for educating, empowering, and reducing stigma as well as improving mental well-being for individuals and society.

"Incorporate the power of the sea for people living with trauma." Dr. Ariel Ezra during HaGal Sheli activity.

New bachelor's degree to train students in trauma treatment through surf therapy

The path back to ourselves.

Healing overloaded minds: How Israel's prolonged war is affecting memory, concentration

By DR MIKE GROPPER
Cosmetic surgery tools are seen surrounding a face mask (illustrative)

One in five Israeli women who get cosmetic procedures show signs of addiction, study finds

‘ECHOS ACROSS TIME.’ Ending war and striving for peace is a public health imperative, says Prof. Hagit Hochner.

Children of Holocaust survivors face higher schizophrenia risk, Israeli study finds

Bereaved families, friends, and soldiers stand still as a two-minute siren sounds across Israel, marking Memorial Day which commemorates the fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror at the site of the Nova music festival massacre, in Re'im forest, near the Israel-Gaza border, April 21.

'Ecology of healing': Israel's October 7 trauma victims say the system is failing them

Keren Seelenfreund, a student in Ono Academic College’s M.A. program in Art Therapies – Visual Art Therapy

Creating healing through art

By ALAN ROSENBAUM , In Collaboration with Ono Academic College
The Fifth Element

Sheba opens trauma treatment space in the heart of nature

By AVICHAY CHAIM
A father talking to his son on a winter morning in Jaffa street, both wearing protective masks, Jerusalem, November 5th, 2020

Trauma is a reality, but hope is a strategy

By Eran Zimrin
A plate of fruit

The component linked to anxiety is found in every fruit

By WALLA! HEALTH
Esther and Stevie Marcus married in 1991 and lived in Kibbutz Alumim, which was attacked on Oct. 7.

Esther Marcus helped Israelis recover from October 7 - then she became a war widow

Iris Haim with son Yotam z”l, who was mistakenly shot by IDF soldiers in Dec. 2023.

After the IDF mistakenly killed her son in Gaza, Yotam Haim's mother chose forgiveness and hope

Little girl with teddy bear near light wall indoors, back view

Shared vulnerability: Addressing child abuse in diverse Israeli communities

By Eran Zimrin
Twenty years later, I was once again flying solo – but in a paperless world.

Want to be happier? Slow down and reconnect with your family

By BATYA L. LUDMAN
4 dietary nutrients closely linked to reducing depression

4 dietary nutrients closely linked to reducing depression

By WALLA! HEALTH
The ceremony inaugurating the Quiet Tent.

Afeka College's 'Quiet Tent': A space to cope and heal during a time of war, pain, and stress

Illustration: Depression

Study: The party drug that relieves resistant depression and suicidal thoughts

By Itay Gal
TRAUMA THERAPISTS from the Sha’ar HaNegev Resilience Center gather for the first time since Oct.7 on the serene, open lawns of the Nahsholim Hotel, an environment purposefully selected as the ideal natural healing space for communal processing and emotional recovery.

The shoreline that holds: October 7 post-trauma therapists embark on a healing retreat

An illustrative image of a woman in distress in a psychologist's office, with no therapist present.

Israeli young adults show mental health recovery since October 7, but challenges persist

By Asher Smith
MENTEE & MENTOR: Israeli logotherapists Batya Yaniger (L) and Teria Shantall.

Silence before speaking: Logotherapy helps process trauma, evil after October 7

By LIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI
Flower arranging

The complementary treatment that cancer patients asked to continue even after it ended

By Doron Kuperstein
Tomer and Leikie from Married at First Sight

The "Madonna–Whore" complex: When a man loves someone but is not attracted to her

By Doron Kuperstein
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