Healing the battlefield: IDF opens mental health access for soldiers within 24 hours

IDF soldiers are suffering from sleep disturbances, concentration issues, anxiety, mood swings, decreased appetite and more.

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.

(photo credit: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)

ByAVIHAI CHIIM

JULY 27, 2025 01:50

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EDITORIAL

Emmanuel Macron is wrong. Now is not the time for Palestine