Emotional Resilience

Seaside museum becomes resilience hub for Israel's war-scarred survivors

A maritime museum on Israel’s coast has reinvented itself as a resilience center, helping soldiers and civilians breathe again after the trauma of October 7.

The Sea Museum’s support program reaches all sectors of Israel’s population who were affected by the war. In this photo, mothers of those murdered at the Supernova music festival share the experience. Premium
A man writing in a gym

The cheap habit that improves brain function and builds mental resilience

 Tired pensive military man feeling worry and despair overhead view. Psychological trauma and PTSD treatment at therapy session. Tired pensive military man feeling worry and despair overhead view

New blueprint for trauma recovery: Winning the silent war of our generation - opinion

FORMER HOSTAGE Bar Kupershtein arrives home in Holon on Sunday. ‘Sound hope’ is careful, rational, and based on collected evidence, as some may have experienced during the various ceasefires and hostage releases, says the writer.

From despair to hope: The emotional rollercoaster of Israel’s struggle - opinion


The Light That Stands Still

No acknowledgment, no applause, no moment of recognition - Just the steady pulse of light

Biloxi, Mississippi, USA Lighthouse at dusk

An embrace across generations

When Holocaust survivors and survivors of October 7 walked together at the March of the Living, a bridge was formed between past and present.

Holocaust survivors, freed Israeli hostages and family members

Maimonides’ medicine: 5 simple steps to regain a sense of control and inner calm

Uncertain times can unsettle us and our children, but Maimonides’ practical tools—breathing, movement, sleep, and nutrition—can strengthen body, mind, and family resilience.

Maimonides wrote that “air is the beginning of health”

From combat to recovery: What Israel owes its soldiers - opinion

More than half of the 20,000 soldiers wounded since the October 7 massacre are struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other mental health challenges.

IDF soldiers prepare their weapons on a tank at a temporary army base opposite the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Israel’s secret weapon is not technology, not money-but society

Tanks, aircraft and lasers are important, but without resilience, mutual responsibility, camaraderie, civic initiative and national pride - nothing will endure.

People celebrate at Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 9, 2025

Can you forgive your computer, smartphone, or app when it breaks down?

a new study by two Israeli researchers found people can apply mechanisms of forgiveness toward technology, similar to the way we do with other people.

‘WE WANTED TO explore whether feelings like disappointment or anger toward technology can give way to forgiveness, allowing people to keep using it without resentment’

“Israel is Only at the Beginning of an Emotional Tsunami”

Against a growing mental health crisis, Life’s Door reports surge in demand for hope workshops

Prof. Ben Corn, founder of The Institute for the Study of Hope, at a Hope Seminar

Israel’s northern border: Resilience and community-building - opinion

This spirit, not victimhood, that ensures the Jewish people will endure, rebuild, and thrive in their homeland – again and again

 Smoke billows over northern Israel after rockets were fired from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, by Israel's border with Lebanon, May 17, 2024.

October 7 shattered our sense of safety but not our capacity for resilience - opinion

Resilience is not about snapping back to what was before but about taking pain and integrating it into a story that creates strength.

 View of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, January 16, 2025.

25 ViZionaries: Noa Cochva - No. 19

Her advocacy has reached millions, inspiring others to speak up

Noa Cochva

Social media fuels anxiety and weakens resilience - opinion

Reliance on social media for news is associated with higher anxiety and lower perceptions of national resilience among Israelis.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021