Emotional Resilience

Tania Friedlander on leadership under pressure and moving forward in an unstable world

“People already fluent in resilience deserve leaders who understand it too, not only as survival, but as strategy.”
Haim Taib, President, Taib Family Foundation

Taib prize for national resilience unveiled: Honoring those strengthening Israel from within

Hadas Levy is the first Israeli woman to give birth to a baby whose father was killed in the war against Hamas using posthumous sperm removal.

Posthumous parenthood: After loss of loved ones, Israeli widows choose to bring new life

Oran Almog and Etgarim CEO Nir HaCohen.

Where disability meets determination


Parashat Vayigash: A shoulder of tears

 Though the formal verse of 'Shema, Israel' would only be inscribed later in Torah, Jacob sensed its truth centuries earlier.

Joseph meeting his father, Jacob, in the desert, at the frontier of Egypt. Painting by Jean-Antoine Julien de Parme (1736 - 1799).

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.

The cheap habit that improves brain function and builds mental resilience

A new study explains how writing, even a grocery list or a WhatsApp message, helps regulate emotions, improve functioning, and cope better with life’s challenges.

A man writing in a gym

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

The State of Israel must finally recognize that the proper treatment of post trauma among soldiers and civilians is central to our recovery.

 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

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

Israelis have undergone countless psychological and emotional phases throughout the war.

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.

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