Emotional Resilience

After the holiday tables: Unmasking the invisible trauma in Israel’s homes

Building a resilient Israel begins with safeguarding the smallest among us - Our duty to protect our children from invisible trauma continues with a sense of urgency.

Family sitting on floor playing with girl around coffee table at home
WOMEN STAND in prayer at the Kotel.

Israel after Oct. 7: What Moses teaches us about survival and responsibility

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

Creating healing through art

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


Local government, national impact: Haim Bibas on shaping Israel’s future

The Federation of Local Authorities in Israel’s chairman discusses why municipalities have become Israel’s problem-solvers, and how they play a central role in addressing the country’s challenges

Haim Bibas, head of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel and mayor of Modi’in Maccabaim Re’ut.

"I am functioning, but I have no energy for anything": The phenomenon threatening Israelis

For more than two years, Israelis have been living between sirens and continuous uncertainty. Beneath the surface, the phenomenon of resilience fatigue is spreading.

Israelis in a bomb shelter

Top financial experts weigh opportunities in Israel at JPost conference

“In the most difficult years of the war, in 2024 and 2025, Israel had a positive GDP growth. The Israeli economy and industry and innovation are more attractive now than ever.”

Josh Wolfe, American Venture Capitalist, Nathan Tsror, Economic Minister, North America TradeIL- Economic Mission to the USA – East Coast & Alex Witkoff, CEO, Witkoff Group; Board Member, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

At 'Post' conference, HaGal Sheli CEO highlights surf therapy's role in national recovery

“Every wave becomes a teacher, and every wipeout is a chance to rise again. We cannot prevent trauma, but we can control what happens next, one wave at a time.”

Yaron Waksman, Co-Founder and CEO of HaGal Sheli (My Wave)

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.”

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

The prize recognizes those strengthening Israeli resilience. The committee, chaired by Haim Taib includes Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, Prof. Yifat Bitton, Dr. Yekoutiel Sabah & Sheikh Muhana Fares

Haim Taib, President, Taib Family Foundation

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

In the wake of October 7, a growing number of Israeli women are choosing to conceive the babies of their fallen partners – raising profound legal and ethical questions

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.

Where disability meets determination

Etgarim empowers children and adults of all abilities through life-changing sports programs — giving them confidence, community, and a future without limits

Oran Almog and Etgarim CEO Nir HaCohen.

Freedom under fire: Independence Day and the shared song of Israel-Iran resilience - opinion

This Independence Day will be infused with the knowledge that Israel has the power to withstand those who seek to destroy it

AN ISRAELI flag seen next to a sign pointing toward a protected space outside Mahaneh Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.

We need to stop using the word 'resilience' to describe Israel, here's why

We are one of the most resilient nations on the planet, but after the years of emotional and physical hell we have endured, that word feels like a cop-out and does not accurately describe how we feel.

Israelis do yoga at an underground garage, used as a public shelter, in Tel Aviv during the Israel-US war with Iran. March 17. 2026.