Veterans

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy reduces PTSD in 80% of soldiers, Israeli study finds

While under the influence of MDMA, patients are believed to be able to engage with traumatic memories while experiencing emotional regulation, trust, and psychological safety.

The dedicated treatment suite established for the MDMA-assisted psychotherapy clinical trial, where participants undergo supervised eight-hour treatment sessions. Illustrative image.
Koftan Halabi (L), founder of Isfiya's D-TEC, and Nechemia Peres, co-founder of Pitango Venture Capital, at the D-TEC Druze Tech-Fest.

From soldiering to start-ups: Israel's Druze community is building its own start-up ecosystem

Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who was caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground, sits during a hearing at a military appeals court in Tel Aviv during which he was charged with manslaughter on April 18, 2016.

Israel Katz's populist push to pardon Elor Azaria puts Israel at serious risk - comment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset vote on a bill to freeze arrests of haredi draft evaders, in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026

Knesset votes to freeze arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders amid IDF manpower crisis


Huge study explores genetics of PTSD

Suicide rates are higher among veterans suffering from PTSD, which is estimated to affect between 11% and 20% of those who served in the military.

An elderly woman suffers from PTSD. [illustrative]

He’s a Yankee Doodle Dandy

This July 4, we salute George Bader – one of the 550,000 American Jews who served in World War II.

SOLDIER GEORGE BADER, somewhere in France, September 25, 1944: ‘My thoughts are always with you, Love, George,’ he wrote.

New UK Mideast minister on first visit to Israel with British veterans

"The armed forces of Israel and the UK are the best of us and I salute you."


State Comptroller: Insufficient care given to disabled IDF veterans

Defense Ministry admits they've been struggling to recruit quality doctors for several years.

Developmentally disabled soldiers sworn into IDF

Veterans: Extraordinary brothers

These brothers are anything but ordinary: they were among Israel’s first lone soldier volunteers and original Zionists who have managed to keep their passion for the Jewish state alive for nearly

THE BROTHERS Levine: Harold (left) and Philip.

Remains of a Jewish serviceman killed in Pearl Harbor bombing identified

Pearl Harbor 311

ER doctor at Florida veterans hospital shot by double amputee shooter

Bon is a homeless veteran who spent a short time in the U.S. Army in the ‘70s.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker (L) talks with amputee Aaron Schoenfeld, a Marine veteran from Navarre, Florida, at a hearing by the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center March 6, 2007. Schoomaker's brother, M

To be a part of the IDF disabled veterans

“Dad, it’s me, I am injured but I am alive.”

An IDF soldier

Pedal to the metal – in Israel

From Odessa to Ashkelon.

‘MOSES,’ BY Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1513-1515, at San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome)

Vets group helps Americans and Israelis cure deep wounds

Heroes to Heroes brings veterans from across the United States to Israel so they can experience the Jewish State’s ability to cure their deepest wounds.

 Heroes to Heroes veterans Harrison Manyoma (right) and Omar Jana seen after getting baptized in the Jordan River