Veterans

Israel Basketball Association launches 'Back in the Game' initiative for veterans with PTSD

The initiative was created in response to requests from members of the Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization, who said basketball had become an important outlet in helping them cope with trauma.

PARTICIPANTS IN the new ‘Back in the Game’ initiative compete during a special tournament launch event for IDF veterans coping with PTSD, held last Friday in Israel.
People wrapped in Israeli flags walk through the Ammunition Hill historic site in Jerusalem on June 2, 2024.

WATCH: A son's tale of an Ammunition Hill hero

 U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order encouraging more research into ibogaine, next to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joe Rogan, and Americans for Ibogaine CEO W. Bryan Hubbard, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 18

Trump signs order to accelerate Ibogaine research for veterans with PTSD 

PTSD illustration.

As Israel’s PTSD crisis deepens, new treatment offers hope for scarred IDF veterans


Some 70,000 Valentines sent to 104-year-old in tribute to veterans

At the outset, the goal was a modest 100 cards - about one for every one of White's birthdays - but the response has outstripped all expectations.

Boxes containing thousands of Valentine’s Day cards sent to Major Bill White at his home in Stockton

Trump honors veteran who saved 200 Jewish American soldiers in POW camp

The president recounted Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds's heroic actions at the Veterans Day Parade in New York

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a Veterans Day Parade and Wreath Laying ceremony in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 11, 2019

Elizabeth Warren vows to halve veterans' suicide rate in four years

She said she would tackle the problem in her first term by investing in mental healthcare, research into the causes of military suicides and providing annual mental health checks for service members.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren

VETERANS: Proud progenitor

"Quietly, I asked myself, ‘Is this the right thing to do’? I made a decision to come, and there was no looking back,” Gorlin said.

RABBI DAVID Yoel Gorlin, his wife Maira, and their extended family in Israel.

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

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