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Iris Haim’s son Yotam was taken hostage in Gaza and later accidentally killed by Israeli soldiers. Yet despite it all, she has become a national symbol of positivity.
In train stations and bus shelters, on lamp posts and walls of buildings and nearly any public space, personalized memorials proliferate
Students in Sderot navigate emotional challenges—and missile attacks—as the new academic year approaches
After a Hezbollah rocket murdered 12 kids on a soccer field, a Druze town in the Golan Heights comes together to grieve
Bedouin Israelis share in their country’s grief over lives lost and those held hostage by Hamas since Oct. 7
Fifty years ago today, Palestinian terrorists attacked a school in northern Israel, taking hostages and murdering 22 students. The memories endure for those who survived, and the lessons learned in 1974 resonate anew for a country facing another hostage crisis.
On Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, remembering those who’ve died in battle since Oct. 7, including three U.S.-born ‘lone soldiers’
Portraits and posters commemorate those killed and kidnapped by Hamas
The son of Filipino immigrants, Cydrick Garin grew up in Israel as a ‘temporary resident.’ He worked security for the prime minister, rose through the ranks of the IDF, and became an Israeli citizen before being killed in combat in Gaza.
More than two dozen Israeli women were pregnant when their husbands were killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the ensuing war in Gaza. They have come together to support one another.
In the aftermath of the Hamas massacre, rates of depression, anxiety, and PTSD are climbing fast, even for those who weren’t directly affected. People who experienced earlier traumas—particularly sexual assault—find themselves newly triggered by the Oct. 7 attacks.
A look at life today inside Israeli communities near the Lebanese border, which have largely evacuated as tensions with Hezbollah rise
Even though they’re past the age of regular military service or reserve duty, Druze volunteers are Israel’s second line of defense in the north
‘These kids are not in post-trauma—they’re in trauma’
Two months after the Hamas attack, many of Kibbutz Be’eri’s young adults have returned home, with an eye toward the future
After surviving the Hamas massacre, a Thai agricultural worker with severe burns arrived at an Israeli hospital all alone. Now he’s on the road to recovery—and getting more visitors than he can handle.
In central Tel Aviv, crowds gather to lobby for the release of those kidnapped by Hamas
In Israeli restaurants, people are coming together across religious and political lines
