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Rosh Hashana 2026: From Emergency to Responsibility
Every Rosh Hashana, I return to the same question: What does this moment ask of us? In 2024, less than…
What Happens Between Asking for Help and Actually Getting It?
On July 20, 2026, representatives of 32 organizations gathered for an ICAR Collective roundtable on mental health support in Arab…
Before Therapy: Nafas.ai Is Building a Different Entry Point into Mental Health for Arab Communities
Nafas.ai began with a moment of not knowing. Rabea Shamaly was working as an AI engineer after completing his studies…
EventsWhat Happens Between Asking for Help and Actually Getting It?
On July 20, 2026, representatives of 32 organizations gathered for an ICAR Collective roundtable on mental health support in Arab society in Israel. Participants came from across the system: health funds, local authorities, schools, clinical practice, academia, civil society, community organizations, philanthropy, and social innovation, bringing different perspectives on where people encounter barriers to care.โฆ
EventsWebinar – Resilience in Motion
What if one of the most important resources for healing is something we carry with us all the time? That question was at the heart of ICAR Collectiveโs recent webinar, โResilience in Motion: Movement-Based Pathways to Regulation, Connection and Care,โ which brought together practitioners working in sports psychology, trauma-sensitive yoga, therapeutic surfing and dance. Onโฆ
EventsSeven Ventures, One Constraint: What The Haifa Demo Day Revealed
On July 6, 2026, more than 300 researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, investors, and health system staff gathered at the University of Haifa for the Haifa Mental Health Innovation Summit. The day closed with Demo Day: seven ventures, each building on real research and clinical experience, pitching live to a jury of investors, clinicians, and innovation leaders.โฆ
EventsICAR Summit 2026 โ Full Report
If last year was about recognizing urgency, this year was about clarity. We now understand the problem better. We know where the system breaks. We see what needs to be built. The challenge is no longer conceptual. It is operational.
EventsWhen Trauma Fuels Addiction: The War Will End but The Habit May Stay
Todayโs webinar made one thing clear – trauma and addiction can no longer be treated as separate issues. Professor Eyal Fruchter and Professor Shauli Lev-Ran laid out a reality that is both painful and urgent.
EventsLessons from the Field: Supporting Communities Through Evacuation and Recovery
The webinar today (Mar 17, 2026) brought together practitioners and local leaders with direct experience supporting evacuated communities and residents affected by trauma, displacement, and prolonged emergency.
EventsThe Long Game: Mental Health NGOs and Israelโs Public Systems
In a webinar moderated by Maya Lusky, Strategy and Research Manager at ICAR Collective, three practitioners, Liat Eilam, VP of Partnerships and Activities at 121 โ Engine for Social Change; Michal Yarom, Deputy CEO at Sheatufim; and Jonny Cline, social impact strategist, nonprofit executive, and advisor, offered a grounded look at what it actually means to work with public institutions in Israel. Not in theory. In practice: ministries, municipalities, HMOs, and all the friction that comes with t
EventsHealing a Nation: Addressing Israelโs Mental Health โWicked Problemโ
On the second day of the 2025 General Assembly, at the end of a panel called Healing a Nation: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Israel, one phrase captured the essence of what we are facing. Israel is living through is a wicked problem: โa problem so complex that every attempted solution reveals new challenges."
EventsWhat Happens When 50 Organizations Sit Around One Table – A shared Learning Day hosted by ICAR Collective in partnership with the Lion Family
50 organizations came together for a shared Learning Day hosted by ICAR Collective in partnership with the Lion Family to focus on What it will take to build a coordinated mental-health ecosystem that can carry Israel through the next decade and beyond.
EventsโNo One Left Behindโ: What it takes to build a path for discharged soldiers and their families
The ICAR CollectiveโMomentum roundtable on September 29th brought together people who rarely sit at the same table. Around it were senior representatives from ~35 key stakeholders in the field. This was only a small sample. The goal was not to celebrate collaboration but to face what isnโt working, and to ask whether a coordinated system of care for soldiers and their families is still possible.
EventsPost-Traumatic Growth Is a Practice.
On September 12, 2025 ICAR Collective hosted a webinar on post-traumatic growth (PTG) with Dr. Edith Shiroโclinical psychologist, author of The Unexpected Gift of Traumaโand Prof. Eyal Fruchterโpsychiatrist, PTSD expert, and ICARโs Head of Medical & Scientific Affairs. It was an hour of straight talk with no sugarcoating and real tools.
EventsWhat We Learn by Sitting in the Same Room
On September 9th, we gathered at Startup Nation Central in Tel Aviv for a morning that felt both urgent and grounding. The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, together with ICAR Collective, brought together grantees and donors to look closely at the mental health response in Israel after October 7.
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