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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…
PerspectivesRosh 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 a year after October 7, I wrote about grief, healing, and the need to allow joy to exist alongside sorrow. We were carrying wounds that were still very fresh, and much of the work wasโฆ
PerspectivesWhen Innovation Meets Trauma: Reflections from Leumitโs Research and Innovation Conference
It was in the examples of AI being used to turn messy, fragmented clinical information into usable research data. It was in the presentation on home diagnostics and the promise of bringing care closer to patients. And it was most clearly present in the discussions on stress, trauma, mental health, and long-term health.
PerspectivesHarm Reduction in a Changed World: Meeting People Where They Are
The deeper message of the morning was that harm reduction is not separate from healing. It is often the first condition that makes healing possible. People cannot process trauma if they do not survive the weekend. They cannot return to therapy if shame keeps them away. They cannot rebuild trust if every system they encounter begins with suspicion.
PerspectivesWhat Teenagers from the North Need Adults to Understand
The purpose of the gathering was simple, but in many ways radical: not to speak about youth, not to design another program for them, but to ask them directly what they are living through and what they wish the adults around them understood.
PerspectivesCommunity, Belonging, and Resilience: Insights from the Roundtables on Trauma in Local Authorities
local trauma response must be built in routine, not invented in an emergency.
PerspectivesPTSD Rehabilitation Among Veterans: What Systems Get Right, and What They Miss
This framing implies that recovery cannot be reduced to symptom remission alone, but must include functional reintegration, social participation, and continuity of life over time.
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.
PerspectivesPessach 2026: That Big Space in Between
We are entering this holiday of Pessach in what people have started to call an โemergency routine.โ It is an oxymoron, but a very accurate one.
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."
PerspectivesWhen the Nation Is Under Threat, Many Women Are Too
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Trauma raises the emotional temperature in households already under strain; it stretches coping mechanisms thin. And too often, women and children are the ones absorbing that volatility.
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.
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