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SpotlightSpotlight on AMCHA: Decades of Trauma Wisdom for a Country in Pain
In Israel, AMCHA is still best known for one thing: its long and profound commitment to Holocaust survivors. That remains the heart of the organization. But today, AMCHA is also something more.
PerspectivesPessach 2026: That Big Space in Between
We are entering this holiday of Pessach in what people have started to call an “emergency routine.” It is an oxymoron, but a very accurate one.
SpotlightSpotlight on the ATTUNE Project: A Collective Approach to Healing Collective Trauma
Led by Thomas Hübl, one of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of collective trauma, ATTUNE brings a trauma-informed architecture to Israeli society, one that recognizes that many of today’s challenges cannot be addressed at the level of the individual alone.
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 Israel’s 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 – 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
SpotlightSpotlight on Northern Goals Association (Yeadim Latzafon) – Opportunity, resilience, and the future of Israel’s North
Northern Goals Association (יעדים לצפון) has been working in Israel’s northern periphery for more than two decades, with a consistent focus on expanding opportunity for people living far from the country’s political, economic, and institutional centers.
EventsHealing a Nation: Addressing Israel’s Mental Health “Wicked Problem”
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: “a 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.
UncategorizedWhat 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.
Events“No One Left Behind”: What it takes to build a path for discharged soldiers and their families
The ICAR Collective–Momentum 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 isn’t working, and to ask whether a coordinated system of care for soldiers and their families is still possible.
SpotlightSpotlight on the Niv Nirel Center: Healing Trauma with Structure, Insight, and Heart
The Niv Nirel Center was founded in memory of Niv Raviv and Nirel Zini, who were murdered in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7. It offers professional trauma care for those who suffer from combat or general army service trauma, including members of Israel’s security forces and their families. Rather than treating trauma as a clinical issue alone, the center builds care around the reality that trauma touches every part of life: the body, the home, the community, and the bureaucracy survivors face.
EventsPost-Traumatic Growth Is a Practice.
On September 12, 2025 ICAR Collective hosted a webinar on post-traumatic growth (PTG) with Dr. Edith Shiro—clinical psychologist, author of The Unexpected Gift of Trauma—and Prof. Eyal Fruchter—psychiatrist, PTSD expert, and ICAR’s Head of Medical & Scientific Affairs. It was an hour of straight talk with no sugarcoating and real tools.
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