Israel's care for traumatized veterans is broken. Fixing it will be hard
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's military correspondent. Illustrative: Golani Brigade soldiers stand guard near the grave of their comrade Amit Ben-Ygal, at the Be'er Ya'akov cemetery, on May 15, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90) Israel’s existing mechanisms for finding and treating veterans coping with post-traumatic stress are woefully inadequate due to a notoriously invasive and byzantine Defense Ministry bureaucracy, structural issues that prevent people from requesting help they need, and generally ineffective treatment options. Those issues came to the fore this week after 26-year-o...
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