Resilience & Healthy Routine
Coping with emergencies, emotional support, and wartime daily routine
Coping with emergencies, emotional support, and wartime daily routine
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Emotional and Mental Support
If either you or anyone in your family experiences difficulties or stress in response to the war, we have gathered here for you the list of emotional support hotlines that… -
Emotional First Aid in Case of Emergency
Guidelines for emotional first aid in stressful situations, and how to relieve someone's stress using the guidelines of the MAASEH method: commitment, encouragement, asking questions and structuring. -
Traumatic Stress Responses and Coping Strategies
This information will guide you on how to help yourself grow stronger and resume normal functioning or how assist family members who have been exposed to the traumatic events or… -
Post War and Disaster Traumatic Stress
Disasters can have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences for their victims. We have compiled information on a variety of beneficial intervention strategies that can assist people in recovering from stressful and… -
Parental Guidance on Managing Child Traumatic Stress
Anxiety has different manifestations among children of different age groups and between children of the same age group. All the information and recommendations that parents need for coping with anxiety… -
Helping Children Understand Tragic Events
A couple of tips that will help you if you need to talk to your children about difficult subjects. -
Traumatic Stress While Pregnant or Breastfeeding
All the information for women who are coping with stress and trauma while they are pregnant or breastfeeding. Tips for coping with stress, emotional support hotlines and more. -
Healthy Nutrition in Emergency States
Healthy nutrition is important and helps reinforcing our physical and mental resilience. We have gathered here all the information, hotlines and phone numbers on the subject of nutritional counseling and… -
Keeping Children and Adults Busy
Keeping busy and active during crisis times carries therapeutic powers. It helps self-regulation of powerful emotions, relieve tensions and maintain resilience. We have gathered here some examples for suitable activities. -
Information Security and Cyber Security
Israel is currently facing many cyber threats to its citizens, organizations, and companies. These threats come in various forms, including network hacking attempts, phishing scams, fraud, and more. -
Substance Abuse
Stressful and emergency situation may increase abuse of such substances as drugs and alcohol. You should avoid abusing these substances to avoid addiction and you should seek professional help or…
Emotional and Mental Support
We are witnessing difficult events in our country that may trigger various traumatic stress responses. It is important to know that harsh feelings are an inseparable part of a normal response to an abnormal situation.
In most cases, there will be a gradual reduction in the intensity of the negative feelings and emotions. It is clear that it will not be possible to forget completely about the difficult events that we are experiencing, but one can expect that the feelings and the thoughts will become tolerable and less intrusive as some time passes from the events.
Further information about traumatic stress and coping with it
If you feel that either you or someone in your family cannot feel relief or that your feelings are getting worse over time, it is important that you seek professional health care.
Resilience centers
Amidst the war, resilience centers offer free therapeutic services to people suffering from anxiety and stress. The trauma-focused treatment is delivered by licensed healthcare professionals. The centers provide individual, group, or family treatments, either by phone, by Zoom, or in person, in treatment centers across the country.
Resilience centers: who do they serve?
Anyone who feels overwhelmed, finds it difficult to function, and was traumatized by a security-related experience is an intended candidate for treatment.
Who is eligible to receive treatment at resilience centers?
The resilience centers provide their services according to your permanent place of residence. Therefore, you should contact the resilience center affiliated with the address registered in the Ministry of the Interior.
See all resilience centers (in Hebrew)
Emotional support by HMOs
In order to provide task-specific emotional support during an emergency situation, all HMOs provide emotional support in the form of three therapeutic sessions with professionals.
HMOs' hotlines:
Emotional support associations for all Israelis
- ALUT: 03-670-3077 (support for families of children with autism spectrum disorders)
- ERAN (emotional first aid): 1201, WhatsApp: 052-8451201
- NATAL: 1-800-363-363 (emotional support for victims traumatized by nationalist terrorism)
- METIVTA: *2837 (an orthodox, family-oriented treatment and counseling center in a nationwide deployment)
- Hashivem: *3251 (emotional support hotline for the orthodox and ultra-orthodox population, including in Yiddish)
- Ask Me: 053-789-3424
- Akshiva: 02-376-4763
- SAHAR: 055-957-1399
- Makshivim: *3596
- Derekh Gever: 079-699-9004
- TAFSAN: 058-579-7888
- Elem: 054-942-4062
- Nefesh Ahat: *8944
- Merkaz Hava: 052-666-8799
- Duet Institute: For parents of infants 054-241-1267
- Hava Center for pregnant women and after-delivery support: 052-666-8799
- Duet Center for parents with toddlers 054-750-3970
- Hotline for female victims of sexual trauma: 1202
- Hotline for male victims of sexual trauma: 1203
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): 050-404-0983
- Ezer MiZion: 1800-808-100
- University of Bar-Ilan's emotional support hotline 03-531-8811
- Likhyot: mental first aid for religious and orthodox people: 0747-800-380
List of hotlines of government agencies and local councils (Hebrew)
Assistance with Therapy Coordination and Benefits Claims for Survivors of Music Festivals on Oct 7
If you participated in a music festival during the October 7 attack, please fill out a designated form: Assistance with Treatment Coordination and Maximizing Benefits for Survivors of Music Festivals on Oct 7. The information you provide will be sent to the appropriate HMO to help coordinate medical or psychological treatment and ensure you receive all of your health benefits.
Your information will be kept confidential and will only be shared with the relevant HMO.
Please note: Submitting this form does not guarantee that the Ministry of Health or the HMO will contact you.
If you are concerned, we recommend reaching out to your doctor, the HMO lines, or mental health support centers. In emergencies, please go to the nearest emergency room.
Regular physicians and therapists
It is advised that you discuss potential sources of emotional support with your primary care physician or other regular healthcare professionals. Your regular healthcare professionals can offer the best therapeutic course of action for you based on their prior experience with you. You can hold a long-distance consultation without having to physically visit your clinic by scheduling an online appointment (telemedicine) with the majority of healthcare providers or sending a written request to your primary care physician through the website or the application of your insuring HMO.
People who have previously received psychiatric or psychological therapy
These traumatic events may trigger or worsen previous or existing mental conditions. If you have received psychotherapy before and you feel that your mental health is deteriorating in light of the war situation, you should contact your regular therapist. If your regular therapist is unavailable, you may contact the nearest HMO clinic or your primary care physician.
Sign language interpretation
Sign Now IO: Deaf persons are welcome to sign in to an immediate call facilitated by a sign language interpreter for any emergency call.
Emergency calls: www.sign-now.io
Professional, emotional assistance, and support hotline for new immigrants
A trained professional-run hotline offering emotional support in Amharic, Russian, French, Spanish, and English 3201