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Running Toward Each Other: How Ritza Lanefesh Is Turning Movement into a Language of Healing
That spontaneous act that Goodman called โrunning therapyโ became Ritza Lanefesh, โRunning for the Soul,โ a community-based initiative operating under…
When 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…
Harm 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…
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.
EventsPsychoeducation: Bringing Clarity and Dignity to All
Psychoeducationโteaching people about trauma and mental healthโcan transform confusion into clarity and restore dignity for those rebuilding their lives. Prof. Jonathan Huppert of Hebrew University joined our webinar about normalizing trauma responses, debunking myths around PTSD, and the urgent need for accessible tools that reach people where they are.
EventsWhy Trauma Healing Needs a New Compass: Takeaways from ICARโs Webinar on Public Health Surveillance
Professor Dorit Nitzan and Dr. Gilad Bodenheimer spoke about trauma healing with focus on the role of public health surveillance. Public health surveillance, done well is the difference between waiting for collapse and steering toward recovery.
EventsโWhatโs on Our Mindsโ: NGO Leaders on What Matters
As missiles fell and tensions rose, over 40 NGO leaders and mental health professionals gathered to share whatโs really happening on the groundโfrom caregivers on the edge to systems under strain. This is a snapshot of what theyโre seeing, whatโs breaking, and what urgently needs support.
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