The Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, traumatized Israelis and global Jewry. The world’s Jews will recover their equilibrium; however, Israelis will live with the trauma for years, as they did after the shock of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, exactly 50 years earlier.

The toll is everywhere: hostage bodies still in captivity, rising suicides, soldiers in psychological crisis, families buckling under endless reserve duty and creeping fear that the state can no longer guarantee basic security.

As Daniel Gordis observed: “There is loss and heartbreak everywhere, PTSD (in the clinical sense, not two people momentarily rattled at a party) so widespread that an entire society is going to be forever changed.”

Most Israelis have not wavered in their support for the ID

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