'Resilience' of Israelis as they mourn the loss of loved ones and 'the sense that we can be safe'

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Dr. Danny Brom says Israelis are grieving a major loss of life while also experiencing a shattered sense of collective safety, and he points to resilience alongside that grief. He warns that the war continues as leaders invoke an undefined goal of “ultimate victory,” raising questions about how communities can rebuild security without being ruled by fear.

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Dr. Danny Brom, Founding Director of METIV, the Israel Psychotrauma Center in Jerusalem. According to Dr. Brom, as Israelis and Jewish people around the world continue to mourn the largest loss of Jewish life on a single day since the Holocaust, their fundamental sense of collective security has also been shattered. What strikes him, however, is the resilience that exists alongside the grieving. How can individuals, communities and society rebuild a sense of safety without allowing fear to dictate the future? Yet, as Dr. Brom observes, “the war is still going on,” while political leaders speak of pursuing “the ultimate victory, which no one really knows what that is.”