Health NOV 12, 2024
Ultra-Orthodox social workers treat wartime trauma
“My mission is to ensure that there will be no second generation of pain from Oct. 7,” says Pinchas Weiss, the founding director of what was originally an NGO catering to the ultra-Orthodox.
It was three days after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, and an Israeli woman whose brother had been killed in the surprise cross-border terror assault was conferring with a social worker about how to talk with her parents.
At the end of the call, she asked the social worker matter-of-factly where he was from.
His answer surprised her—Beitar Illit, an ultra-Orthodox community southwest of Jerusalem in Gush Etzion.
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