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Health · Strong mind, strong people

Treat the invisible wound first

Whoever is mentally wounded does not wait in line. They are the state’s top priority. This is the fullest-developed part of the platform, and the reason the joint list with Aleh Yarok is a policy alliance rather than an arithmetic one.

Not yet confirmed The six post-trauma statistics are the campaign's own and have not been checked against the Rehabilitation Division or Ministry of Health source data. Why

Sharren Haskel, founder and leader of Israel First, photographed in a white jacket in front of an Israeli flag.
Sharren Haskel, party leader, seat 1.

The numbers behind it

1 in 4Israelis reported post-traumatic symptoms after 7 October.
10,700+war wounded registered with the Rehabilitation Division carrying a mental-health injury.
279suicide attempts by soldiers between January 2024 and July 2025.

Where it shows first: the emergency room

+300%increase in visits to psychiatric emergency rooms since 7 October.
12 hoursaverage wait in a psychiatric emergency room.
1 in 3arrive at an emergency room because of a mental-health crisis connected to the war.

Figures as published by the Israel First campaign. They are the campaign’s own, and this English site has not independently verified them against the Rehabilitation Division or Ministry of Health source data — ask us and we will tell you what we have.

Healthy people. A stronger Israel.

A national programme for treating post-trauma

Expanded access

Shorter waiting times and more accessible care across the whole country, not only where the hospitals already are.

Advanced treatments, integrated

Medical cannabis brought into the standard toolkit for post-trauma rather than left at the edge of it.

Dedicated recovery centres

A network of treatment and rehabilitation centres for soldiers and civilians alike — the distinction matters less than the diagnosis.

Support for families

Guidance, training and practical tools for the people doing the daily work of living alongside it.

Fast care. Close to home. Back to life.

Three frontline triage centres

Be’er Sheva — for the South

Close to the fighters and civilians of the Negev and the Arava.

Tel Aviv — for the Centre

Accessible and professional, built around the civilian population and the reservists.

Tiberias — for the North

Rapid care for residents of the Galilee, the Golan and the valleys.

Rapid response

Shorter waits, by design rather than by triage luck.

Professional teams

Psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers in the same building.

Full support

From diagnosis through to rehabilitation, without being discharged into a gap.

Close to home

Across the country, so that treatment does not require relocating a life.

Bringing psychedelic treatment programmes from the United States, and a microdosing pilot.

A national centre for post-trauma research

Advanced research

Cooperation with the leading institutions in the United States, where most of the clinical work has been done.

Treatment programmes

Bringing research-based protocols into use in Israel rather than waiting a decade to reinvent them.

Microdosing pilot

A pilot evaluating safety and effectiveness for treating post-trauma, run as research and reported as research.

Why this is seat 7’s brief

Aleh Yarok did not join this list to trade a cannabis plank for a place on a ballot. The national centre for post-trauma research is the point where the two parties’ arguments turn out to be the same argument: that Israel is producing traumatised people faster than it is treating them, that the treatments with the strongest recent evidence are the ones Israeli law is least equipped to permit, and that this is a health problem being managed as a policing problem. Rabbi Tzvi Yoel (Harry) Rozenberg at seat 7 has spent close to two decades on exactly this, and it is why he is on the list.

Whoever is mentally wounded does not wait in line.