How are the survivors of Hamas terror doing? An interview with Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Israeli writer and psychologist who worked as an emergency responder after October 7th.
The Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen dealt with themes such as guilt and trauma in her novels such as “Awakening Lions”, “Liar” and “Where the Wolf Lurks”, as a senior psychologist at a clinic at the Shalvata Hospital for Mental Health in Tel Aviv on topic. After the Oct. 7 attack, her clinic sent teams of volunteers to the Red Sea resort of Eilat, where survivors were taken to hotels – kibbutz residents, festival-goers, relatives of those abducted. They looked after the victims in shifts of one week each, and Gundar-Goshen is now back in Tel Aviv. “The government is slowly starting to wake up to some extent,” she says on the phone, adding that psychological care is slowly being institutionalized by the state.