Maayan Aviv, at The Blogs

Apr 9, 2025, 10:52 PM

Healing is never a solitary process. In our tradition, healing is always supported through community.

The world we live in has changed profoundly in the last few years—especially in Israel—and the weight of those changes is felt deeply in all of us. The challenges we face, both personally and as a society, are daunting. Yet, through it all, we have...

Mar 18, 2025, 12:08 AM

A Mental Health Crisis Like No Other: Israel’s Invisible Battlefield

Six months after October 7th, a staggering statistic emerged: over three million Israelis — more than a third of the nation’s population — were wrestling with trauma. Today, those numbers are much greater. Unlike physical wounds that can be seen and treated, these psychological injuries...

About Me

Maayan Aviv is the CEO of American Friends of NATAL (afnatal.org), an organization dedicated to supporting and strengthening NATAL’s life-changing work, providing critical assistance to Israelis coping from trauma, primarily caused by terrorism and war.