Time for mental calculation:
Tomorrow, the Zappa Club in Midtown Tel Aviv will hold a conference on the mental resilience of "Israel Today" and the Israel Medical Association.
The conference will begin at nine in the morning and will deal with the psychological consequences of the corona virus and the closures that followed it on the youth.
At the conference center, participants will discuss one of the quiet epidemics that have taken place in the past two years: depression and the onset of various mental illnesses following the upheaval experienced by Israeli society.
The conference will be opened by the editor-in-chief of "Israel Today" Boaz Bismuth, and will be followed by the wife of President Michal Herzog.
The conference will feature five sessions, which will deal with the various aspects of the mental problems that adolescents in Israel and society as a whole face.
The people who will chair the sessions will be "Israel Today" reporters Ran Reznik, Meital Yasur Beit-Or, Daniel Roth-Avnery (who will chair the entire conference), Ran Pony, Shir Ziv and Jackie Levy.
The conference will be attended by many public figures and experts in the fields of medicine, mental health and politics, including: Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton, Minister of Welfare and Social Security Meir Cohen, MKs Michal Rosin and Michal Waldiger, President Elam Nava Barak, Prof. Hagai Levin And more.
The first session will open with the words of Health Minister Horowitz, in a conversation with journalist Ran Reznik, entitled "From Vaccine to Resilience."
Later in the session, there will be a panel discussion on mental health services in Israel from the backyard to the front of the stage, with the participation of MK Michal Waldiger of the Religious Zionist faction and the head of the Knesset Mental Health Lobby, MK Michal Rosin, Dr. Ilan Tal, psychiatrist and director of Dr. Tal For emotional and mental support, and Dr. Gilad Bodenheimer, Director of Mental Health at Maccabi Health Services.
Tickets can be purchased on the Zappa website.
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