Gabriel Balhassan died of cardiac arrest a decade ago, at the age of 37. An academic conference is now being held in his memory, for his contribution to culture and mental health in Israeli society.
"He gave words to phenomena that we all experience from time to time, but there is no one who puts them on the table like him," says conference organizer Prof. Yossi Levi-Blaz. "The situation today is approaching Gabriel's dream, that mental health will be natural and normal, like we talk about the flu and otitis media," says his brother Emmanuel.