The corona epidemic has almost completely disappeared from our lives and no one seems to miss it.
This is of course a happy event.
The masks, the vaccinations, the isolations and the curves that need to be smoothed over still exist on the margins, but in practice they have finally given way to familiar problems and old debates such as who to vote for and how to deal with the hostile organizations in Gaza.
The traditional question, "Will the school year open as a series", also reappeared, regardless of infection and morbidity.
But the virus may be more sophisticated than it seems, and it continues to produce aftershocks that pose challenges and obstacles long after the tectonic shifts created by the epidemic in its "glory days".
The most worrisome and long-term impact concerns children and youth.
Parents, teachers and administrators have been reporting for a long time about severe phenomena that returned with the students to the schools, with the closures and the queues for tests.
This week, the Forum of Organizations for Public Psychology published data that paint the descriptions of educators in gloomy colors.
The forum gathers the requests of children and youth for mental health care, and a study conducted among the psychologists who met the young people presents a difficult picture:
88 percent of the youth reported anxiety to therapists, 30 percent of them experienced a developmental setback, and problems with social relationships also became common, the percentage of those reporting them reached 90.
More than a third experienced various types of eating disorders, a quarter reported post-traumatic stress disorder, and the most problematic figure indicates that 53 percent of those who turn to mental health professionals described suicidality.
The figures are serious, but they are only a small part of the problem.
The crisis that hangs over Israel's boys and girls is at most partially answered.
While the treasurer and teachers discuss questions of salary, rank and seniority, the blanket of mental health professionals is short to non-existent.
30 percent of the facilities are not staffed at all, and one psychologist is supposed to answer more than a thousand students.
The consequences of this epidemic, if no attempt is made to treat it, we will face not tomorrow but in the future.
Those who suffer from it are very young.
Beyond the immediate need to take care of the suffering children and teenagers are going through - a large-scale mental crisis predicts future poverty and increased use of addictive substances, and can cause damage to national resilience and the ability to withstand crises.
These, every Israeli knows, will arrive almost certainly.
Maybe it will be a security crisis, maybe a blow from the economic side.
Israel is a country in the Middle East, and there is no need to explain the significance of the damage if its future adult citizens have difficulty dealing with crises.
Under the illusion that life is back on track medically, volcanic activity is buzzing, and it is difficult to defend against the eruption of a volcano that is treated as a dormant volcano.
The primary and clear task is to return the students to a study routine.
In a country caught in political vertigo there is quite a mess and worries, so the schools must operate without strikes and create stability.
The classes are first aid for those whose health upheaval has left them vulnerable and too often suicidal.
This is a life-saving matter.
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