{"id":30917,"date":"2023-12-10T14:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30917"},"modified":"2023-12-10T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:02:21","slug":"ono-scholars-weigh-in-on-the-long-term-effects-of-the-gaza-conflict-on-israels-children-health-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/ono-scholars-weigh-in-on-the-long-term-effects-of-the-gaza-conflict-on-israels-children-health-and-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Scholars Weigh in on the Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Conflict on Israel\u2019s Children, Health, and Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/18c69a3c-6714-48a4-8ad9-6b1d887de989\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"206\" class=\"wp-image-30919 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Leeman-Barak-and-Kalir-12.23-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Leeman-Barak-and-Kalir-12.23-1.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Leeman-Barak-and-Kalir-12.23-1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<p><strong>Ono Scholars Weigh in on the Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Conflict on Israel\u2019s Children, Health, and Economy<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Three scholars who teach at Ono Academic College were recently interviewed by the Jerusalem Post about the ways in which the war with Hamas is having long-term effects on Israel\u2019s children, health, and economy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Yehuda Leeman, a psychotherapist and lecturer at Ono Academic College, noted the extremely high incidence of trauma among children since October 7<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Nearly half of Israel\u2019s 3 million children have suffered from trauma. Leeman said that the number of children who will need emotional support is expected to be unprecedented \u2013 \u201cnumbers that we never, ever dealt with in any previous war.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Ayelet Barak-Nahum, a culinary art therapist and social worker who teaches at Ono explained how war stress fuels unhealthy eating. \u201cWhen we get older, and we are on the edge \u2013 like we are now \u2013 and we are looking to get rebalanced to bring down the stress, many of us use food to calm us down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dr. Ido Kallir, the Director of Ono\u2019s BA program in Actuarial Studies and its BA program in Finance discussed the war\u2019s contributions to inflation. He noted that prior to the war, inflation was already high. In addition the tensions caused by the civil strife surrounding Israel\u2019s judicial reform caused Israel to lose \u201c. . . the trust of some of the important bodies in the international financial world, and then came the war.\u201d To read the full article, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-777163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-777163<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ono Scholars Weigh in on the Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Conflict on Israel\u2019s Children, Health, and Economy Three scholars who teach at Ono Academic College were recently interviewed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30919,"menu_order":286,"template":"","class_list":["post-30917","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}