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research team in late 2012. He was among the 5 who were most recommended by the Trauma Resilience expert panel of Israeli scholarϪpractitioners. In addition, he was held captive in Egypt during the Yom Kippur War (known as the Israeli Pearl Harbor) and has studied and written about his personal and professional journey. Also, he is the nephew of one of the most heralded Israeli heroes, Hannah Senesh, who tried to rescue Jews during World War II and who was captured and executed. In this article, he shares his own captivity experiences, but most of the article focuses on the insights derived from enduring so much pain, suffering, and fear. He also writes about his sense of moral responsibility for fellow victims of incarceration and torture. He further argues that exposure to such experiences convinced him of the importance of flexibility to adapt as needed, including appreciation for some of your captors' behavior.In conclusion, he points to the strong sense of personal, familial, and collective identity of Israelis who must struggle with the harmful effects of the generational transfer of trauma in confronting the Holocaust and now confronting efforts to destroy Israel. Most of the article then addresses the importance of regaining one's sense of self by dealing with laws and rules applying to veterans and POWs, seeking support and understanding from others for the collective good, a sense of inner peace, and psychic resilience.

Health professionals and lawyers in Israel have used the Istanbul Protocol (IP), the internationally accepted protocol for documenting torture and ill-treatment, for many years (Abu Akar et al., 2014; Weishut, 2022; Weishut et al., 2023). A complete IP report requires substantial effort and investment of - mostly pro bono - experts, while the IP interview on which it is based is often an emotionally burdensome experience for clients. This paper presents insights about the use of the IP in Israel, as collected by a group of experts in the documentation of torture and ill-treatment, at the reception of the revised (2022) version.

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