Sharon Altshul | JNS

Imagine returning home from war, weary, wounded and wheelchair-bound, only to find that your house has become a prison.

The stairs are impassable. The gravel paths turn into obstacles. And the very place you longed to return to no longer feels welcoming.

While the nation’s heart remains with the fallen and the hostages and their families, thousands of wounded Israeli soldiers, some of them survivors of catastrophic injuries, are now facing a different challenge — a war for mobility, dignity and the ability to return to a daily routine.

Thanks to dramatic advances in battlefield medicine, rapid evacuations, bleeding control, and trauma response, more soldiers are surviving. But many return with wounds that will shape the rest of their lives.

The Long Road to Recove

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