More than two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks shattered Israel and reverberated globally in rising antisemitism and anti-Zionism, international trauma expert Gina Ross believes that even the worst tragedy in Israeli history carries the potential for healing for Israel, the Jewish people and the wider world.

“Israel has an opportunity for repair and redemption,” Ross told JNS before a studio interview in Jerusalem on Tuesday, echoing the title of her new book. “There is also an opportunity for moral clarity and renewal that never existed before for the Jewish people and the world.”

Ross, founder and president of the International Trauma-Healing Institute in the United States and Israel, is a psychotherapist specializing in individual and collective trauma. She has spent decade

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