I feel embarrassed in front of other employees when I can't remember details that I used to be able to pull up in a second.
R. Project Manager
Reserve days, 3 rounds, in the Gaza Strip 160
I feel embarrassed in front of other employees when I can't remember details that I used to be able to pull up in a second.
R. Project Manager
Reserve days, 3 rounds, in the Gaza Strip 160
They left Gaza and Lebanon.
The survey will reveal how to make it easier for them to return to work.
Let's find out how employers can facilitate the return of
– Iron Swords reservists to the workplace
With insights from the research that reveals everything
Since the beginning of Iron Swords, the Israeli Defense Partnership Association has met with over 1,300 reservists who came to the villa to implement the method for preventing post-trauma. Many of them told us about the difficulties they face when they return to work.
In order to provide a response
We conducted a first-of-its-kind field study among the hundreds of Iron Swords reservists who came to the villa, and built a plan and practical tools for organizations on how to facilitate their return to work.
The tools were developed by Dr. Ronny Simmons, a senior clinical psychologist, trauma and post-trauma expert, and developer of the Iron Swords method for preventing post-trauma.
Human Resources Managers
You are invited to an exposure meeting
Here you will discover how it is possible to make it easier for employees who have returned from reserve service in the Iron Swords to return to their work routine.
We will hear stories from the field, be exposed to the results of the survey that presents the difficulties they face, understand the psychological effects, and learn practical tools developed following meetings with over 1,300 reserve soldiers who were at the villa.
This is not a theoretical meeting! These are practices that will help you manage your return to work in a sensitive and precise manner.
Join all the dozens of organizations that have already arrived at the exposure meeting at the villa
Among them are Intel, Electra Consumer Products, Cisco, Hertz, Matrix, Tidhar, the Central Beverage Company, HP, Bank Hapoalim, Strauss, Albad and more.
The meeting is free of charge • The number of places is limited
and requires advance registration.
המפגש ללא עלות • מספר המקומות מוגבל ומותנה בהרשמה מראש.
מנהלים משתפים
Yael Barak, Deputy Director of the Herzl Military Academy
"The things we encountered after what happened on October 7th cannot be learned from professional textbooks in Israel and around the world. When I arrived at the villa, I knew that this is where I wanted to bring the workers."
“This is the biggest challenge this year. The things we encountered after what happened on October 7th, you can’t learn. We often run to professional books in Israel and around the world to learn. It took me to a practical place to look for tools outside the organization. As the HR VP of a relatively large organization that has been through a lot this year, we constantly receive invitations, come here, learn, come to conferences, but something about the invitation from an Israeli defense partnership to come to the villa caught my eye: the professionals there who know and specialize and who have heard so many reserve soldiers who went through October 7th.
The villa offers something more innovative in its capabilities. When the invitation for this day was sent to me, it identified a need for something that I didn’t know enough about. I arrived at the villa with one of the human resources managers and told her I wanted to come here. I saw something here that I hadn’t seen in other places.
Shahar Shemesh, CEO of Delek Motors
"I recommend that managers take this step and spend a day at the villa to understand how important it is to send your employees there."
Our employees spent 200-250 days in reserve service. They returned more aggressive, more introverted, some started carrying weapons, some lost weight. This is a period that can take a very long time. We have employees who have not been in reserve service for three months, and they are still not the same people.
The Israeli Magen partnership allows us as organizations to locate the people who really need help, and refer them to the villa. So in my small part of the day, I can only recommend to every CEO, every human resources manager, first of all to take this step and spend a day in the villa to understand what it means and how important it is to send your employees there. And secondly, to try to convince the employees who returned from reserve to experience this experience. It is a relieving experience, and it will simply support and help us welcome them back into the organization healthy and unharmed.
Anat Barkan, VP of Electra Consumer Products
"I realized that just asking how they were doing, sending them packages home, wasn't enough."
Suddenly we found ourselves with two hundred employees in the reserves. I saw that they seemed to be disappearing, I felt that they were disconnected, or that something was amiss with them and that I couldn’t connect them, and that their managers were helpless. As a human resources professional, I didn’t have the tools to give them.
I realized that just asking how they were doing, sending them packages home, wasn’t enough.
There’s something about the Israeli Defense Partnership method that was a hit for me. They have accumulated knowledge about the specific experiences of this war.
It really calms me down and gives me some peace.
When one of my managers came back from the villa and told me, “Of course I’ll suggest my employee go,” for me, that was the most accurate indication that this was the place to send our employees.
And as a human resources professional, I think it’s my right, and also my duty, to suggest that as many people as possible, especially if I see that something is going wrong with them, to come here and.”
Anat Barkan, VP of Electra Consumer Products
"I realized that just asking how they were doing, sending them packages home, wasn't enough."
Suddenly we found ourselves with two hundred employees in the reserves. I saw that they seemed to be disappearing, I felt that they were disconnected, or that something was amiss with them and that I couldn’t connect them, and that their managers were helpless. As a human resources professional, I didn’t have the tools to give them.
I realized that just asking how they were doing, sending them packages home, wasn’t enough.
There’s something about the Israeli Defense Partnership method that was a hit for me. They have accumulated knowledge about the specific experiences of this war.
It really calms me down and gives me some peace.
When one of my managers came back from the villa and told me, “Of course I’ll suggest my employee go,” for me, that was the most accurate indication that this was the place to send our employees.
And as a human resources professional, I think it’s my right, and also my duty, to suggest that as many people as possible, especially if I see that something is going wrong with them, to come here and.”