ABSTRACT
The current situation in Israel of ongoing terror attacks poses unique challenges to the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Since September 2000, there have been 20,530 terrorist attacks in Israel and her territories (Israel Defense Force, 2003), with 6,139 civilian and security forces injured and 920 killed. The number of witnesses to each attack and the number of people exposed to graphic images of the scene through the media are manifold. By definition, terrorism is random. Thus, terrorist attacks do not occur daily, at any particular time, or in any particular place. While the threat of terror attacks is continuous with no defined end, people in Israel are continuously being re-exposed to multiple discrete traumatic events that occur randomly. How are people living under such conditions affected?
