A Quiet Space on Campus: Afeka’s Ongoing Commitment to Reservists

The rate of reserve service at Afeka is unprecedented: About 42% of students have been called up since the beginning of the war, many of them for lengthy stints. Behind these statistics are young people who bear mental strain, academic challenges, and the long-term effects of difficult experiences.

Even after fighting is over, many reservists struggle to return to daily routine at home, work, and academia. Afeka understands the depth of the challenge facing them. Many carry with them terrible sights, painful memories, traumas and invisible wounds that aren’t always obvious. This reality calls for broad responsibility: not just providing guidance and support to the reservists themselves, but also training the entire academic community, faculty and students, to identify distress, ask, show interest, and offer help in a sensitive and attentive manner.

As part of this commitment, and thanks to a generous donation, Afeka will establish a “Quiet Tent” on campus. A place that will serve as a quiet, safe space, allowing for personal coaching, mind-body workshops, and resilience activities for reservists past, present, and future and their families, as well as for anyone who bears the effects of the war.