1. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., & Essar, N. (2007). Impact of prolonged war stress on
posttraumatic stress symptoms in hospital personnel. General Hospital
Psychiatry, 29, 262-264.
2. Essar, N., Palgi, Y., Saar, R., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2007). Association between
posttraumatic symptoms and dissociative symptoms in rescue personnel 96
hours after the Hilton hotel bombing in Sinai, Egypt. Journal of Psychological
Trauma, 6, 49-56.
3. Palgi, Y. (2007). Narrative therapy in acute stress disorder. Sihot Dialogue, 21,
190-197. (Hebrew).
4. Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2007). The relations of experiences in World War II
and affect types of subjective well-being with functioning and mortality at oldold age. Gerontology Journal of Aging Studies, 34, 35-62. (Hebrew).
5. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Essar, N., Soffer, H., & Haber, Y. (2008). Posttraumatic
symptoms, dissociation, and depression among rescue personnel 24h after the
Bet-Yehoshua train disaster in Israel: The effect of exposure to dead bodies.
Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine, 23, 461-465.
6. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., & Essar, N. (2008). The impact of exposure to war stress
on hospital staff: A preliminary report. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 42,
422–423.
7. Essar, N., Ben-Ezra, M., Langer, S., & Palgi, Y. (2008). Gender differences in
response to war stress in hospital personnel: Does profession matter? A
preliminary study. European Journal of Psychiatry, 22, 77-83.
8. Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Essar, N., Soffer, H., & Haber, Y. (2009). Posttraumatic
symptoms, dissociation, and depression among rescue personnel 24 hours after
the Bet-Yehoshua train disaster in Israel: The effect of gender. Pre-hospital
and Disaster Medicine, 24, 439–443.
9. Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Langer, S., & Essar, N. (2009). The effect of prolong
exposure to war stress on the comorbidity of PTSD and depression among
hospital personnel Psychiatry Research, 168, 262-264.
10. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Berkley, D., Eldar, H., Glidai, Y., Moshe, L. & Shrira, A.
(2010). Losing my religion: Change in beliefs after sexual assault.
Traumatology, 16, 7-13.
11. Ben-Ezra, Palgi, Y., & Essar, N. (2010). Changes in post-traumatic symptoms
pattern during and after exposure to prolonged, extreme war stress: An
uncontrolled, preliminary report supporting the dose-response model. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 25, 38-41.
12. Essar, N., Palgi, Y., Saar, R., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2010). Pre-Traumatic Vaccination
Intervention: can dissociative symptoms be reduced? Pre-hospital and
Disaster Medicine, 25, 278-284.
13. Palgi, Y., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2010). Back to the future: Narrative treatment for
acute stress disorder in the Case of Paramedic Mr. G. Pragmatic Case Studies
in Psychotherapy, 6, 1-26. (26 pages). (a similar version of this paper was
published in Hebrew. See item number 9).
14. Palgi, Y., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2010). Prepared and still surprised. Pragmatic Case
Studies in Psychotherapy, 6, 43-48.
15. Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). The predicament of time near the end of life:
Time perspective trajectories of life satisfaction among the old-old. Aging and
Mental Health, 14, 577-586.
16. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Shmotkin, D., & Kave, G. (2010).
Delineating terminal change in subjective well-being and subjective health. Journal of
Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. 65B, 61-64.
17. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2010). Families of Holocaust survivors. In
Y. Brick, & A. Lowenstein The elderly and the family: Multi-generational aspects of
aging (pp. 129-145). Jerusalem: Eshel (Hebrew).
18. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). Do Holocaust
survivors show increased vulnerability or resilience to post-Holocaust cumulative
adversity? Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23, 367-375.
19. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Wolf, J.J., Haber, Y., Goldary, O., Shacham-Shmueli, E., &
Ben-Ezra, M., (2010). The positivity ratio and functioning under stress. Stress and
Health.
20. Soffer, Y., Goldberg, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Essar, N., & Bar-Dayan, Y.
(2010). Relationship between demographic and educational parameters with
perceptions and knowledge and with earthquake mitigation in Israel. Disasters: The
Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management.
Accepted for Publication
21. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A. (in press). Late Effect of the Second Lebanon
War: Level of Exposure and Rates of Comorbidity of Posttraumatic Stress
symptoms and Depressive symptoms Among Israelis from Northern and
Center Israel. European Journal of Psychiatry.
22. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Abrahami, Y., Hodedi, E., Haber, Y., Wolf,
J.J., Goldary, O., & Shacham-Shmueli, E. (in press). The association between
previous psychological trauma and mental health among gastric cancer
patients. European Journal of Psychietry.
23. Ben-Ezra, M., Shrira, A., Wolf, J.J., & Palgi, Y. (in press). Psychosomatic
symptoms among hospital personnel during the Gaza war: A repeated cross
sectional study. The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences.
24. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Essar, N., Haber, Y., Wolf, J.J., Shacham-Shmueli, E., &
Ben-Ezra, M. (in press). Comorbidity of posttraumatic stress and depression
among gastric cancer patients. European Journal of Oncology Nursing.
25. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (in press). Offspring of
Holocaust survivors reaching midlife: Evidence for paradoxes in functional
status from the SHARE study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research,
Practice, and Policy.
26. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (in press). General resilience
and specific vulnerabilities in elderly with past trauma: Functioning and
mortality of Holocaust survivors. Loss and Trauma.
27. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kave, G., & Shmotkin, D. (under
revision). For better and for worse: The relationship between future expectations and
functioning in the second half of life. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences
28. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., Goldberg, S., & Palgi, Y. (in press). Resilience and
vulnerability among aging Holocaust survivors and their families: An
intergenerational overview. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 9.
29. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (In press) A Framework for addressing
Lingering Trauma in Old-Old Age: The Holocaust as a paradigm. In L. Poon, & J.
Cohen-Mansfield, (Eds.), Understanding well-being in the oldest-old. Cabmridge
University Press.
Other Publications
1. Ben-Ezra, M. & Palgi, Y. (2007). Earliest evidence for malingering: There is no
smoke without fire. British Journal of Psychiatry. Retrieved May 2, 2007,
from http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/eletters/190/1/81-a#3546.
2. Essar, N., Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., & Barkavi-Shani, M. (2008). Exposure therapy
paranoid anxiety: A case report. British Journal of Psychiatry. Retrieved for
June 5, 2007, from http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/eletters/190/1/81-a#19862.
1. Palgi, Y. (2002). The Cypress Tree Man. Am Oved Publication House, Tel-Aviv.
(186 pages). (Hebrew).
2. Palgi, Y. (2005). The Last Metz. Keter Publication House, Jerusalem. (256 pages).
(Hebrew).