On Monday afternoon, while driving my car through the streets of Tel Aviv, I happened to turn on the radio right as an hourly news bulletin began. The first news item was about a reservist who committed suicide, leaving behind a wife and four children – the fifth case of a soldier taking his own life in the past four weeks.

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