Ir Miklat · עיר מקלט
The healing village
The Torah commands cities of refuge: places a person runs to when the world has become unsurvivable, where they are protected rather than processed. We are proposing to build one, for trauma.
What it actually is
A residential village for post-traumatic stress. Not a ward and not a retreat weekend — somewhere a soldier, a reservist, a survivor or a civilian can live for as long as the work takes, with clinicians, with land to work, with animals, and with music treated as medicine rather than as atmosphere. Open year-round, because trauma has no season and no waiting list that makes sense.
Why music is the treatment, not the decoration
Anyone who has sat with a veteran knows the hour when talking stops working. Music reaches people in the state where language has already failed — it is the oldest trauma medicine there is, it is the reason the Levites sang, and in supervised psychedelic therapy the music is not background to the session, it is the structure of the session. The village is designed around that fact, with musicians in residence rather than booked.
The land — ten acres, already ours
This is not a plan to acquire land. The land is acquired. Ten acres at Sde Trumot, in the Beit She'an valley beneath Mount Gilboa, are held by the DAO — not by any individual, including the candidate who put them in. That is the point of routing it through a DAO: no single person can quietly take it back out. The members vote.
What we intend to do with it is give it away. The ten acres are offered to the State of Israel for a healing centre for soldiers — a donation, not a sale and not a lease-back. Yeshivas Geulas Shaul will stand on the same ground.
Owned is done. Donated is not.
Be clear about which half is finished. The acquisition is complete and the title is held. Transferring land to the State is a separate legal process — registration, the Israel Land Authority, and a ministry that has to agree to receive it — and we are at the beginning of that. Anyone who tells you a village is standing there today is telling you a story.
On Knesset letterhead
The Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, on the wellness centre
We are working together moving forward plans for a sustainable wellness center on their land in Sde'i Trumot.
MK Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
Written on behalf of Trippy.VC and its founders Harry Rozenberg and Yitz Klein, about providing soldiers and the general population access to alternative therapies for PTSD and trauma. It is the clearest outside confirmation that the land at Sde Trumot and the wellness centre on it are real and are being worked on with people inside the Knesset.
Read both for what they are. The letter concerns Trippy.VC and the wellness centre project, and the photograph records a meeting. Neither is an endorsement of this party, of its platform, or of any candidate standing for it. MK Vaturi sits with Likud and wrote about a healing centre, not an election; the Prime Minister has endorsed no party but his own. We publish them because they corroborate the land and the work, and for no other reason.
This needs seats before it needs an architect.
Every part of it goes through a ministry that currently has no reason to say yes.