Resilience in the face of captivity

MAITLAND, Fla. -Speaking to a packed audience at a Jewish National Fund event in Maitland on Oct. 29, 2025, Glenn Cohen, former Mossad chief psychologist, drew from decades of elite service to teach lessons on survival, resilience, and emotional strength. The message he shared was as harrowing as it was uplifting: the human spirit can endure the unimaginable.

Cohen, who joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1982 and graduated from the Israel Air Force Academy as a rescue pilot, went on to spend 25 years in Israel's Mossad. "Imagine what it is like to be deep undercover in a parallel universe," h...