Breaking the Silence on Jewish Suicide

In 1995, a young man from one of the kibbutz communities of the Beit She'an Valley in eastern Israel died by his own hand. It was the first recorded suicide in these kibbutzim since they were founded in the 1930s.

Amit Alexander was on military service with the Golani Brigade, an elite unit of the Israeli Defence Forces when he took a gun and shot himself. But to begin with Esther and Gil Alexander were told he had died in an accident while training.