This week in Israel, it’s been all about the hostages. Every evening Israelis gather around the television, or their phones, to see who is coming out, how they are, and speculating about what will happen next.

The ceasefire is a strange kind of quiet in the middle of a storm – like the eye of a hurricane. There are no missile attacks, reserve soldiers come for a much-needed visit home, families get to hug their loved ones, but no-one can relax or forget that this war is likely to erupt as soon as the trickle of hostages is over.

There’s no doubt that seeing these women and children come home is a source of enormous light for a small, interconnected nation where everyone knows everyone, but it’s overshadowed by the hostages that still remain, and the awful emerging stories of what they suffered at the hands of Hamas during their long days of captivity.

How will they recover? It’s the question we all ask ourselves.

No country in the world has had to deal with this number of civilian hostages, so Israel has had to write the book. To get a picture of what the country plans to do to help the hostages mend from their ordeal, we spoke to Dr. Hagai Levine – the man at the heart of the rehabilitation effort.