Up until recently, questions about the day after the Israel-Hamas War ends have included: Who will rule Gaza? Who will be responsible for rebuilding ruined, rubble-ridden areas? Who will feed the starving population? Who will provide employment? How many Gazan workers will be permitted to enter Israel? Who will educate the children of Gaza? And who will control the content of their textbooks?

Of course, there are many more questions. But now, some of the above questions, plus others, also refer to what happens in Israel the day after a permanent ceasefire between it and Iran becomes a reality.

Perhaps the Americans will help rebuild the Iranian economy as they did with Germany and Japan after the Second World War.

Israel’s economy, we have been led to believe, is sound. But it’s not sound enough to pay the real value of compensation to which tens of thousands of residents of destroyed or badly damaged buildings are entitled, nor for the cost of repairing or rebuilding public buildings or commercial centers.

Nor is there enough to pay for the rehabilitation of soldiers wounded and civilians injured in either war. And what about compensation for people who have lost their jobs because their places of employment closed down or because they were illegally dismissed by their employers who were opposed to the time spent away from the job while doing more than a fair share of reserve duty in the army?

For the time being, Israelis have demonstrated amazing stoicism, and survivors of missile crashes into their buildings – even after losing their most precious possessions – have taken their losses in their stride and are simply thankful for being alive and unscathed.

The fact that they are physically uninjured does not mean that they will not suffer some delayed trauma, and the treatment for this must also be included in a list of national priorities.