וְנָתְנוּ עַל־צִיצִת הַכָּנָף פְּתִיל תְּכֵלֶת
Numbers 15:38 · a thread of blue, on the corner of the garment
PTIL makes that thread, and a small piece of metal that pins it to any shirt, jacket or bag. You wear it for the people in Israel still carrying what happened. What you pay pays for their treatment.
פְּתִילthe thread named in the verse·Post-Trauma·Israel
One name, read three ways. The thread of the verse, the injury it is worn for, and the country carrying it.
What it isכָּנָף
Nothing is sewn and nothing is altered. It goes on and comes off in a few seconds, and it works on anything you already own.
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Two blue threads and one cast metal piece. No box, no packaging, letter post.
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The same way an earring goes on. A small pin pushes through the fabric and a disc slides on from behind to hold it there. No sewing, no damage, no special garment. Any corner or edge of anything you wear.
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One thread is yours. The other you tie onto someone else, and they do the same for somebody after them. That is how it is meant to travel.
The argumentטַעֲנָה
Start with the verse as it is written, then look at what later generations built on top of it. Both matter. They are not the same thing — and anyone can read the line and compare the two.
Say the name once and you have said three things. פְּתִיל — the cord itself. Post-Trauma. Israel. One name, three meanings. That is not a coincidence. It is the whole idea, in four letters.
One thread of blue on a corner. Read plainly, that is what the verse asks for, and that is what this is. It is not rabbinic tzitzit and does not replace it. The full argument — and every objection published against it, with a reply underneath — is in the journal.
Who we areפְּתִיל
PTIL is a small group of people who think one line of the Torah deserves to be seen again, and that the waiting lists for trauma care in Israel are too long. The thread is where those two things meet: you wear it, and your purchase helps pay the queue down.
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One thread and one piece of metal, made to order, numbered and registered. It pins on in seconds, comes off in seconds, and looks like nothing else.
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If you object to any of this, write to us. Serious objections are published here in full, under your name if you want it, with our reply underneath — and our reply can lose.
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A fixed amount from every unit goes to trauma treatment in Israel. The exact amount, the receiving organisation and the running total are published every quarter.
Still to be filled in here: the registered legal entity, the receiving organisation, and the names of the people who review the halachic replies. None of the three is signed yet, and this page will name all of them the moment they are, rather than describing them vaguely in the meantime.
The collectionאוֹסֶף
Cut and cast in solid metal, finished by hand. A post and clutch on the back, a pierced lug at the bottom, and one blue thread through it.
The ring that says nothing, and lets the thread say it.
Hebrew cut as the piece itself.
Things you can hold in a hand.
Made with the communities they belong to.
Note: the pieces are shown as drawn placeholders. Photographed product shots replace them per piece and metal once the jeweller delivers.
Making one for your community, your unit or your shul? Commission a piece.
Make your ownבְּחִירָה
Pick the piece, the metal, the thread and how far it hangs. Made to order, numbered, registered to you.
Piece
Esh SheliMetal
Sterling silverThread
CertifiedLength
Standard, 20cmThe colourתְּכֵלֶת
תְּכֵלֶת
Techelet
The verse names a colour, not just a thread. Techelet came from a sea snail on this coast, and the knowledge of which snail was lost for around thirteen hundred years.
It was found again in the last century. Every thread we use is dyed by מכון התכלת — the Techelet Institute — from the murex snail, and every label says which of the three you are holding.
מכון התכלת · NUMBERED
Murex-dyed thread from the institute, numbered and registered against the serial of your piece.
₪249numbered and registered
מכון התכלת · CERTIFIED
The institute's thread as it is supplied for tzitzit, with its certificate attached to the order.
₪189with certificate
מכון התכלת · UNREGISTERED
The same dyed thread, cut short, without a certificate or a serial. Made to be handed to someone and tied on.
₪25free at every counter
Supply note: the agreement with מכון התכלת is not signed yet. Prices, volumes and what the certificate says will be corrected here the moment it is.
Every order holds two threadsמַתָּנָה
Someone ties the first one on for you. You tie the second one onto somebody else — a friend, a soldier, anyone holding on. Register both, and you can see where they have travelled.
Where it goesרְפוּאָה
17,000
Nearly 26,000 wounded soldiers and security personnel have entered the Defence Ministry's rehabilitation system since October 2023, and about 65 per cent of them — roughly 17,000 people — are coping with psychological distress or post-trauma. In July 2026 the government approved an overhaul of that system after the ministry warned it could collapse under the load. The plan arrived. Capacity has not caught up with it. Every thread and every piece pays that queue down, and the number is published every quarter.
26,000
wounded soldiers and security personnel in the Defence Ministry rehabilitation system by July 2026
Defence Ministry Rehabilitation Division, July 202665%
of them coping with psychological distress or post-trauma — roughly 17,000 people
Rehabilitation Division figures, July 20263 million
Israelis carrying symptoms of trauma, anxiety or depression since 7 October, on the State Comptroller's estimate
State Comptroller, February 20251 million
of them expected to seek treatment for it in the years ahead
State Comptroller, February 202512%
of reservists who served in Gaza report multiple post-traumatic symptoms
Tel Aviv University, Journal of Psychiatric Research, May 2025471%
rise in demand for short-term mental-health treatment in 2024, with close to 400,000 patients treated
Health Ministry, reported 2025₪2b
a year, the cost of the rehabilitation overhaul the government approved on 16 July 2026
Government decision, 16 July 2026₪541m
added to public mental-health services across 2025 and 2026 — against a caseload counted in the millions
Government decision, reported 2025Every figure above links to its source. Where sources disagree we use the lower number and say so: one September 2025 report put the Rehabilitation Division caseload at 81,700 people, including 31,000 psychological cases, on a broader count that includes earlier wars; the ₪2 billion a year is reported elsewhere as up to ₪2.5 billion. Figures we could not source are not on this page, and we have no headcount for bereaved families or returned hostages in treatment, so we do not give one.
Further reading
The funding commitment is a fixed amount per unit sold, not a share of proceeds. The figure is inserted here once the receiving organisation agreement is signed.
11 November 2026
The day the world already stops for the people war left behind. The poppy remembers the dead. The thread holds the living.
Journalמַחֲלוֹקֶת
Including the ones against us. Every serious objection is published here in full, with a reply underneath it.