LEE YARON – 10/7: 100 HUMAN STORIES

The definitive account of the infamous massacre, 10/7 takes the stories of 100 everyday civilians who were slaughtered that day and uses them to tell the history of Israel and of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Having spent the past year conducting extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond, Lee Yaron profiles victims from a wide range of communities, depicting the fullness of their lives, not just their final moments. Hear her powerful perspective on the lives of the victims, who run the gamut from left-wing kibbutzniks and Burning Man-esque revelers to radical right-wingers, from Bedouins and Israeli Arabs to Thai and Nepalese workers, Holocaust survivors to refugees from Ukraine and Russia, along with her views on all the wars since 1948 and all the missed opportunities for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. 

Yaron appears in conversation with Chanan Tigay, Editor-in-Chief of J. The Jewish News of Northern California.

Lee Yaron has been a journalist with Ha’aretz, Israel’s oldest and most award-winning newspaper, for nearly a decade. Her investigative reporting has resulted in the founding of state-level commissions and the changing of substantial bodies of Israeli policy and law. She is an elected member-representative of the Executive Committee of the Union of Israeli Journalists. She has also written and directed acclaimed theater productions notable for their use of found materials, including official governmental texts, to bring attention to marginalized communities both in Israel and throughout the Middle East. Born in Tel Aviv, Yaron splits her time between her native city and New York. 

“10/7 is a shocking but heartfelt book, whose empathy is the only way forward.”
―Nicole Krauss, author of History of Love and Great House 

“Framed as a journalist’s first draft of history, this book is actually an elegy for those murdered, assaulted, and kidnapped on October 7. In the tradition of the biblical Book of Lamentations, Yaron deploys deceptively simple descriptive language to convey events terrible beyond imagining. The book deserves to be read as mourning as much as reportage.”
―Noah Feldman, author of To Be A Jew Today

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