LEE YARON

Haaretz Journalist

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Author of 10/7: 100 Human Stories

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"The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home"

“If you care about Israel, and you care about Palestine, there is no more important book to read than 10/7.”

—Kai Bird

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, American Prometheus, and The Good Spy, director of the Leon Levy Center

"A masterpiece of journalism, and of what can only be called humanism.”

—Adam Gopnik

Essayist, staff writer for The New Yorker

“10/7 is a shocking but heartfelt book, whose empathy is the only way forward.”

—Nicole Krauss

Author of History of Love, Great House, Forest Dark, and To Be A Man

"An extraordinary and deeply moving work of reporting about a day whose horrors will haunt Jews for the rest of our lives.”

—Peter Beinart

Author of The Crisis of Zionism and The Icarus Syndrome

“Framed as a journalist’s first draft of history, this book is actually an elegy for those murdered, assaulted, and kidnapped on October 7.”

—Noah Feldman

Author of Scorpions and To Be A Jew Today

"The book's power lies in its ability to contextualize the victims' experiences within the broader scope of their familial trajectories, at the intersection of investigative journalism and oral history.”

—Le Monde

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Climate Correspondent, Haaretz, Israel’s oldest and most award-winning newspaper
Founder, Green Idea, the Middle East's first journalist training program dedicated to climate coverage
Elected Representative, Executive Committee, the Union of Journalists in Israel
Winner of the 2022 Yitzhak Livni “Knight” Award for Free Speech in Media, for "exceptional professionalism, relentless determination, and an unswerving pursuit of the truth"
Director and Playwright, Kishta, a documentary satire on Knesset proceedings with an all-refugee cast (Tzavta Theatre, Tel Aviv)
Director, Good Energies, a documentary satire on governmental handling of gas and oil revenues (Theatronetto Festival, Jaffa)
Host, Tel Aviv 360, Tel Aviv University podcast
Environmental Fellow, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs and the Climate School
Co-Founder, DOCU-CLIMATE, Docaviv Film Festival