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A new book about Oct. 7 aims to depict the humanity behind the horror

(JTA) - Lee Yaron was in New York on Oct. 7, doing a fellowship at Columbia University, when news broke of an unimaginable attack on southern Israel by Hamas. Like many Israelis living abroad, she felt helpless and frustrated. Unlike most Israelis, she is a journalist, a longtime contributor to the Israeli daily Haaretz, and she had an outlet for her fear and anger.

Within days, she was on a plane to Israel, where she spent the next four months interviewing survivors, first-responders and eyewitnesses to the attacks. The result is "10/7: 100 Human Stories," a book that documents perhaps the si...

 

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