10/7 100 Human Stories
10/7 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron, published by St. Martin’s Publishing Group on September 24, 2024, presents a detailed account of the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel. This edition, comprising 288 pages, delves into the narratives of over 100 victims and their communities, offering a comprehensive perspective on one of the most devastating terror attacks in modern history. Through extensive interviews with survivors, bereaved families, and first responders, Yaron captures the diverse backgrounds of those affected, from kibbutzniks to guest workers, highlighting the human impact of this tragedy.
Readers will find that 10/7 not only chronicles the events of that fateful day but also provides a broader context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its historical roots. Each chapter begins with a community portrait, interweaving personal stories with political analysis to explore the complexities of Israeli society and the ramifications of the attacks. This work aims to honor the memories of the victims while revealing the deeper implications of the violence, extending beyond the immediate tragedy to reflect on the political landscape shaped during the Netanyahu era.
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards’ 2024 Jewish Book of the Year and The Natan Fund’s Winter 2025 Notable Book Award!
The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.
On October 7, 2023—the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot—the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air, militants indiscriminately massacred civilians in what became one of the worst terror attacks in modern history, and the most lethal day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
A radically passionate work of investigative journalism and political critique by acclaimed Haaretz reporter Lee Yaron, 10/7 chronicles the massacre that ignited a war through the stories of more than 100 civilians. These stories are the products of extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond. The victims run the gamut from left-wing kibbutzniks and Burning Man-esque partiers to radical right-wingers, from Bedouins and Israeli Arabs to Thai and Nepalese guest workers, peace activists, elderly Holocaust survivors, refugees from Ukraine and Russia, pregnant women, and babies.
At a time when people are seeking a deeper understanding of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how internal political turmoil in Israel has affected it, they predominantly encounter perspectives from the powerful—from politicians and military officers. 10/7 takes a fresh approach, offering answers through the stories of everyday people, those who lived tenuously on the border with Gaza.
Yaron profiles victims from a wide range of communities—depicting the fullness of their lives, not just their final moments—to honor their memories and reveal the way the attack ripped open Israeli society and put the entire Middle East on the precipice of disaster. Each chapter begins with a portrait of a community, interweaving history with broader political analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to provide context for the narratives that follow. Ultimately, 10/7 shows that the tragedy is much greater than the violence of the attacks, and in fact extends back through the entire Netanyahu era, which propagated a false image of Israel as a technologically advanced, militarily formidable powerhouse so essential to the region that it could continue to ignore and undermine Palestinian statehood indefinitely.
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