Lee Yaron
Israel
Born in Tel Aviv in 1994, Lee Yaron has written for Israel’s oldest newspaper Haaretz for more than ten years. She is known for her investigative reporting into subjects like corruption, poverty, and migration. Today, she is the paper’s climate correspondent and she also reports from the United States, where she sometimes lives. In addition, she writes and stages satirical plays.
For Israel, 7. Oktober, Lee Yaron spoke with over 100 survivors of the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 and with their family members. Lee Yaron also had access to transcriptions of telephone calls and texts from the final hours of nearly 1,200 victims. Yaron’s extensive reconstruction of this dark day for Israel and Jews around the world allows the interviewees to speak at length and creates a literary memorial for the victims. Furthermore, she shows the diversity of those affected—victims and survivors—and demonstrates how the attacks further fractured an already polarized Israeli society. «If you care about Israel, and you care about Palestine, there is no more important book to read», wrote Pulitzer prize winner Kai Bird, «a masterpiece of journalism, and of what can only be called humanism» wrote Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker.
10/7: 100 Human Stories. 2024
Lee Yaron wanted to travel from Israel, which is currently not possible. The events are to take place hybrid; if possible, we will connect Lee Yaron via Zoom. As the security situation in Israel is currently very tense, it is possible that the events will not be able to take place at short notice or will have to be canceled early.
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