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Amir Tibon: “The Gates of Gaza”

September 22, 2024 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Amram Scholar Series at Washington Hebrew Congregation kicks off the 2024-2025 season with a vital, timely story of efforts to help rebuild Kibbutz Nahal Oz following October 7th. This event is presented in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, the Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and Temple Rodef Shalom.

Sunday, September 22
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Washington Hebrew Congregation
3935 Macomb Street NW
Washington, DC 20016

About the Book
The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands
By Amir Tibon

The gripping true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023 by Tibon’s own father — an incredible tale of survival that also reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures that led to Hamas’s attacks that day.

Woven throughout is Tibon’s own expertise as a longtime international correspondent, as well as more than thirty original interviews: with residents of his kibbutz, with the Israeli soldiers who helped to wrest it from the hands of Hamas, and with experts on Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the failed peace process. More than one family’s odyssey, The Gates of Gaza is the intimate story of a tight-knit community and the broader saga of war, occupation, and hostility between two national movements—a conflict that has not yet extinguished the enduring hope for peace.

About the Author
Amir Tibon is an award-win­ning Israeli jour­nal­ist who cov­ers diplo­mat­ic affairs for Haaretz, Israel’s news­pa­per of record. His writ­ing on Israel and the Mid­dle East has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York­er, For­eign Affairs and oth­er lead­ing U.S. pub­li­ca­tions. He and his fam­i­ly sur­vived the Octo­ber 7 Hamas attack on Kib­butz Nahal Oz, a small com­mu­ni­ty on the Israel-Gaza bor­der where they had made their home.

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