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.