Lee Yaron
Lee Yaron
Lee Yaron is an award-winning journalist and public speaker with nearly a decade of experience at Haaretz, one of Israel’s most respected newspapers. Her reporting has led to the establishment of state-level commissions and changes in Israeli policy and law, earning her the 2022 Yitzhak Livni “Knight” Award for Free Speech in Media. She also serves as an elected member-representative on the Executive Committee of the Union of Israeli Journalists.
She is a highly sought-after speaker on Israeli affairs and journalism, with a diverse portfolio of speaking engagements across the United States, Europe, and Israel. Her expertise has been showcased on major American television networks, including Good Morning America, Morning Joe, CNN, and MSNBC, as well as prominent European channels like France 24 and German ARD prime time.
Yaron’s new book, 10/7: 100 Human Stories, provides a definitive account of the October 7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home. Drawing from extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders, Yaron offers readers a ground-level view of Israel and the conflict. Already a bestseller in Europe, the book is set for release in multiple languages, including English, French, German and Dutch.
Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker praised it as “A masterpiece of journalism, and of what can only be called humanism.” The Jerusalem Post hailed it as “the most expansive account yet of the day,” while The Forward called it a “vital book for Jews and non-Jews, for Israelis and Palestinians.” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird declared, “There is no more important book to read than 10/7.“
Yaron’s work in English has been featured in The Atlantic, The Forward, Tablet, New York Magazine, and Haaretz. She has appeared as a television panelist and solo guest on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, and CNN.
She is also the founder of “Green Idea,” the Middle East’s first journalist-training program dedicated to climate coverage, demonstrating her commitment to advancing important causes through media and education. She has an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University’s Climate School and School of International and Public Affairs. Born in Tel Aviv, she splits her time between her native city and New York.
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An Evening with Lee Yaron
Lee’s talks cover a range of topics including the complexities of Israeli politics, the role of journalism in conflict zones, and the impact of recent events on Israeli society. This diverse range of venues demonstrates Lee’s ability to engage with varied audiences, from academic circles to community groups, on crucial topics related to Israel and journalism.
To view a complete list of selected articles by Lee Yaron, visit her website.
“Remembering the Oct. 7 attack on Israel 1 year later”
“10/7 ADAPTED EXCERPT: The One Year of Shiva”
“‘We Are Dying of Fear’: A Lost Generation, Israeli and Palestinian, Born Into Unremitting Violence”
“A Naked Deparation to Be Seen”
Why Israel’s Outgoing Environment Tsar Finally Lost Her Optimism
Israel’s Defense Ministry Warns Climate Crisis Will Lead to Marked Rise in Deaths
UN Climate Panel Urges ‘Drastic Measures’ to Limit Global Warming
Extreme Heat Waves, Floods and Weakened Security: Israel’s Grim Climate Forecast for 2050
Israel’s New Gov’t Goes Greener Than Predecessor With Ambitious Environmental Agenda
Praise for 10/7
“10/7 is the most expansive account yet of the day, capturing the diversity of the victims and survivors and, by extension, of Israel as a whole.”
— The Jerusalem Post
“Lee Yaron’s courageous book is a literary Shiva, a mourning for all those innocents who died on October 7. It is, as she writes, ‘a defense against distortion, a defense against forgetting.’…These stories impart a dose of tough, anguished history about all the wars since 1948 and all the missed opportunities for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. If you care about Israel, and you care about Palestine, there is no more important book to read than 10/7.”
—Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, American Prometheus, and The Good Spy, director of the Leon Levy Center
“In this extraordinary and uniquely timely work, Lee Yaron gives names, faces, and histories to the victims of the pogrom of 10/7, narrating the circumstances of their deaths and the background of their lives with a calm precision almost unbearable to read, while still asking us to recognize ‘the claims, the griefs, and the humanity’ of those on the other side. A masterpiece of journalism, and of what can only be called humanism.”
—Adam Gopnik, author of The Real Work
“10/7 is a shocking but heartfelt book, whose empathy is the only way forward.”
—Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love, Great House, Forest Dark, and To Be A Man
“Framed as a journalist’s first draft of history, this book is actually an elegy for those murdered, assaulted, and kidnapped on October 7. In the tradition of the biblical Book of Lamentations, Yaron deploys deceptively simple descriptive language to convey events terrible beyond imagining. The book deserves to be read as mourning as much as reportage.”
—Noah Feldman, author of Scorpions and To Be A Jew Today
“Wisely appreciating that the preciousness of life lays in our personal stories, and that easy answers should be resisted in the face of human tragedy, Lee Yaron offers a painstakingly detailed, compassionately rendered must-read for anyone who genuinely seeks a more humane future.”
—Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, president of The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL), cofounder and executive editor of TheWisdomDaily.com
“They finally have a name, an existence, a history. We can almost hear their voices. Lee Yaron has done extraordinary work, as her book stands as a monument to both the living and the dead. It is the first book that recounts, almost minute by minute and kibbutz by kibbutz, the horrors that unfolded from 6:30 that morning…A remarkable investigation that brings the victims to life through countless testimonies that Yaron collected, giving life and flesh to dozens of families.”
—Anne Sinclair, author of My Grandfather’s Gallery and In The Shadow of ParisBook This Speaker
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