"Yaron writes starkly about the horrors perpetuated, giving us a shattering glimpse into that morning...The rawness of that day is palpable on every page."
—Jewish Book Council, National Jewish Book Awards 2024 Jewish Book of the Year winner
“This definitive account of the attacks of October 7—partly an oral history and partly a work of investigative journalism—fills the spaces between the facts of the day with the thoughts, fears, and memories of people who lived it. The book returns the narrative to the people who experienced it, without an agenda or the filters of politics, military operations, or media noise.”
—The Natan Fund, Winter 2025 Notable Book Award winner
"In these stories, the violence of that day is a rupture in reality, indiscriminate and unforgiving."
—The Atlantic
“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
“Haunting eyewitness accounts of one of the decade’s most catastrophic events.”
—Kirkus
"Vital for Jews and non-Jews, for Israelis and Palestinians, a book that will horrify but will also help us remember."
—The Forward
“Lee Yaron’s courageous book is a literary Shiva, a mourning for all those innocents who died on October 7…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
"It's not about politics. It's not about military strategy. It's about the people who Hamas erased. For people looking for a way to commemorate this horrible day."
—Bari Weiss
"Such a compelling book, telling the stories of 100 people who had come together in the most horrific of ways on that day."
—CNN
"A new book chronicles that day—and the lives of those affected."
—Good Morning America
"An important new book."
—Morning Joe, MSNBC
“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 Paris
“At the crossroads of investigative journalism and 'oral history,' the text is a record of what happened [on 10/7], but its strength lies in how it places the ordeal of the victims within the longer-term context of their individual and family trajectories. What's so striking, when reading, is precisely this ancestral memory borne by the men and women the attackers targeted."
—Le Monde
“The intertwined stories of victims and survivors provide the gripping, detailed source material for Lee Yaron’s unflinching and meticulous reconstruction of the day of October 7, 2023 as it unfolded in numerous places throughout Israel…Yaron endows each of those places with a history, even a sociology, which helps to tell the larger story of the state of Israel itself; while each victim is granted the honor of a biography that reaches back across the decades and generations, to embrace familial destinies marked by exile and the tragic legacy of Jewish persecution in the 20th century.”
—Télérama Magazine
“Yaron’s investigation is carried out on a human level, tracing the victims' individual and family paths as far as possible. We realize how much these paths are haunted by violence and hatred, sometimes spanning generations…A history book for anyone who wants to understand this piece of land beyond the slogan.”
—Marc Weitzmann, France Culture
"10/7 is not just an account of that day of desolation. Yaron traces lives, those of the victims and those who were with them, and also family histories...As a committed journalist, she does not hesitate to take an uncompromising look at Israeli society, its governments, its ways of functioning, its relationship with its neighbors, particularly the Palestinians.”
—Les Echos
