Mission in Captivity: One Woman's Struggle to Survive and Save Her Family in Gaza

Winner of the 2026 Bernstein Prize

A powerful, firsthand account of a woman’s fifty-day struggle to protect three generations of her family while held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

For fifty days, Dr. Shoshan Haran was held captive alongside her family—including her three-year-old granddaughter—under the constant threat of terrorists and the horror of IDF bombardments.

After their release, words began to pour out of her. Mission in Captivity is a story of physical and psychological survival in a ...