Date
Event Time
12:00 PM
Location
Online
Event Details
January 8, 2025
12:00pm to 12:45pm PT
Lee Yaron, Haaretz’s investigative journalist, discusses her new book, 10/7: One Hundred Human Stories.
This book tells the stories of 100 civilians who were slaughtered on October 7th. Join author and Haaretz investigative journalist Lee Yaron in conversation with AJU President Jeffrey Herbst about her experience conducting interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond. Yaron’s work profiles victims from a wide range of communities, capturing the fullness of their lives—from left-wing kibbutzniks and free-spirited festivalgoers to radical right-wing activists, Bedouins, Israeli Arabs, and immigrant workers from Thailand and Nepal.
Lee Yaron has been a journalist with Haaretz for nearly a decade. The winner of the 2022 Yitzhak Livni “Knight” Award for Free Speech in Media, her investigative reporting has resulted in the founding of state-level commissions and the changing of substantial bodies of Israeli policy and law. She is an elected member-representative of the Executive Committee of the Union of Israeli Journalists and has an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University’s Climate School and School of International and Public Affairs.
Dr. Jeffrey Herbst, the fourth president of American Jewish University (AJU), is an advocate for academic innovation. His leadership at AJU includes fostering growth in the Maas Center for Jewish Journeys, expanding the Maven digital platform, and improving the Brandeis-Bardin Campus. Formerly, he served as president and CEO of the Newseum and the Newseum Institute in Washington, DC. Notable achievements include successfully overseeing a half billion-dollar fundraising campaign, implementing a university-wide strategic plan, and enhancing educational programming at Colgate University, where he was president from 2010 to 2015. Dr. Herbst holds a summa cum laude bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, as well as a master’s and doctorate in political science from Yale University. He is the author of the award-winning “States and Power in Africa” and, with several co-authors, the just-published “Making Africa Work.” In addition to many books and articles, he has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many other digital and print publications around the world.