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DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, May 12\, the Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies pro
 gram at the Center on Democracy\, Development and the Rule of Law is pleas
 ed to welcome Israeli journalist and writer Amir Tibon to present the 2025
  Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture. Tibon will discuss his latest book\, The G
 ates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal\, Survival\, and Home in Israel's Border
 lands.\n\nThe Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture honors the life of Daniel Pear
 l (Class of '85)\, who was a journalist\, musician\, and family man dedica
 ted to the ideals of peace and humanity. In 2002\, Daniel was kidnapped an
 d killed by terrorists in Pakistan while working as a foreign corresponden
 t for the Wall Street Journal.\n\nThe 2025 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture i
 s presented by the Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies program in partnersh
 ip with the Daniel Pearl Foundation\, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies\
 , and Hillel at Stanford. Advance registration is required.\n\nABOUT THE B
 OOK\n\nA gripping first-person account of how one Israeli grandfather help
 ed rescue two generations of his family on October 7\, 2023—a saga that 
 reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures behind Hamas's attacks tha
 t day.\n\nOn the morning of October 7\, Amir Tibon and his wife were awake
 ned by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz\, a pro
 gressive Israeli community less than a mile from Gaza City. Soon\, they we
 re holding their two young daughters in the family’s reinforced safe roo
 m\, urging them not to cry as gunfire echoed just outside the door. With h
 is cell phone battery running low\, Amir texted his father: “The girls a
 re behaving really well\, but I’m worried they’ll lose patience soon a
 nd Hamas will hear us.”\n\nSome 45 miles north\, Amir’s parents had ju
 st cut short an early morning swim along the shores of Tel Aviv. Now\, the
 y jumped in their Jeep and sped toward Nahal Oz\, armed only with a pistol
  but intent on saving their family at all costs.\n\nIn The Gates of Gaza\,
  Amir Tibon tells this harrowing story in full for the first time. He desc
 ribes his family's ordeal—and the bravery that ultimately led to their r
 escue—alongside the histories of the place they call home and the system
 s of power that have kept them and their neighbors in Gaza in harm’s way
  for decades. \n\nWoven throughout is Tibon's own expertise as a longtime 
 international correspondent\, as well as more than thirty original intervi
 ews: 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 Israe
 li-Palestinian conflict\, and the failed peace process. More than one fami
 ly's odyssey\, The Gates of Gaza is the intimate story of a tight-knit com
 munity and the broader saga of war\, occupation\, and hostility between tw
 o national movements—a conflict that has not yet extinguished the enduri
 ng hope for peace.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nAmir Tibon is an award-winning 
 diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz and the author of The Gates of Gaza: 
 A Story of Betrayal\, Survival\, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands (Little\
 , Brown\, Sept 2024)\, which tells the gripping true story of how he\, alo
 ng 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. The story was featured on 60 Minutes a
 nd the film rights been optioned by Leviathan Productions\, with Avi Issac
 haroff and Lior Raz (Fauda) set to write the script. \n\nTibon has previou
 sly served as the Haaretz’s correspondent in Washington\, D.C.\, and as 
 a senior editor for its English edition. He is the author of The Last Pale
 stinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas (co-authored with Grant Rumle
 y)\, the first-ever biography of the leader of the Palestinian Authority. 
 He\, his wife\, and their two young daughters were evacuated from their ho
 me in Kibbutz Nahal Oz after the October 7 attack\, and are currently livi
 ng in temporary housing in north-central Israel.
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LOCATION:Encina Hall\, Bechtel Conference Center
SUMMARY:Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Featuring Amir Tibon
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