Amir Tibon is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, and the author of The Last Palestinian: the rise and reign of Mahmoud Abbas (co-authored with Grant Rumley), the first-ever biography of the leader of the Palestinian Authority. From 2017–2020, Tibon was based in Washington, DC, as a foreign correspondent for Haaretz, and he also has served as a senior editor for the newspaper’s English edition. He, his wife, and their two young daughters are former residents of Kibbutz Nahal Oz but are currently living as internal refugees in northern Israel.

‘Eloquent … scathing … A wide-ranging survey of Israeli history expressed through the drama of a single day and the claustrophobic politics of a small country … [Tibon] reports events with admirable calm, where his own peril is concerned, and cool fury directed at the failures of his country’s leaders … Given what Tibon personally endured — the friends killed and kidnapped by Hamas — he shows an impressive capacity for analytical detachment … There is a readership that recognises the validity of conflicting perspectives; that doesn’t want complex events distilled into easy parables of moral righteousness. That audience, despairing of the way so much Middle East coverage is drained of historical context and nuance, will find some solace in The Gates of Gaza.’

Amir Tibon is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, and the author of The Last Palestinian: the rise and reign of Mahmoud Abbas (co-authored with Grant Rumley), the first-ever biography of the leader of the Palestinian Authority. From 2017–2020, Tibon was based in Washington, DC, as a foreign correspondent for Haaretz, and he also has served as a senior editor for the newspaper’s English edition. He, his wife, and their two young daughters are former residents of Kibbutz Nahal Oz but are currently living as internal refugees in northern Israel.

‘Eloquent … scathing … A wide-ranging survey of Israeli history expressed through the drama of a single day and the claustrophobic politics of a small country … [Tibon] reports events with admirable calm, where his own peril is concerned, and cool fury directed at the failures of his country’s leaders … Given what Tibon personally endured — the friends killed and kidnapped by Hamas — he shows an impressive capacity for analytical detachment … There is a readership that recognises the validity of conflicting perspectives; that doesn’t want complex events distilled into easy parables of moral righteousness. That audience, despairing of the way so much Middle East coverage is drained of historical context and nuance, will find some solace in The Gates of Gaza.’

Amir Tibon is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, and the author of The Last Palestinian: the rise and reign of Mahmoud Abbas (co-authored with Grant Rumley), the first-ever biography of the leader of the Palestinian Authority. From 2017–2020, Tibon was based in Washington, DC, as a foreign correspondent for Haaretz, and he also has served as a senior editor for the newspaper’s English edition. He, his wife, and their two young daughters are former residents of Kibbutz Nahal Oz but are currently living as internal refugees in northern Israel.

‘Eloquent … scathing … A wide-ranging survey of Israeli history expressed through the drama of a single day and the claustrophobic politics of a small country … [Tibon] reports events with admirable calm, where his own peril is concerned, and cool fury directed at the failures of his country’s leaders … Given what Tibon personally endured — the friends killed and kidnapped by Hamas — he shows an impressive capacity for analytical detachment … There is a readership that recognises the validity of conflicting perspectives; that doesn’t want complex events distilled into easy parables of moral righteousness. That audience, despairing of the way so much Middle East coverage is drained of historical context and nuance, will find some solace in The Gates of Gaza.’