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Alon
Penzel
Author of the first comprehensive, verified documentary record of firsthand accounts from October 7th, 2023.
Author of the first comprehensive, verified documentary record of firsthand accounts from October 7th, 2023.
Alon Penzel is an author and a Founding Fellow of the Mitzpe Institute. He has written two books; the first he wrote at sixteen. His most recent, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel, October 7th, 2023, is the first comprehensive, verified documentary record of firsthand accounts from October 7 — a bestseller in nine countries and seven languages, published by Mitzpe Press.
He serves as the Israeli delegate to the European Students’ Union, where he represents 390,000 students, and is a recipient of the Ramon Award. He trained in negotiation at Harvard and is reading political science at the University of Haifa. He has also served as a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces.
His work centers on testimony and the documentary record — the discipline of preserving what happened in the words of the people it happened to.
Exclusive, unfiltered testimonies from the people who were there — survivors of the kibbutzim and the Nova festival, recovery and rescue forces, medical professionals, and forensic teams. Every account verified, every source identified, every testimony preserved in the words of the person who gave it.
Read about the book →Bearing witness, and the discipline of preserving it.
What students face, and how institutions answer.
Making the case with clarity, to audiences that begin skeptical.
Communicating under pressure, on the record.
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