On October 6, 2023, Shahar Horovitz was a 22-year-old Israeli woman fresh off nine months of backpacking through Latin America—swimming in Caribbean waters, hiking the Andes, and collecting stories for a lifetime.

On October 7, she became a survivor of the deadliest civilian massacre in Israel's history.
After running for three hours through open fields to escape Hamas terrorists at the Nova Festival, Shahar found herself grappling with a question that wouldn't let her go: Why did she survive when 378 others—including seven of her friends—did not?

The search for that answer took her from the trauma wards of Israeli hospitals to her uncle's apartment in Manhattan, from sleepless nights haunted by survivor's guilt to slow mornings learning to t ...more

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	Surviving October 7: The Nova Festival Massacre: A 22-Year Old Woman's Story of Terror, Escape, and Resilience 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

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