One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories is a best-selling recounting of over 40 stories of everyday Israelis whose heroic actions have helped reclaim and reshape the narrative of October 7th. Working from interview transcripts, Yair Agmon and Oriya Mevorach artfully crafted compelling first-person prose narratives. Using the interviewees’ own words in their authentic immediacy, these monologues gently touch on the darkness, the sadness, but also the light, the beauty, and the human grandeur that resonated on that day.

They aimed to tell the story of ordinary people who, on one tragic day, became heroes. All texts were reviewed and approved by the book’s heroes.

The authors, Yair and Oriya, will share their experience and reflections on creating this anthology.