WORTH READING: Amir Tibon, The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands. Amir, an acquaintance of mine, became famous when his dad, a retired general armed only with a pistol, drove from Tel Aviv to Israel’s border with Gaza in the middle of Hamas’s October 7 attack to rescue Amir, his wife, and two small children from Hamas terrorists who had invaded their kibbutz. But as dramatic as that is, the full story is even “better.”