Mission in Captivity

One Woman’s Struggle to Survive and Save Her Family in Gaza
Winner of the 2026 Bernstein Prize

A powerful, firsthand account of a womans fifty-day struggle to protect three generations of her family while held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
Winner of the 2026 Bernstein Prize

A powerful, firsthand account of a womans fifty-day struggle to protect three generations of her family while held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

For fifty days, Dr. Shoshan Haran was held captive alongside her familyincluding her three-year-old granddaughterunder the constant threat of terrorists and the horror of IDF bombardments.

After their release, words began to pour out of her. Mission in Captivity is a story of physical and psychological survival in a place where the threat of death looms over every moment. It is an account of the determination to look pure evil in the eye through long, harrowing