Opinion | What I learned working on the Haaretz news desk on October 7

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I remember rushing into the newsroom in Tel Aviv shortly after Hamas launched its attack and joining the early-morning editor, who was trying, between rocket sirens, to figure out, like the rest of the country, what was happening

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Eitan Bolokan

01:20 PM • October 07 2026 IDT

On the morning of October 7, 2023, the ethos of copy editing as the work of revising, adjusting and rearranging words, quotes and headlines while fact-checking and catching inconsistencies, collided with unimaginable chaos.

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