Uri Kauf­man is the author of Eigh­teen Days in Octo­ber: The Yom Kip­pur War and How it Cre­at­ed the Mod­ern Mid­dle East (St. Martin’s, 2023), select­ed by The Finan­cial Times in 2023 as one of the year’s best his­to­ry books. His work has appeared in For­eign Affairs, Newsweek, The Jerusalem Post, and numer­ous oth­er publications.