Digital Warrior

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Rachel Lester woke up in Tel Aviv to the sound of sirens and explosions. Instead of fleeing, the Los Angeles-born video editor put on an olive-green uniform and reported for duty at the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. Her weapon was not an M16, but an iMac; her battlefield was not the Gaza Strip, but the volatile, high-stakes arena of international social media. Digital Warrior pulls back the curtain on the grueling PR battle waged alongside the kinetic war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. From the high-stakes countdown to expose the Al-Ahli Hospital hoax to the harrowing psychological toll of archiving raw terrorist footage, this gripping insider memoir reveals how a democracy defends itself when the truth is the first casualty of war.