Graduate student Talya Ben Shitrit, advised by Prof. Joachim Meyer from The Department of Industrial Engineering at the The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, are using advanced machine learning methods to process the vast amounts of testimonies from the October 7 terror attacks and subsequent war. They developed a system to automate the identification of key words, names, and concepts in Hebrew testimonies, working with Or Rappel-Kroyzer from TAU’s Civil Archive of the October 7th War and Prof. Eran Toch from the IWiT Lab.
The Archive, an initiative led by doctoral students from the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, aims to collect, preserve, and make these accounts accessible worldwide. The system analyzed approximately 850 testimonies, showing improved performance over traditional methods. It is expected to reduce workload, enhance consistency in organizing testimonies, and improve the archive’s usability for researchers.
Link to the Github repository.
Link to the story at Tel Aviv University’s 2025 report.
Top Locations mentioned in the archive. Locations such as Gaza, Gaza Envelope, Nova, and Be’eri are highlighted as key areas where many of the incidents during October 7th occurred
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