[4] In late 2014, Tibon and his wife (then fiancée), Miri, moved to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, following a journalistic visit in August 2014.
[10] He noted in October 2024 that "Although I supported the war at the beginning...I now prefer an agreement to bring back the hostages and end the conflict".
[13] Tibon began working as a Washington correspondent for Haaretz in early 2017, the week of Donald Trump's inauguration.
[6][18][19] In 2024, Tibon published The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel’s Borderlands, a non-fiction book about the October 7 attack on Nahal Oz and the events leading up to it.
[20][21][10][22] In January 2015, Tibon and fellow journalist Ben Birnbaum were nominated for a National Magazine Award for their reporting in The New Republic, entitled "How Close They Came".