Nissim Aloni was an Israeli writer, playwright, director and translator. He was born in 1926 in south Tel Aviv, to a hard working family who immigrated to Israel from Bulgaria and lived and worked in the city for 50 years. In his life and work he was a great influence on the modern culture that […]
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Mira Magen is an Israeli writer. She was born in Kfar Saba in 1950 to a religious family. She worked a few years as a teacher, and then studied psychology and sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She worked for several years at the National Insurance Institute and later as a nurse at Hadassah […]
Miri Shaham is an Israeli writer and editor. She writes books upon request, leads enterprise documentation projects based on employee memories and gives writing workshops. Many of her short stories were published in recent years in several magazines. She founded with Avivit Mishmari the literary mgazine Petel, edited and published a comprehensive digital anthology of […]
Ruth Almog is an Israeli author. She was born in Petach Tikvah in 1936. Her parents were both religious Jewish doctors who came from Germany, and worked in bee keeping and honey production in their early years in Palestine. She studied at the David Yellin Teachers’ Seminary and worked as an elementary school teacher, and […]
Julia Fermentto is an Israeli writer. She was born in Kfar Saba in 1984 and lived most of her adult life in Tel Aviv. At the age of 24 she wrote her first novel Safari which was published in 2011 to great acclaim. Her stories were published in the United States, Britain, Germany, and Poland. […]
Benjamin Tammuz was an Israeli writer and artist. He was born in Kharkov (now in the Ukraine) in 1919 and immigrated to Israel at the age of five with his parents. His father passed away while Tammuz was only eight, which impacted him and was later expressed in his works. He was writing, sculpting and painting from a […]
Yoav Katz is a writer and translator. He is a graduate of the Dramatic Writing Program at Tel Aviv University and wrote screenplays for film, television, and stage plays. Kats is a two-time winner of Haaretz short story contest. He won the 1999 Moses Fund literary prize for his book Multisystem. He is the author of the best-selling novel Home-run at Ben-Gurion Airport. Katz […]
Shoham Smith is an Israeli writer, translator and literary critic. She was born in Jerusalem in 1966 and grew up in the Jordan Valley. Smith is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and the literature department of Tel Aviv University. Her short stories were published in a variety of magazines. Her […]
Uzi Weil, author, journalist, screenwriter, and translator, was born in 1964 in Kibbutz Gazit. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Tel Aviv and grew up in the neighborhood of Yad Eliyahu. Weil has published 13 books for adults and children. He wrote and edited The Back Page for “Ha’ir” weekly […]
Shay Azoulay is an Israeli writer, playwright, and translator. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and communication from Tel Aviv University and an MFA in creative writing from New York City College. During his stay in New York, he wrote the novel Salah the Mute, and translated into English several plays by Hanoch Levin, […]
Yehudit Hendel is an Israeli writer. She was born in Warsaw in 1926 to a Hasidic family. In 1930, her family immigrated to Israel and lived in Nesher. Her mother died of typhus when Hendel was a young girl and she moved with her father to Haifa. In 1948 she married the painter Zvi Meirovich. […]
Nissan Shor is an Israeli writer and a documentary filmmaker. He was born in 1979 in Haifa. He directed the documentary series “Dancing with Tears in Our Eyes” (based on his book exploring the history of club culture in Israel), “The Ad Men: The Story of the Israeli Advertising Industry,” and “A Place at the Top: Six Chapters About Israeli Pop.” Shor writes a […]
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