Yitzhak Laor ( he, יצחק לאור, born in 1948) is an Israeli poet, author and journalist.

Biography

Yitzhak Laor was born in

Pardes Hanna Pardes Hanna-Karkur ( he, פַּרְדֵּס חַנָּה-כַּרְכּוּר) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel. In it had a population of . History An Arab village named Karkur had stood at this location by the time the Palestine E ...

Literary and journalism career

He is the author of ten volumes of poetry, three novels, three collections of short stories, two collections of essays and one play. In his poem "In a Village whose Name I don't even know" he imagines himself stranded in a Lebanese village: "For a moment I hoped that I would be caught". His book ''The Myths of Liberal Zionism'' was published in English by

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in February 2009. In a June 2011 article in Haaretz, Laor stated that he opposes Zionism: He claimed that "liberation from Zionism is not a dirty word... we have to get rid of Zionism".

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An ordered collection of Laor's articles, referenced by Palestine: Information With Provenance
{{DEFAULTSORT:Laor, Yitzhak 1948 births Living people Israeli poets Israeli male dramatists and playwrights Israeli conscientious objectors Israeli literary critics Haaretz people People from Pardes Hanna-Karkur

Biography

Literary and journalism career

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