Boaz Evron (; June 6, 1927 - September 15, 2018), alternatively transliterated Boas Evron was a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic.

Early life and education

Evron was born in

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. He attended Herzliya Hebrew High School and

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. Evron's family had lived in Palestine since the early nineteenth century; he was a great-grandson of Yoel Moshe Salomon, one of the founders of

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Career

He was a member of Lehi and the Canaanite movement early in his life and remained critical of Zionism and supportive of some of Canaanism's tenets. In 1956 he co-founded the political group

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. His writings were published in Semitic Action's journal ''Etgar'' and in ''Tzipor HaNefesh'', a paper edited by Amos Kenan and Dahn Ben-Amotz. He worked for ''

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'' from 1956 to 1964 and for ''

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'' from 1964 to 1992. At ''Yediot'', Evron wrote a column which appeared on the same page as Kenan's; their page in the paper was given the satirical nickname " Fatahland" in reference to their perceived sympathy for the Palestinians. He also translated books by

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and

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into Hebrew. Evron was the director of the Beit Zvi theater school from 1970 until 1979. He was on the editorial board of the '' Palestine-Israel Journal''.

Death

Evron died in 2018 at the age of 91.

Published works

Books

In Hebrew * מידה של חירות (''Midah shel Herut''), 1975 * החשבון הלאומי (''HaHeshbon Haleumi'', ''A National Reckoning''), 1988 In English *''Jewish State or Israeli Nation?'',

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, 1995. (An adaptation of ''HaHeshbon Haleumi'')

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Evron, Boaz 1927 births 2018 deaths Israeli male journalists Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Lehi members Canaanites (movement) Haaretz people Yedioth Ahronoth people Burials at Menucha Nechona Cemetery Post-Zionists