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Hebrew-language Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until ...

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Shimon Adaf Shimon Adaf (; born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot. Shimon, born to parents of Moroccan origin, now lives in Jaffa. Education and career Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, ''Icarus' Monologue'', won a prize from the Israe ...

* Tamar Adar * Uri Adelman *

Shimon Agassi Shimon Ben Aharon Agassi (also spelled Simon Aghassi) was a Hakham and Kabbalist in Baghdad. He was known as HARASHBA, an acronym for Harav Rabbi Shimon Ben Aharon. Personal life Hakham Agassi was born in 1852. He was married to Rachel Abdall ...

Shmuel Yosef Agnon Shmuel Yosef Agnon (; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the pseudonym Shai A ...

(winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1966) * Lea Aini * Miriam Akavia *

Sholem Aleichem Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish language, Yiddish and , also spelled in Yiddish orthography#Reform and standardization, Soviet Yiddish, ; Russian language, Russian and ), ...

Gila Almagor Gila Almagor Agmon (; born Gila Alexandrowitz; July 22, 1939) is an Israeli actress, film star, and author. In Israel, she is known as "queen of the Israeli cinema and theatre". Biography Gila Alexandrowitz (Almagor) was born in Petah Tikva to Je ...

Nisim Aloni Nissim Aloni (;) Nissim Aloni (Levy) was born on the 14th of Elul, 5686 (August 24, 1926), in the Wolfson neighborhood of Tel Aviv, to a family of Bulgarian descent. He studied at the "Ahad Ha’am" and "Geula" schools. After the War of Independen ...

Shulamit Aloni Shulamit Aloni (; 27 December 1927 – 24 January 2014) was an Israeli politician. She founded the Ratz (political party), Ratz party, was leader of the Meretz party, Leader of the Opposition (Israel), Leader of the Opposition from 1988 to 1990, ...

Udi Aloni Udi Aloni (; born December 10, 1959) is an Israeli American filmmaker, writer, visual artist and political activist whose works focus on the interrelationships between art, theory, and action. Biography Udi Aloni is the son of Reuven and Shulam ...

Nathan Alterman Nathan Alterman (; August 14, 1910 – March 28, 1970) was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Labor Zionist politics, both before and after the es ...

* Mor Altshuler *

Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai (; born Ludwig Pfeuffer 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israelis, Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew language, Hebrew in modern times. Yehuda Amichai, the poet of everyday life, love, ...

* Aharon Amir *

Eli Amir Eli Amir (; ; September 26, 1937) is an Iraqi-born Israeli writer and civil servant. He served as director general of the Youth Aliyah Department of the Jewish Agency. Biography Amir was born Fuad Elias Nasah Halschi in Baghdad, Iraq. He imm ...

Aharon Appelfeld Aharon Appelfeld (; born Ervin Appelfeld; February 16, 1932 – January 4, 2018) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. Biography Ervin (Aharon) Appelfeld was born in Jadova Commune, Storojineț County, in the Bukovina region of the Ki ...

Naim Araidi Naim Araidi (, ; April 2, 1950 – October 2, 2015) was an Israeli Druze academic, Israeli Ambassador to Norway, and writer known for his poems in both Hebrew and Arabic. Education Araidi was born in Maghar, Israel and completed his elementary sc ...

Dan Armon Dan Armon () Israeli poet, was born in Jerusalem in 1948, the year Israel gained independence. He studied literature and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has published four books of poems. References *''The Modern Hebrew Poem It ...

David Avidan David Avidan (; February 21, 1934 – May 11, 1995) was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright" (as he often put it). He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry. Biography and literary career He was born in Tel Aviv, M ...

Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz (; October 8, 1909 – March 20, 1998) was an Israeli author whose works became classics of modern Hebrew children's literature. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1909, she arrived in Palestine in 1921, at the age of 12. A te ...

Yossi Avni-Levy Yossi Avni-Levy (; born 25 May 1962) is an Israeli writer and diplomat. He has served in various positions in Israeli embassies in Berlin, Bonn, Belgrade, and Warsaw. He is Israel’s ambassador to Lithuania. From 2011 until 2016, he was Amb ...

Shay K. Azoulay Shay K. Azoulay () is an Israeli writer who writes in English and Hebrew. Plays Azoulay's debut play, "The Platoon", a satire about the IDF, won first place in the 2012 staged reading festival "Zav Kriah". The play was staged in Tel Aviv's Tzav ...

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Amos Bar Amos Bar (; October 15, 1931 – March 15, 2011), also known as "Possa", was an Israeli author, teacher, and editor. Most of his books are for children and young adults. Biography Amos Bar was born to Sarah and Pinhas Barber in moshav ...

* Nir Baram * Hanoch Bartov * Yocheved Bat-Miriam * Haim Be`er * Maya Bejerano *

Menahem Ben Menahem Ben (; October 31, 1948 – March 13, 2020) was an Israelis, Israeli poet and journalist and an outspoken literary and culture critic. He was a frequent op-ed contributor and authored two weekly columns, on culture and literature, in th ...

Dahn Ben-Amotz Dan Ben-Amotz (; April 13, 1924 – October 20, 1989) was an Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, playwright, and author, as well as a former Palmach member. Despite having immigrated from Poland in 1938, he was often considered the epitome ...

Netiva Ben-Yehuda Netiva Ben Yehuda (; July 1928, Tel Aviv – 28 February 2011) was an Israeli author, editor and media personality. She was a commander in the pre-state Jewish underground Palmach. Biography Netiva ("Tiva") Ben-Yehuda was born in Tel Aviv, in Ma ...

* Avraham Ben-Yitzhak * Reuven Ben-Yosef *

Micha Josef Berdyczewski Micha Josef Berdyczewski (), or Mikhah Yosef Bin-Gorion (7 August 1865 – 18 November 1921) (surname also written ''Berdichevsky''), was a Podolian Jewish writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and a scholar. He appealed for the Jews to change their wa ...

Isaac Dov Berkowitz Isaac Dov Berkowitz (; 16 October 1885 – 29 March 1967), was a Hebrew and Yiddish author and translator. Biography Isaac Dov Berkowitz was born in Slutsk in the Russian Empire. He immigrated to the United States in 1913 before moving pe ...

* Haim Nachman Bialik *

Erez Biton Erez Biton (; born 1942 in Oran, Algeria) is an Algerian-born Israeli poet of Moroccan descent. He is the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry, among other literary awards. Biography Erez Biton was born in Oran i ...

* Yaakov Blau *

Rachel Bluwstein Rachel Bluwstein Sela (; 20 September (Julian calendar) 1890 – 16 April 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Ottoman Palestine, in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel ( ), or as Rachel the Poetess ( ). She is featu ...

* Shani Boianjiu * Reuben Asher Braudes *

Yosef Haim Brenner Joseph Chaim Brenner (; 11 September 1881 – 2 May 1921) was a Hebrew-language author from the Russian Empire, and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature, a thinker, publicist, and public leader. In addition to his literary innovations ...

Martin Buber Martin Buber (; , ; ; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I and Thou, I–Thou relationship and the I� ...

Oded Burla Oded Burla (; June 23, 1915 – July 26, 2009) was an Israeli writer, poet, and artist. He is considered one of the founders of children's literature in Hebrew. Biography Oded Burla was born in Jerusalem to a Sephardic Jewish family. His ...

Yehuda Burla Yehuda Burla (; 18 September 1886 – 7 November 1969) was an Israeli author. Biography Burla was born in 1886 in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to a Sephardi Jewish family with rabbinical roots, originating from İzmir. As a chil ...

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Orly Castel-Bloom Orly Castel-Bloom (; born 1960, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli author. Biography Orly Castel-Bloom was born in Northern Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of French-speaking Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French ...

* Rahel Chalfi *

Sami Shalom Chetrit Sami Shalom Chetrit (; born 1960) is a Moroccan-born Hebrew poet an inter-disciplinary scholar and teacher, and Israeli social and peace activist. Biography Sami Shalom Chetrit was born in Errachidia, Morocco. His family moved to Israel when ...

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Yael Dayan Yael Dayan (; 12 February 1939 – 18 May 2024), also known as Yaël Dayan, was an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and from 2008 to 2013 was the chair of Tel Aviv city council. Her ser ...

Yehiel De-Nur Yehiel De-Nur (; ''De-Nur'' means 'of the fire' in Aramaic; also Romanized ''Dinoor, Di-Nur''), also known by his pen name Ka-Tsetnik 135633 (), born Yehiel Feiner (16 May 1909 – 17 July 2001), was a Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, whos ...

* Yehiel Dinur *

Ramy Ditzanny Ramy Ditzanny () is an Israeli poet who was born in 1950. His most famous poem is "Baal Akhshuv," which can be translated as "Lord of the Spiders." The name is a parody of Baal Zevuv, "Lord of the Flies." Subtle connections are made between the an ...

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Emuna Elon Emuna Elon (Hebrew: אמונה אלון; born 1955) is an Israeli author, journalist, and women's rights activist. Biography Emuna Elon was born in 1955 in Jerusalem, the daughter of rabbi and professor Pinchas Hacohen Peli and his wife Pnina. ...

* Alex Epstein

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Jacob Fichman Jacob Fichman (; 25November 188118May 1958), also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew language, Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic. Biography Fichman was born in Bălți, Bessarabia, Moldova in 1881. He initially ...

* Alona Frankel

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Assaf Gavron Assaf Gavron (; born 21 December 1968) is an Israeli writer, novelist, translator and musician, formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker. His books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Bernstein Prize for ''The Hil ...

Yehonatan Geffen Yehonatan Geffen (; 22 February 1947 – 19 April 2023), also known as Yonatan Gefen, was an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, satirist and playwright. Early life and education Geffen was born in moshav Nahalal. In 1965, he serv ...

Shira Geffen Shira Geffen (; born April 23, 1971) is an Israeli actress, screenwriter, film director and children's book writer. Biography Shira Geffen was born in 1971. Her father, Yehonatan Geffen, was an author.Jordan HoffmanShira Geffen doesn’t care if y ...

Mordechai Geldman Mordechai Geldman (; 16 April 1946 – 8 October 2021) was an Israeli poet, non-fiction writer, artist, art critic and curator, and psychologist. His poems were translated into many languages, including the collection ''Years I Walked at Your Si ...

* Zerubavel Gilad * Amir Gilboa * Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Haam) *

Uri Nissan Gnessin Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879–1913) was a Russian-Jewish writer and a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature. Early life He was born in Starodub, and grew up in the small town of Pochep, Orel province. His father was a rabbi and the head of a yeshiva ...

Leah Goldberg Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg (; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, illustrater and painter, and comparative literary researcher. Her wri ...

Judah Leib Gordon Judah Leib Gordon (, ; December 7, 1830 – September 16, 1892), also known as Leon Gordon, was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Haskalah. Biography Gordon was born to well-to-do Jewish parents who owned a hotel in Vilnius. As a p ...

Carine Goren Carine Goren (; born 1974) is an Israeli pastry chef, bestselling cookbook author, and television personality. She began her culinary career at age 26 as a recipe writer and editor at the Israeli food magazine ''Al Hashulchan'' (Around the Table) ...

Haim Gouri Haim Gouri (; Gurfinkel; 9 October 1923 – 31 January 2018) was an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary film, documentary director (film), filmmaker. He was awarded the Israel Prize for poetry in 1988 and was the #Awards and rec ...

Michal Govrin Michal Govrin (; November 24, 1950) is an Israeli author, poet and theater director. Biography Michal Govrin was born and raised in Tel Aviv to a father who was part of the Third Aliyah and one of the founders of kibbutz Tel Yosef, and a mother ...

Uri Zvi Greenberg Uri Zvi Greenberg (; September 22, 1896 – May 8, 1981; also spelled Uri Zvi Grinberg) was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Widely regarded among the greatest poets in the country's history, he was a ...

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David Grossman David Grossman (; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. Biography David Grossman was born in Jerusalem. He is the eld ...

Batya Gur Batya Gur (; 1 September 1947 – 19 May 2005) was an Israeli novelist. Her specialty was detective fiction. She was a 1994 recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works. Biography Batya Gur was born in Tel Aviv in 1947 to par ...

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Avigdor Hameiri Avigdor Hameiri (Hebrew: אביגדור המאירי; September 16, 1890 – April 3, 1970) was a Hungarian-Israeli author. Biography Hameiri was born as Avigdor Menachem Feuerstein in 1890, in the village of Odavidhaza (near Munkatsch), Carpath ...

Shulamith Hareven Shulamith Hareven (; pen name, Tal Yaeri; February 14, 1930 – November 25, 2003) was an Israeli author and essayist. Biography She was born as Shulamith Riftin to a Zionist family. Her father, Avraham was a lawyer. They immigrated to Mandate ...

Shmuel Hasfari Shmuel Hasfari (; born 26 August 1954) is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter. He was artistic director of the Cameri Theatre. Biography Shmuel Hasfari was born in Ramat Gan to Holocaust survivor parents from History of the Jews in Poland, Po ...

Haim Hazaz Haim Hazaz (; 16 September 1898 – 24 March 1973) was an Israeli novelist. Biography Haim Hazaz was born in the village of Sidorovichi, Kiev Governorate in the Russian Empire, the same village of future prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's fami ...

Meshullam Feivush Heller Reb Meshullam Feivush Heller of Zbarazh (c. 1742– 12 December 1794) was the author of several Hasidic '' sefarim'' including the Yosher Divrei Emes. Biography Rabbi Meshullam Feivush was born to a rabbinic family. His father Harav Aharon Moshe ...

Shlomo Herberg Shlomo Herberg (; 1884–1966) was an Israeli poet, writer translator, writer of Hebrew literature, and teacher of Lithuanian Jewish descent, who was born in what is now Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania. He was one of the first professional Hebre ...

* Dalia Hertz *

Amira Hess Amira Hess (; 13 March 1943 – 1 December 2023) was an Israeli poet and artist. Arriving in Israel in 1951 to a refugee transit camp, she then made her home in Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the ...

Ayin Hillel Ayin Hillel () was the pen name of Hillel Omer (4 August 1926 - 30 June 1990, ), an Israeli poet and children's author. Biography Hillel Kotovitz (later Omer) was born in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek in the Jezreel Valley to Binyamin and Shlomit Kotov ...

Gil Hovav Gil Hovav (; born March 17, 1962) is an Israeli TV presenter, culinary journalist, restaurant critic, and author. ''The Jewish Chronicle'' described him as "Israel's most famous television chef and cookery-book writer," and ''The Forward'' call ...

* Yoel Hoffmann * Shifra Horn * Daniel Horowitz * Yair Hurvitz

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Solomon Ibn Gabirol Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah (, ; , ) was an 11th-century Jews, Jewish poet and Jewish philosopher, philosopher in the Neoplatonism, Neo-Platonic tradition in Al-Andalus. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of biblical ...

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Yehudit Kafri Yehudit Kafri Meiri (; born 1935) is a 20th–21st century Israeli poet and a writer, as well as editor and translator. Biography She was born in 1935 and lived as a child in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh, where her parents were founding members. Yehudit ...

Amalia Kahana-Carmon Amalia Kahana-Carmon (; 18 October 1926 – 16 January 2019) was an Israeli author and literary critic. She was awarded the Israel Prize for literature in 2000. Biography Amalia Kahana-Carmon was born in Kibbutz Ein Harod on 18 October 1926. She ...

Yoram Kaniuk Yoram Kaniuk (; May 2, 1930 – June 8, 2013) was an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theatre critic. Biography Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was born in Ternopi ...

Sayed Kashua Sayed Kashua (, ; born 1975) is an author and journalist. He is a Palestinian people, Palestinian citizen of Israel, born in Tira, Israel. He is known for his books and humorous columns in Hebrew and English. Early life Kashua was born in Tira, ...

* Shmuel Katz *

Itzhak Katzenelson Itzhak Katzenelson (; also transcribed as ''Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson'', ''Jizchak Katzenelson''; ''Yitzhok Katznelson'') (1 July 1886 – 1 May 1944) was a Polish Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist. He was born in 1886 in Karelichy near Minsk, ...

Amos Kenan Amos Kenan (), also Amos Keinan (May 2, 1927 – August 4, 2009), was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist. Biography Amos Levine (later Kenan) was born in south Tel Aviv. His parents were secular socialists. His ...

Yehoshua Kenaz Yehoshua Kenaz (; 2 March 1937 – 12 October 2020) was an Israeli novelist who studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University and at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Kenaz is best known for his novel ''Infiltration'', published ...

Rivka Keren Rivka Keren (Hebrew: רבקה קרן; born 1946) is an Israeli writer. Biography Rivka Keren was born as Katalin Friedländer in Debrecen, Hungary. She immigrated with her parents and small brother to Israel in 1957. She has been writing since ...

Etgar Keret Etgar Keret (; born August 20, 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Early life Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. He is a third child to parents who survive ...

Alona Kimhi Alona Kimhi (; born 1963) is an Israeli award-winning author and former actress. Biography Alona Kimhi was born in Lviv, Ukraine (then in the Soviet Union), in 1966 and emigrated to Israel with her family in 1972. Following her army servic ...

Levin Kipnis Levin Kipnis (; 1 August 1894 – 20 June 1990), or was born 1890, was an Israeli children's author and poet who wrote mainly in Hebrew and Yiddish. He won the Israel Prize in 1978. Biography Kipnis was born in in Volhynian Governorate which ...

Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler (, ; ; ; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler j ...

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Ephraim Kishon Ephraim Kishon (; August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was a Hungarian-born Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Academy Award, Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satire, satirists in Israel a ...

Admiel Kosman Admiel Kosman (; born in 1957) is an Israeli poet and professor of Talmud. Biography Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa, Israel to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father hailed from a German Jewish family living in France, and his mother immigrated f ...

Abba Kovner Abba Kovner (; 14 March 1918 – 25 September 1987) was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his 1942 manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murde ...

* Asher Kravitz *

Zundel Kroizer Zundel Kroizer (; 25 November 1924 - 7 May 2014) was a Haredi Israeli rabbi and the author of ''sefer Ohr Hachamah'' on the entire Talmud, ''Shulchan Aruch'', Five '' Chumashim'' and the '' Haggadah shel Pesach''. He was born in Jerusalem to Rab ...

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Yitzhak Lamdan Yitzhak Lamdan (; ‎ 7 November 1897 – 17 November 1954) was a Russian-born Israeli Hebrew-language poet, translator, editor and columnist. Biography Itzi-Yehuda Lubes or Lobes (later Yitzhak Lamdan) was born in 1897 in Mlynov, Russia (n ...

Yitzhak Laor Yitzhak Laor (; born in 1948) is an Israeli poet, author and journalist. Biography Yitzhak Laor was born in Pardes Hanna. Literary and journalism career He is the author of ten volumes of poetry, three novels, three collections of short stories, ...

Shulamit Lapid Shulamit Lapid (, ; born 9 November 1934) is an Israeli novelist and playwright. Biography Lapid was born in Tel Aviv. She majored in Oriental studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her father, David Giladi (born in Transylvania, Austria ...

Yair Lapid Yair Lapid ( ; born 5 November 1963) is an Israeli politician of the centrist Yesh Atid party and a former journalist who has been the Leader of the Opposition (Israel), Leader of the Opposition since January 2023, having previously served in t ...

Micah Joseph Lebensohn Micah Joseph Lebensohn (; (2 February 1828 – 17 February 1852), also known by the pen name Mikhal (), was one of the foremost poets and translators of the Haskalah in Vilna. He is best known for his innovative narrative Biblical romances and ...

Haim Lensky Haim Lensky (1905–1943), also Hayyim Lensky, was a Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew. He wrote the bulk of his verse while imprisoned in several Soviet labor camps from 1934 onward. Lensky was born in the Belarusian town of Slonim and lived in D ...

Motti Lerner Motti Lerner (; born September 16, 1949) is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter. Early life He was born in Zikhron Ya'akov, a village south of Haifa, in Israel. His great-grandparents immigrated to Palestine in 1882 from Romania and Russia ...

Ron Leshem Ron Leshem () is an Israeli screenwriter, producer, and author. He is an executive producer of ''Euphoria'', which was based on the Israeli television series he co-created and co-wrote in 2012. His first film as a screenwriter, '' Beaufort,'' ...

Hezi Leskali Hezy Leskly (; 26 July 1952 – 26 May 1994) was an Israeli poet, choreographer, painter and dance critic. Biography Yehezkel (Hezy) Leskly was born in Rehovot to History of the Jews in the Czech lands, Czech-Jewish parents who survived the Holoc ...

Hanoch Levin Hanoch Levin (; December 18, 1943 – August 18, 1999) was an Israeli dramatist, theater director, author and poet, best known for his plays. His absurdist style is often compared to the work of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. Biography Lev ...

Zvi Lieberman Zvi Lieberman (also Zvi Liberman) (; March 1, 1891 - August 6, 1985) Ben-Ezer, Ehud (1998). Days of Artemisia. Am Oved. p. 543. was a Russian-born Israeli children’s book author. He aliyah, immigrated to Palestine during the Second Aliyah pe ...

* Savyon Liebrecht *

Irit Linur Irit Linur (; born 1961) is an Israeli author. Biography Irit Linur was married to Alon Ben David, Senior Defense Correspondent for Israel Channel 10 and Middle East Correspondent for Jane's Defence Weekly. Literary career Linur started her w ...

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Abraham Mapu Abraham Mapu (; 1808 in Vilijampolė, Kaunas1867 in Königsberg, Prussia) was a Lithuanian novelist. He wrote in Hebrew as part of the Haskalah (enlightenment) movement. His novels, with their lively plots encompassing heroism, adventure and r ...

Aharon Megged Aharon Megged (; 10 August 1920 – 23 March 2016) (Hebrew calendar, Hebrew year 5680) was an Israeli author and playwright, a winner of multiple literary awards. Biography Aharon Greenberg (later Megged) was born in Włocławek, Poland. In 1 ...

Sami Michael Sami Michael (, ; 15 August 1926 – 1 April 2024) was an Israeli Iraqi author, having migrated from Iraq to Israel at the age of 23. From 2001, Michael was the President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). Michael was among ...

Agi Mishol Agi Mishol (; born October 20, 1947) is an Israeli poet. Mishol's work has been published in several languages, and has won various awards including the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry and the Ye ...

* Mendele Mocher Sefarim *

Igal Mossinsohn Yigal Mossinson (; 25 December 1917 – 1 May 1994), also known as Igal Mossinsohn, Yigal Mosenzon and Yig'al Mosinzon, was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor. He was the author of the Hasamba children's book series. Among his many aw ...

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Yair Nehorai Yair Nehorai () is an Israeli lawyer and author, best known for his novel ''Taliban Son'' (Hebrew: וַתְּהִי-לִי אִמִּי קִבְרִי; the Hebrew title is taken from Jeremiah 20:17)Schweimer, Yota''Ynet'' 25 January 2012. Retrieved ...

Eshkol Nevo Eshkol Nevo (; born 28 February 1971) is an Israeli writer who has published a collection of short stories, five novels and a work of non-fiction. One of his novels, ''Homesick'', was awarded the Book Publishers Association Gold Prize (2005) an ...

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Aliza Olmert Aliza Olmert (; Richter; born 1946) is an Israeli artist, photographer, author and social worker. She is married to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Biography Aliza Olmert was born in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany ...

* Dvora Omer * Joachim Oppenheim *

Amir Or Amir Or (; born 1956), is an Israelis, Israeli poet, novelist, and essayist whose works have been published in more than 50 languages. Levin, Lynn, "Israeli Poet Amir Or: A Conversation About Language, Myth, and the Soul" at the "Poetry Life and Ti ...

Ram Oren Ram Oren (; born 8 March 1936) is an Israeli author who has sold an unprecedented 1 million books in Hebrew. Oren was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandatory Palestine, Mandate era. At age 15, he began his journalistic career as a messenger bo ...

Uri Orlev Uri Orlev (; 24 February 1931 – 26 July 2022) born Jerzy Henryk Orłowski, was a Polish-born Israeli children's author and translator. He received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1996 for his "lasting contribution to children's literat ...

Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach Yitzhak Orpaz (, ; 15 October 1921 – 14 August 2015) was an Israeli writer. Biography Yitzhak Orpaz was born in Zinkiv in Soviet Ukraine. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine at the age of 17. In 1942, Orpaz found out that his parents and ...

Amos Oz Amos Oz (; born Amos Klausner (); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a pro ...

Kobi Oz Kobi Oz (, , born Ya'akov Uzan (, ) on 17 September 1969) is the lead singer of Israeli group Teapacks. Biography Yaakov Uzan was born on 17 September 1969 in Sderot to Tunisian Jewish parents who moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in ...

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Alexander Penn Alexander Penn (, ; 14 February 1906 – 19 April 1972) was an Israeli poet. Biography Avraham (Alexander) Pepliker-Stern (later Penn) was born in Yakymivka, Russian Empire. According to one version of his biography, his father, Yosef Stern ...

* Isaac Loeb Peretz * Israel Pinkas (Anton) * Elisha Porat * Gabriel Preil

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Esther Raab Esther Raab (; April 25, 1894 – September 4, 1981) was a Hebrew author of prose and poetry, known as "the first Sabra poet", due to her eminence as the first Israeli woman poet and for the prominence of her native landscape in her imagery. ...

Dorit Rabinyan Dorit Rabinyan (; born September 25, 1972) is an Israeli writer and screenwriter. Biography She was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, to an Iranian-Jewish family. She has published three novels, two of which have been widely translated. She has also ...

Rachel Rachel () was a Bible, Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph (Genesis), Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban (Bible), Laban. Her older siste ...

Naomi Ragen Naomi Ragen (; born July 10, 1949) is an American-Israeli modern-Orthodox Jewish author and playwright. Ragen lives in Jerusalem, and writes in English. A recurring theme in her fictional works is injustice against women in the Haredi Jewish commu ...

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Rami Saari Rami Saari (; born 17 September 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israelis, Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic. Biography Saari studied Semitic and Uralic languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem. He d ...

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Avraham Shlonsky Avraham Shlonsky (; ; March 6, 1900 – May 18, 1973) was a Russian-born Israeli poet and editor. He was influential in the development of modern Hebrew and its literature in Israel through his many acclaimed translations of literary classics, ...

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Benjamin Tammuz Benjamin Tammuz (; 11 July 1919 – 19 July 1989) was an Israeli writer and artist who contributed to Israeli culture in many disciplines, as a novelist, journalist, critic, painter, and sculptor. Benjamin Tammuz was born in Russian SFSR, Soviet R ...

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Shaul Tchernichovsky Shaul Tchernichovsky () or Saul Gutmanovich Tchernichovsky (; 20 August 1875 – 14 October 1943) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and a poet greatly influenced by the ...

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Hayyim Tyrer Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer () was an important Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist, and is today remembered for several well known Hasidic works. He is also known as "Hayyim of Czernowitz", after his time there. He was a pupil of Rabbi Yechiel Mich ...

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Yona Wallach Yona Wallach (; June 10, 1944 – September 26, 1985) was an Israeli poet. Her surname also appears as Volach. She is considered a revolutionary Israeli Feminism, feminist and Postmodernism, post-modernist. Wallach had wrote poetry from a young ...

Meir Wieseltier Meir Wieseltier (; March 8, 1941 – March 30, 2023) was an Israeli poet and translator. Wieseltier was awarded the 2000 Israel Prize. Biography Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, shortly before the German invasion of Russia. He was tak ...

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Dov Yaffe Dov Yaffe (; 1928–2017) was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi, mashgiach, and leader of the Musar movement. Youth He was born at Vilna in June 1928. In 1935, at age 7, he moved with his parents to the Land of Israel and settled in Tel Aviv whe ...

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Avoth Yeshurun Avoth Yeshurun (; 1904–1992, born Yehiel Perlmutter), also Avot Yeshurun, was an acclaimed modern Hebrew poet. Winner of the Israel Prize for literature in 1992. Biography Avoth Yeshurun was born on Yom Kippur in 1904 in Niskhish (now in Ukrai ...

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Natan Yonatan Nathan Yonathan (; 20 September 1923 – 12 March 2004) was an Israeli poet. His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Port ...

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Natan Zach Nathan Zach (; 13 December 1930 – 6 November 2020) was an Israeli poet. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent poets in the country's history, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1995 for poetry. He was also the recipient of other nationa ...

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