S. Yizhar

Yizhar Smilansky, who wrote under the name S. Yizhar, was born on 27 September 1916 into a family of writers; his father, Zeev Smilansky, was one of the leaders of Hapoel Hatzair. The poet Yitzhak Lamdan gave him his pen name in 1938, when he published his first story in the journal Gilyonot. A schoolteacher, he was a brigade intelligence officer during the 1948 war, sat in the Knesset from 1949 to 1967, with one interruption, and became a professor of education at Tel Aviv University. He received the Israel Prize in 1959 and died in 2006.

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