Eliezer Smoli
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Eliezer Smoli (born 1901; died 1985) was an Israel
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i writer, famous for his children's books.

Biography

Smoli was born in 1901 in the Volhynia
Volhynia
Volhynia, Volynia, or Volyn is a historic region in western Ukraine located between the rivers Prypiat and Southern Bug River, to the north of Galicia and Podolia; the region is named for the former city of Volyn or Velyn, said to have been located on the Southern Bug River, whose name may come...

 region of western Ukraine
Ukraine
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 (then in the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
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). He began writing at the age of ten, and in 1920, he emigrated to then British-ruled Palestine.

From 1936 to 1936, Smoli studied natural sciences at Berlin University
Humboldt University of Berlin
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.

See also

  • List of Israel Prize recipients
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