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• Shimon Adaf
  Shimon Adaf
  Shimon Adaf is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, Icarus' Monologue won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli...
  
  
• Tamar Adar
  Tamar Adar
  Tamar Adar , was an Israeli writer, poet, playwright, and screenwriter. Adar has written screenplays for several popular Israeli television series and has published tens of popular children's books, as well as various other works...
  
  
• Uri Adelman
  Uri Adelman
  Uri Adelman Adelman was born and raised in Ramat Gan by an 8th generation German-Jewish family hailing from Jerusalem. Adelman used the TAU's musicology department where he worked as a setting for his first thriller novel, Concerto for Spy and Orchestra...
  
  
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  Shmuel Yosef Agnon , was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon . In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire...
  
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• Lea Aini
  Lea Aini
  Lea Aini , is an Israeli author and poet, who has written over twenty books.Her 2009 novel The Rose of Lebanon, her eighth prose book, deals with the stories that a female soldier volunteer tells about her childhood as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Saloniki.-Awards:*In 1988, Eini won...
  
  
• Miriam Akavia
  Miriam Akavia
  Miriam Akavia is an Israeli writer and translator, she survived the Holocaust, she is a president of Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue.- Biography :She was born on 1927 in Krakow in Weinfelds family...
  
  
• Sholem Aleichem
• Gila Almagor
  Gila Almagor
  Gila Almagor is an Israeli actress, film star, and author.-Biography:Gila Almagor was born four months after the death of her father, Max Alexandrowitz, a Jewish immigrant from Germany who was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman in Haifa...
  
  
• Nissim Aloni
• Shulamit Aloni
  Shulamit Aloni
  Shulamit Aloni is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993.-Biography:...
  
  
• Udi Aloni
  Udi Aloni
  Udi Aloni is an Israeli and American filmmaker, writer and visual artist whose works focus on the interrelationships between art, theory,and action. He began his career as a painter, establishing the Bugrashov gallery in Tel Aviv, a home for contemporary art, cultural and political events...
  
  
• Nathan Alterman
  Nathan Alterman
  Nathan Alterman was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator who – though never holding any elected office – was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.-Biography:...
  
  
• Yehuda Amichai
  Yehuda Amichai
  Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....
  
  
• Aharon Amir
  Aharon Amir
  Aharon Amir was an Israeli Hebrew poet, a literary translator and a writer.- Biography :Amir was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He moved to Palestine with his family in 1933 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His father,...
  
  
• Eli Amir
  Eli Amir
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• Aharon Appelfeld
  Aharon Appelfeld
  -Biography:Appelfeld was born in the village of Zhadova near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine. In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Romanian army invaded his hometown and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped and hid for...
  
  
• Naim Araidi
  Naim Araidi
  Naim Araidi is a Druze writer known for his poems in both Hebrew and Arabic.-Education:Dr. Naim completed his elementary school in his village, then moved to Haifa to complete his secondary education. He went on to gain B.A in Hebrew language and Political Science and another B.A in Hebrew...
  
  
• Dan Armon
  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.-External links:*...
  
  
• David Avidan
  David Avidan
  David Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright" . He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.-Biography and literary career:...
  
  
• Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz
  Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz
  Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar was an Israeli author whose works became classics of modern Hebrew children’s literature.-Life:Tchernovitz-Avidar was born in Vilna, Lithuania in October 1909...
  
  
• Yossi Avni-Levy
  Yossi Avni-Levy
  Yossi Avni-Levy is an Israeli writer and diplomat, and spokesperson of the MoFA. He has served at various posts in Israeli embassies in Berlin, Bonn, Belgrade, and Warsaw....
  
  
• S. K. Azoulay

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• Amos Bar
  Amos Bar
  Amos Bar , also known as "Possah", was an Israeli author, teacher, and editor. Most of his books are for children and young adults.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hanoch Bartov
  Hanoch Bartov
  Hanoch Bartov is an Israeli author and journalist.-Biography:Hanoch Helfgott was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland. He attended a religious school and then the Ahad Haam gymnasium. After working in diamond polishing and welding for two years, he enlisted...
  
  
• Yocheved Bat-Miriam
  Yocheved Bat-Miriam
  Yocheved Bat-Miriam was an Israeli poet. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, Merahok was published in 1929...
  
  
• Hannah Bat-Shahar
• Ella Bat-Tsion
• Haim Be`er
  Haim Be`er
  Haim Be'er , born in 1945, is an Israeli novelist.-Biography:Haim Rachlevsky was born in Jerusalem to an Orthodox Jewish family. He grew up in the Geula neighborhood, and attended Ma'aleh, a state religious high school...
  
  
• Meira Bein
• Maya Bejerano
  Maya Bejerano
  Maya Bejerano is an Israeli poet.She graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy, and from Hebrew University with an M.A...
  
  
• Menahem Ben
  Menahem Ben
  Menahem Ben is an Israeli poet and journalist and an outspoken literary and culture critic. He is a frequent op-ed contributor and authors two weekly columns, on culture and literature, in the Maariv daily newspaper, as well as a monthly book review page in that paper's literary...
  
  
• Dahn Ben-Amotz
• Uzi Ben-Canaan
• Ehud Ben-Ezer
• Yitzhak Ben-Ner
• Moshe Ben-Shaul
• Dvora Ben-Shir
• Netiva Ben-Yehuda
  Netiva Ben-Yehuda
  Netiva Ben Yehuda was an Israeli author, editor and media personality. She was a commander in the pre-state Jewish underground, Palmach.-Biography:...
  
  
• Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
  Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
  Avraham Ben-Yitzhak was an Israeli Hebrew poet.He was born Avraham Sonne, on September 13, 1883 in Przemyśl, Galicia, a region of Eastern Europe which has changed hands throughout history between Austria and Poland. In his youth, Przemyśl was part of the Austrian Empire, and he moved to Vienna to...
  
  
• Reuven Ben-Yosef
  Reuven Ben-Yosef
  Reuven Ben-Yosef was an Israeli poet-Biography:Ben-Yosef was born Robert Eliot Reiss, the son of Joseph and Cecilia Reiss, in New York City on May 31, 1937....
  
  
• Micha Josef Berdyczewski
  Micha Josef Berdyczewski
  Micha Josef Berdyczewski , or Mikhah Yosef Bin-Gorion was a Ukrainian-born writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and a scholar...
  
  
• Tamar Bergman
• Isaac Dov Berkowitz
  Isaac Dov Berkowitz
  Isaac Dov Berkowitz , a Jewish and Israeli author, born in Slutsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus. He emigrated to and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, today Israel, in 1928.-Works:...
  
  
• Ilana Bernstein
• Ory Bernstein
• Yaakov Besser
• Haim Nachman Bialik
• Yehoash Biber
• Elisheva Bichovsky
• Yossl Birstein
• Erez Biton
  Erez Biton
  Erez Biton is an Hebrew poet. Born in North Africa, he immigrated to Israel in 1948. At the age of 10, he was blinded by a stray hand grenade that he found. He spent the rest of his childhood in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind. He received a degree in social work from The Hebrew University of...
  
  
• Ruth Blumert
• Rachel Bluwstein
  Rachel Bluwstein
  Sela was a Hebrew poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel, or as Rachel the poetess .-Biography:...
  
  
• Yosef Haim Brenner
  Yosef Haim Brenner
  Yosef Haim Brenner was a Russian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature.-Biography:Brenner was born to a poor Jewish family in Novi Mlini, Russian Empire...
  
  
• Martin Buber
  Martin Buber
  Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....
  
  
• Jacob Buchan
• Oded Burla
  Oded Burla
  Oded Yehuda Burla was an Israeli writer, poet, and artist. He is considered as one of the founders of children's literature in Hebrew.- Early years :...
  
  
• Yehuda Burla
  Yehuda Burla
  Yehuda Burla 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 Izmir. Until the age of 18, he had a religious education, studying at yeshiva and beth midrash...
  
  
• Dror Burstein
• Dudi Busi

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• Daniella Carmi
• T. Carmi
  T. Carmi
  -Biography:He was born Carmi Charny in New York City. Hebrew was his mother tongue and his family used it as the spoken language of their home. He moved to Israel just before the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence...
  
  
• Orly Castel-Bloom
  Orly Castel-Bloom
  Orly Castel-Bloom is an Israeli author.Orly Castel-Bloom was born in north Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French...
  
  
• Ronit Chacham
• Abraham Chalfi
• Rahel Chalfi
• Sami Shalom Chetrit
  Sami Shalom Chetrit
  Sami Shalom Chetrit is a Moroccan- born Hebrew poet and Israeli social and peace activist.-Biography:Sami Shalom Chetrit was born in Errachedia, Morocco. His family moved to Israel when he was 3 years old. He grew up in Ashdod...
  
  
• Adir Cohen
• Dalya B. Cohen
• Gerda Cohen

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• Amnon Dankner
  Amnon Dankner
  Amnon Dankner is an Israeli newspaper editor and author. He was the editor of the mass-circulation daily Maariv for six years.-Biography:Amnon Dankner was born in Jerusalem. His parents were the owners of Cafe Allenby. The family was secular but he attended a religious school, Ma'aleh, where he...
  
  
• Yael Dayan
  Yael Dayan
  Yaël Dayan is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and is currently the chair of Tel Aviv city council. She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan.-Biography:...
  
  
• Yehiel Dinur
• Ramy Ditzanny
  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 ancient Canaanites and the modern Palestinians.- Further...
  
  
• Moshe Dor
• Lizzie Doron

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• Arieh Eckstein
• Israel Efros
• Amela Einat
• Dov Elbaum
• Anadad Eldan
• Israel Eliraz
• Emuna Elon
  Emuna Elon
  Emuna Elon is an Israeli author and journalist. She is foremost known as a strong nationalist and for her marriage to Rabbi Binyamin Elon, a Knesset member. Her name Emuna means faith....
  
  
• Sagit Emmet
• Alex Epstein (Israeli writer)
  Alex Epstein (Israeli writer)
  Alex Epstein is an Israeli writer, known for his short-short stories. He moved to Israel at the age of eight. Epstein has published three novels and four collections of stories...
  
  
• Haya Esther (Godlevsky)
• Esther Ettinger
• Miriam Ettinger
• Rachel Eytan

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• Mordecai Ze`ev Feierberg
• Esther Fein
• Anat Feinberg
• Jacob Fichman
  Jacob Fichman
  Jacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman , was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.-Biography:Fichman was born in Botoşani, Romania in 1881...
  
  
• Naomi Fraenkel
• Alona Frankel
  Alona Frankel
  Alona Frankel is a Polish-born Israeli author and illustrator of children's books.She was born in Cracow, Poland and hid throughout the Holocaust, in 1949 she moved to Israel.-Biography:...
  
  
• David Frishman

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• Naomi Gal
• Roni Ganor
• Ami Gedalia
• Yehonatan Geffen
  Yehonatan Geffen
  Yehonatan Geffen also known as Yonatan Gefen, is an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright.- Biography :...
  
  
• Shira Geffen
• Ofra Gelbart-Avni
• Mordechai Geldman
  Mordechai Geldman
  -Biography:Geldman was born at a displaced persons camp in Munich to Polish parents who had survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he has lived ever since. He completed a bachelor's in literature and an master's in clinical psychology at Bar...
  
  
• Amir Gilboa
  Amir Gilboa
  Amir Gilboa was a prominent Israeli Hebrew poet, born in Ukraine.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shulamit Gilboa
• Zerubavel Gilad
• Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Haam)
• Roni Givati
• Eytan N. Glass
• Uri Nissan Gnessin
  Uri Nissan Gnessin
  Uri Nissan Gnessin was a Russian Jewish writer, generally considered a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature.-Early life:He was born in Starodub, where his father was a rabbi...
  
  
• Shammai Golan
• Leah Goldberg
  Leah Goldberg
  Leah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature and remain very popular among Hebrew speaking Israelis.-Biography:...
  
  
• Judah Leib Gordon
  Judah Leib Gordon
  Judah Leib Gordon, also known as Leon Gordon, was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Jewish Enlightenment....
  
  
• Yitzhak Gormezano-Goren
• Haim Gouri
  Haim Gouri
  Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine...
  
  
• Michal Govrin
• Uri Zvi Greenberg
  Uri Zvi Greenberg
  Uri Zvi Grinberg was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.-Biography:Uri Zvi Grinberg was born in Bialikamin, Galicia, then Austria-Hungary, into a prominent Hasidic family. He was raised in Lemberg . Some of his poems in Yiddish and Hebrew were published...
  
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• Marina Groslerner
• David Grossman
  David Grossman
  David Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
  
  
• Batya Gur
  Batya Gur
  Batya Gur was an Israeli writer. Her specialty was detective fiction.-Biography:Batya Gur was born in Tel Aviv in 1947 to parents who survived the Holocaust. She earned a master's degree in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before writing her first detective novel at the...
  
  
• Zali Gurevitch

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• Shimon Halkin
• Avigdor Hameiri
  Avigdor Hameiri
  Avigdor Hameiri was an Israeli author.-Biography:Hameiri was born Avigdor Feuerstein in 1890 in the village of Odavidhaza , Carpathian Ruthenia in Austria Hungary. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921, where he became one of the original 16,000 1948 freedom fighters...
  
  
• Israel Hameiri
• Nira Harel
• Orit Harel
• Gayil Hareven
• Shulamith Hareven
  Shulamith Hareven
  Shulamith Hareven was an Israeli author and essayist.She was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a Zionist family. She immigrated to the Land of Israel with her parents in 1940....
  
  
• Raya Harnik
• Shmuel Hasfari
  Shmuel Hasfari
  Shmuel Hasfari is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter. He was artistic director of the Cameri Theatre.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hava Havushi
• Esty G. Hayim
• Haim Hazaz
  Haim Hazaz
  Haim Hazaz was an Israeli novelist.- Life :Hazaz was born in a small village in Ukraine, Russian Empire in 1898. He lived in a number of major European cities, including Kiev, Kharkiv, Moscow, Constantinople, Paris and Berlin before emigrating to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1931....
  
  
• Yael Hedaya
• Yehudit Hendel
• Pua Hershlag
• Dalia Hertz
• Amira Hess
  Amira Hess
  Amira Hess is an Israeli poet and artist. Arriving in Israel in 1951, she first lived in an immigrant transit camp, then moved to Jerusalem, where she still lives today. Her first book, And the Moon is Dripping Madness, was awarded the Luria Prize...
  
  
• Ayin Hillel
• Yoel Hoffmann
  Yoel Hoffmann
  Yoel Hoffmann is a contemporary Jewish author, editor, scholar and translator. He is currently a professor of Japanese poetry, Buddhism, and philosophy at the University of Haifa in Israel and lives in Galilee.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shifra Horn
  Shifra Horn
  .Shifra Horn is an Israeli author.-Biography:Shifra Horn was born in Tel Aviv. She lives in the Gilo neighbourhood of Jerusalem. After majoring in Bible Studies and Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she earned an MA in Bible Studies...
  
  
• Daniel Horowitz
  Daniel Horowitz
  Daniel Horowitz is an American defense attorney who has represented several high-profile clients including talk show host Michael Savage and is a frequent commentator in the media on criminal cases in the news.-Background:...
  
  
• Yaakov Hurgin
• Yair Hurvitz
  Yair Hurvitz
  Yair Hurvitz was an Israeli poet who began publishing poetry in the 1960's. His poems mark a return to the tradition of Haim Nachman Bialik...
  
  
• Shmuel Thomas Huppert

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• Yael Ichilov
• Naphtali Herz Imber
• Anat Israeli
• Boaz Izraeli
• Miron C. Izakson
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  Solomon ibn Gabirol
  Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah , was an Andalucian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. He was born in Málaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Aharon Avraham Kabak
• Yehudit Kafri
  Yehudit Kafri
  Yehudit Kafri Meiri is a 20th century Israeli poet and a writer.She was born in 1935 and lived as a child in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh in the Galilee area of Israel. After she got married, she moved to Kibbutz Sasa where she wrote her first book, called...
  
  
• Amalia Kahana-Carmon
  Amalia Kahana-Carmon
  Amalia Kahana-Carmon is an Israeli author, educator, and recipient of the Israel Prize for literature ....
  
  
• Yoram Kaniuk
  Yoram Kaniuk
  Yoram Kaniuk is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.-Biography:Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, Moshe Kaniuk, born in Ternopil, Galicia , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His grandfather was a Hebrew teacher who wrote his own textbooks....
  
  
• Sayed Kashua
  Sayed Kashua
  Sayed Kashua is an Israeli Arab author and journalist born in Tira, Israel, known for his books and humoristic columns in Hebrew.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shmuel Katz
• Yitzhak Katzenelson
  Yitzhak Katzenelson
  Itzhak Katzenelson נעלסאָן was a Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist. He was born in 1886 in Karelichy near Minsk, and was murdered May 1, 1944 in Auschwitz.Soon after his birth Katzenelson's family moved to Łódź, Poland, where he grew up...
  
  
• Amos Kenan
• Yehoshua Kenaz
  Yehoshua Kenaz
  -Biography:Glass was born in Petah Tikva, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in 1937. During the Second World War, his father worked for the British Army, and for a while the family moved to Haifa. He learned to play the violin. His brother Hilik was born when he was thirteen. He was drafted to...
  
  
• Rivka Keren
  Rivka Keren
  Rivka Keren 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 childhood, first in Hungarian, later in Hebrew...
  
  
• Etgar Keret
  Etgar Keret
  Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television.-Personal Life:Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. He is a third child to parents who survived the Holocaust. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Shira Geffen, and...
  
  
• Alona Kimhi
  Alona Kimhi
  Alona Kimhi is an Israeli author and actress.- Biography :Alona Kimhi was born in Lvov, Ukraine , in 1966 and emigrated to Israel with her family in 1972. Following her graduation from the Beit Zvi Academy for Performing Arts, she became a stage and film actress. In 1993, Kimhi started writing...
  
  
• Levin Kipnis
  Levin Kipnis
  Levin Kipnis was a children's author and poet who wrote mainly in Hebrew and Yiddish. He won the Israel prize in 1978.-Biography:Kipnis was born in Ushomir in Volhynian Governorate which was part of the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire , into a family of 12...
  
  
• Arthur Koestler
  Arthur Koestler
  Arthur Koestler CBE was a Hungarian author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria...
  
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• Ephraim Kishon
  Ephraim Kishon
  ' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :...
  
  
• Admiel Kosman
  Admiel Kosman
  Admiel Kosman 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 from Iraq...
  
  
• Abba Kovner
  Abba Kovner
  Abba Kovner was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.-Biography:...
  
  
• Asher Kravitz

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• Tsruya Lahav
• Yitzhak Lamdan
  Yitzhak Lamdan
  Yitzhak Lamdan was an Israeli poet, translator, editor and Hebrew columnist.- Biography :...
  
  
• Yitzhak Laor
  Yitzhak Laor
  Yitzhak Laor, is an Israeli poet, author and journalist. He is the author of . He is mostly known for his poetry of political protest, particularly about the Lebanese War of 1982 and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories...
  
  
• Haim Lapid
• Shulamit Lapid
• Yair Lapid
  Yair Lapid
  Yair Lapid is an Israeli journalist, author, TV presenter, and news anchor.-Biography:He is the son of politician Yosef Lapid and author...
  
  
• Iris Leal
• Micah Joseph Lebensohn
  Micah Joseph Lebensohn
  Micah Joseph Lebensohn Russian Hebrew poet.His father, the poet Abraham Bär Lebensohn, implanted in him the love of Hebrew poetry, and Micah Joseph began very early to translate and to compose Hebrew songs. He suffered from consumption during the last five or six years of his short life...
  
  
• Haim Lensky
  Haim Lensky
  Haim Lensky , 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....
  
  
• Motti Lerner
  Motti Lerner
  Motti Lerner is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter- Early life :He was born as in Zikhron Ya'akov, a village south of Haifa, in Israel. His great-grandparents immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1882 from Romania and Russia, and became farmers.- Education :He was educated at the local and...
  
  
• Ron Leshem
  Ron Leshem
  Ron Leshem , is an Israeli writer and media professional, and author of the novel Beaufort for which he won the 2006 Sapir Prize for Literature and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature...
  
  
• Hezi Leskali
  Hezi Leskali
  Hezi Leskali was born in Rehovot, Israel. He studied dancing and art in Holland. He worked as a painter and a choreographer, and published four books of poems. In 1992 he published Dutch Poetry - Four Imagined Dutch Poets and a Nonexistent Israeli Poet.-References:* The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself,...
  
  
• Eleonora Lev
• Yigal Lev
• Hanoch Levin
  Hanoch Levin
  Hanoch Levin , was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he is best known for his plays.- Early life :...
  
  
• Menashe Levin
• Yoav Levitas Halevy
• Itamar Levy
  Itamar Levy
  Itamar Levy is an Israeli author. He published six books in Hebrew, some were translated into various languages. Levy is mostly known as a book-finder who helps in locating hard-to-find books, and books that the requester has only little details on. As a part of this service Levy participates in...
  
  
• Savyon Liebrecht
  Savyon Liebrecht
  Savyon Liebrecht is one of Israel's best-known authors, although less known outside Israel. Born as the oldest child in Munich, Germany to Polish Holocaust survivors as Sabine Sosnowski, she moved to Israel in 1950....
  
  
• Baruch Linda
• Irit Linoor
• Ephraim E. Lisitzky
• Hana Livne
• Tzvi Livneh
• Marcela London

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• Mira Magen
• Rivka Magen
• Abraham Mapu
  Abraham Mapu
  Abraham Mapu was a Lithuanian-born Hebrew novelist of the Haskalah movement. His novels later served as a basis for the Zionist movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• Edna Mazya
• Yael Medini
• Ioram Melcer
• Aharon Megged
  Aharon Megged
  Aharon Megged is an Israeli author and playwright.-Biography:Aharon Megged was born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland, and in 1926 immigrated with his parents to Mandate Palestine. He grew up in Ra'anana, attending the Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv...
  
  
• Eyal Megged
• Mira Meir
• Sabina Messeg
• Sami Michael
  Sami Michael
  Sami Michael is an Israeli author. Since 2001, Michael has been the President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel .Michael was among the first in Israel to call for the creation of an independent Palestinian state to exist alongside Israel. In his novels Michael writes about the...
  
  
• Reuven Miran
• Rivka Miriam
• Agi Mishol
  Agi Mishol
  Agi Mishol is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Mishol was born in Transylvania, Romania, to Hungarian-speaking parents and brought to Israel as a young child. Her parents ran a grocery store in Gedera and spoke mainly Hungarian at home. Mishol holds BA and MA degrees in Hebrew literature from Hebrew...
  
  
• Hillel Mittelpunkt
• Mendele Mocher Sefarim
• Shula Modan
• Igal Mossinsohn
• Josef Mundy
  Josef Mundy
  Josef Mundy was an Israeli author and playwright.Josef Mundy was born in Bucharest to a prosperous family. At the age of 16 he immigrated to Israel. In the 1960s he spent a period in France, and spent significant time abroad throughout his life. Ha-Mashber, published in 1970, was his first play to...
  
  

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• Haim Nagid
• Eshkol Nevo
  Eshkol Nevo
  Eshkol Nevo , is an Israeli writer who has published a collection of short stories, two novels and a work of non-fiction. One of his novels, Homesick, was awarded the Book Publishers Association Gold Prize and the FFI-Raymond Wallier Prize at the Salon du Livre...
  
  
• Gidi Nevo
• Shlomo Nitzan
• Kobi Niv
• Yitzhak Noy

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• Ofra Ofer
• Aliza Olmert
  Aliza Olmert
  Aliza Olmert is an Israeli artist, photographer, author and social worker. Olmert is married to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.- Biography :...
  
  
• Dvora Omer
  Dvora Omer
  Dvora Omer is an Israeli author, born in 1932 in Kibbutz Ma'oz Haim in Mandatory Palestine.-Biography:Omer's parents divorced when she was a child, and when she was 11 years old, her mother was killed in a training accident, in the Hagana, a pre-state military organization. Her father, Moshe...
  
  
• Amir Or
  Amir Or
  Amir Or , is an Israeli editor, translator and award-winning poet whose works have been published in more than 30 languages.He is the author of seven volumes of poetry as of late 2006, and his latest book in Hebrew, The Song of Tahira is a fictional epic in metered prose.Individual poems by Amir...
  
  
• Ram Oren
  Ram Oren
  Ram Oren is a popular Israeli author who has sold an unprecedented 1 million books in Hebrew.Oren started writing books only at a relatively advanced age. At age 15, he began his journalistic career as a messenger boy for Yediot Aharonot. He advanced to editorship of important sections of the paper...
  
  
• Yitzhak Oren
• Dorit Orgad
• Jacob Orland
• Uri Orlev
  Uri Orlev
  Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...
  
  
• Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach
  Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach
  -Biography:Yitshak Orpaz was born in the Soviet Union. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine at the age of 17. He served in the British Army during the Second World War and in the Israel Defense Forces during the Israeli War of Independence. After the war he served in the regular army...
  
  
• Amos Oz
  Amos Oz
  Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....
  
  
• Kobi Oz
  Kobi Oz
  Kobi Oz is the lead singer of Israeli group Teapacks.-Biography:Yaakov Oz was born in Sderot to Tunisian Jewish parents. He began playing music and composing at the age of 15...
  
  

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• Dan Pagis
  Dan Pagis
  Dan Pagis was an Israeli poet, lecturer and holocaust survivor. He was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and imprisoned as a child in a concentration camp in Ukraine...
  
  
• Oded Peled
• Alexander Penn
  Alexander Penn
  -Early years:Penn was born in Nizhne Kolymsk, Russia. As a youth, he was a boxer. He moved to Moscow in 1920, to study cinema, and published his first poems in Russian that year. In 1927, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine...
  
  
• Isaac Loeb Peretz
• Lily Perry
• Israel Pinkas
  Israel Pinkas
  Israel Pincas is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Pincas was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935. He lost his father at the age of 6. As a boy, he emigrated as to the Mandate Palestine with his mother in 1944. He lives in Tel Aviv....
  
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• Hava Pincas-Cohen
• Elisha Porat
  Elisha Porat
  Elisha Porat , is a Hebrew poet and writer. He has published 19 volumes of fiction and poetry, in Hebrew, since 1973 and won the 1996 Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature. His works have appeared in translation in Israel, the United States, Canada and England...
  
  
• Gabriel Preil
  Gabriel Preil
  Gabriel Preil was a modern Hebrew poet active in the United States, who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish. He was the last of the Haskala poets. The critic Yael Feldman has done significant work on Preil, focusing on the Yiddish influences in his Hebrew poetry...
  
  

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• Esther Raab
• Ozer Rabin
• Dorit Rabinyan
• Rachel
• Naomi Ragen
  Naomi Ragen
  Naomi Ragen is an American-Israeli author, playwright and women’s rights activist.Ragen was born in New York City on July 10, 1949 and received an Orthodox Jewish education before completing a degree in literature at Brooklyn College , the same year she moved to Israel with her husband...
  
  
• Yonatan Ratosh
  Yonatan Ratosh
  Uriel Shelach , better known by his pen name Yonatan Ratosh , was an Israeli poet and the founder of the Canaanite movement.-Biography :...
  
  
• Dahlia Ravikovitch
  Dahlia Ravikovitch
  -Biography:Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan on November 27, 1936. She learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Levi, was a Russian-born Jewish engineer who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine from China. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher who came from a religious...
  
  
• Orit Raz
• Simcha Raz
• Janice Rebibo
  Janice Rebibo
  Janice Silverman Rebibo is a Boston-born Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s.Janice Silverman Rebibo’s poems have been admired for having, “a new strength and the kind of courage that comprises a strategic breakthrough, a stance of both audacity and humor that adds something...
  
  
• Abraham Regelson
  Abraham Regelson
  Abraham Regelson was a Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor.-Biography:Abraham Regelson was born in Hlusk, now Belarus, in the Russian Empire in 1896, and died at his home in Neveh Monossohn, Israel in 1981...
  
  
• Asher Reich
• Aharon Reuveni
• Yotam Reuveny
• David Rokeah
• Galila Ron-Feder Amit
  Galila Ron-Feder Amit
  - Biography :Born in Haifa, Israel and studied in the Hebrew Reali School and later Hebrew University of Jerusalem.She was married to Avi Feder and after their divorce married Meshulam Amit.She has 3 children....
  
  
• Yael Roseman
• Roee Rosen
• Ruvik Rosental
• Judith Rotem
• Miriam Roth
• Tuvya Ruebner

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• Rami Saari
  Rami Saari
  Rami Saari is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.-Biography:Saari studied Semitic and Uralic languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem. He did his PhD in linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral thesis, "Maltese Prepositions",...
  
  
• Chayim Sabato
• Pinhas Sadeh
• Yishay Sarid
• Yossi Sarid
  Yossi Sarid
  Yossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006...
  
  
• Igal Sarna
• Moshe Sartel
• Harold Schimmel
• Ilan Schoenfeld
• David Schutz
  David Schütz
  David Schütz is an Israeli fiction writer.-Biography:David Schütz was born in Berlin and immigrated to Israel at the age of seven....
  
  
• Nava Semel
  Nava Semel
  Nava Semel is an Israeli and internationally published author, playwright, screen writer and translator.-Biography:Nava Semel was born 1954 in Yaffo, daughter of Mimi and the late Itzhak Artzi, both Holocaust survivors. She is the younger sister of Israeli Rock star Shlomo Artzi.She has an MA in...
  
  
• Yonat and Alexander Sened
• Dan Benaya Seri
• Aharon Shabtai
  Aharon Shabtai
  Aharon Shabtai is one of the Hebrew language's leading poets, as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew.-Biography:...
  
  
• Yaakov Shabtai
  Yaakov Shabtai
  Yaakov Shabtai was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator.-Biography:Shabtai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine. In 1957, after completing military service, he joined Kibbutz Merhavia, but returned to Tel Aviv in 1967....
  
  
• Nathan Shaham
  Nathan Shaham
  -Biography:Born in Tel Aviv, Shaham has been a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa since 1945, and served with the Palmach in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He is the son of Eliezer Steinman, the Hebrew author and essayist....
  
  
• Orit Shaham-Gover
• David Shahar
• Gershon Shaked
  Gershon Shaked
  -Biography:Born Gerhard Mandel in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to Palestine alone in 1939, and was later followed by his parents. He attended Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv...
  
  
• Elinoam Shalev
• Meir Shalev
  Meir Shalev
  Meir Shalev is an Israeli writer. He is the son of the Jerusalemite poet Yitzchak Shalev. His cousin Zeruya Shalev is also a writer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Zeruya Shalev
  Zeruya Shalev
  Zeruya Shalev is a bestselling Israeli author.Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz Kinneret. She has an MA in Bible studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house...
  
  
• Shin Shalom
• Yitzhaq Shami
  Yitzhaq Shami
  Yitzhaq Shami was a Hebrew writer, one of the earliest modern Hebrew literature writers in Palestine, prior to Israeli statehood. His work was unique for his period, since in contrast with the vast majority of Hebrew writers of the period he crafted his art based on characters who were either...
  
  
• Moshe Shamir
  Moshe Shamir
  Moshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anton Shammas
  Anton Shammas
  -Biography:Anton Shammas was one of six children born to Hanna Shammas, a Palestinian Christian barber and shoemaker,and a Lebanese mother who moved to Fassuta in 1936 to teach French at the local girls' school...
  
  
• Amnon Shamosh
  Amnon Shamosh
  Amnon Shamosh is an Israeli author and poet.Shamosh was born in 1929 in Aleppo, Syria. In his childhood he immigrated to Palestine and participated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in a Palmach unit. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a founder of kibbutz Ma'ayan Barukh, where he...
  
  
• Yosef Sharon
• Avner Shats
  Avner Shats
  Avner Shats is an Israeli author and poet. Born in Kiryat Yam, Israel, he now lives in Haifa. Having attended the naval academy in Acre as a boy, Shats commanded a swift boat on the Dead Sea before going to work for a shipping company...
  
  
• Dan Shavit
• Ofer Shelach
• Tami Shem Tov
• Itzhak Shenhar
• Tzur Shezaf
  Tzur Shezaf
  Tsur Shezaf is an Israeli travel-book writer, journalist and novelist.Shezaf is currently a journalist for Ynet and was previously an editor for Masa Aher an Israeli geographical magazine between 1990 and 1999...
  
  
• Shin Shifra
• David Shimoni
  David Shimoni
  David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.David Shimonovitch was born in Babruysk in Belarus to Nissim Shimonovitch and Malka Fridland Although he lived in Ottoman Palestine for a year in 1909, he did not immigrate to British-administered Palestine...
  
  
• Youval Shimoni
• Avraham Shlonsky
  Avraham Shlonsky
  Avraham Shlonsky was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor born in Russian Empire.He was influential in the development of modern Hebrew and its literature in Israel through his many acclaimed translations of literary classics, particularly from Russian, as well as his own original...
  
  
• Eliezer Smoli
  Eliezer Smoli
  Eliezer Smoli was an Israeli writer, famous for his children's books.- Biography :Smoli was born in 1901 in the Volhynia region of western Ukraine...
  
  
• Zalman Shneur
  Zalman Shneur
  Zalman Shneur was an Israeli poet and writer.- Biography :Shneur was born in Shklov in Belarus in 1887. His parents were Isaac Zalkind and Feiga Sussman. At age 13, he left for Odessa, the center of literature and Zionism during this time...
  
  
• Matityahu Shoham
• Irit Shoshani
• Gershon Shufman
  Gershon Shufman
  Gershon Shoffman was an Israeli writer and painter.- Biography :Shoffman was born in Orsha , in the Russian Empire in 1880. His parents were Zalman Shoffman and Feiga Haya Levin...
  
  
• Ephraim Sidon
  Ephraim Sidon
  Ephraim Sidon is a renowned Israeli author, playwright and satirist, cherished for both for his satirical work and his children's books.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dvora Silverstein
• Aryeh Sivan
• Moshe Smilansky
• Shoham Smith
• Peretz Smolenskin
• Eliezer Smoli
  Eliezer Smoli
  Eliezer Smoli was an Israeli writer, famous for his children's books.- Biography :Smoli was born in 1901 in the Volhynia region of western Ukraine...
  
  
• Michal Snunit
  Michal Snunit
  - Biography :Michal Snunit was born on a Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh in Israel, of which her Belgian-born parents were founding members. She studied Hebrew literature and theater at Tel Aviv University and has worked in agriculture, with kibbutz children and later as a journalist in a daily newspaper....
  
  
• Yehoshua Sobol
  Yehoshua Sobol
  Joshua Sobol, also known as Yehoshua Sobol , is an Israeli playwright, writer, and director at theatres in Israel and abroad.He is married to Edna, set and costume designer...
  
  
• Ronny Someck
  Ronny Someck
  Ronny Someck is an Israeli poet and author, whose works have been translated into many languages.-Biography:Someck was born in Baghdad and came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art...
  
  
• Jacob Steinberg
  Jacob Steinberg
  Jacob Steinberg was a major Ukrainian-born Israeli poet. He moved to the Land of Israel in 1915. He defied trends in two significant ways: his poetry was individualistic rather than nationalistic, and he wrote in the Ashkenazic dialect rather than the Sephardic dialect, which became the accepted...
  
  
• Zeljko Stanojevic
• Yehuda Steinberg
• Eliezer Steinman
  Eliezer Steinman
  Eliezer Steinman was a Russian-born Israeli writer, journalist and editor.-Biography:Steinman was born in 1892 in a village in Podolia in the Russian Empire, later part of Poland, now in Ukraine. In his youth, while studying in Chişinău to obtain semikhah to become a rabbi, he began to publish his...
  
  
• Esther Streit-Wortzel
• Yossi Sucary
• Albert Suissa

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• Mordechai Tabib
• Chaim Tadmon
• Rachel Talshir
• Benjamin Tammuz
  Benjamin Tammuz
  Benjamin Tammuz 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 Soviet Russia...
  
  
• Shlomo Tanny
• Gadi Taub
• Udi Taub
• Shaul Tchernichovsky
  Shaul Tchernichovsky
  Shaul Tchernichovsky , was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.- Life :...
  
  
• Yona Tepper
• Ben-Zion Tomer
• Avner Treinin
  Avner Treinin
  Avner Treinin was an Israeli poet and professor of physical chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.-Biography:Treinin was born in Tel Aviv on February 14, 1928. At the age of two his family moved to Jerusalem...
  
  
• Noga Treves
• Dan Tsalka
  Dan Tsalka
  -Biography:Dan Tsalka was born in 1936 in Warsaw. In World War II his family fled to the Soviet Union, where they lived in Siberia and then Kazakhstan. At the close of the war, when he was ten, he returned with his family to Poland, to the city of Wrocław...
  
  
• Shai Tubali
• Uri Tzaig
  Uri Tzaig
  Uri Tzaig is an Israeli artist. Tzaig was born in Qiryat Gat and currently lives in Tel Aviv.Tzaig, who has a background in theater, works often in multimedia, video, and installations. His installations have appeared at the Centre Georges Pompidou, MASS MoCA, and other major international...
  
  

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• Yehuda Yaari
• Zvi Yair
  Zvi Yair
  Zvi Yair is the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz . Zvi Yair was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew.-Biography:...
  
  
• Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
  Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
  Miriam Yalan-Shteklis was an Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books. Her surname, Yalan, was an acronym based on her father’s name, Yehuda Leib Nissan.-Biography:...
  
  
• Itamar Yaoz-Kest
• Abraham B. Yehoshua
• Avoth Yeshurun
  Avoth Yeshurun
  Avoth Yeshurun , also Avot Yeshurun, was the pen name of Yehiel Perlmutter, an acclaimed modern Hebrew poet.-Biography:...
  
  
• S. Yizhar
  S. Yizhar
  Yizhar Smilansky , better known by his pen name S. Yizhar , was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in modern Hebrew literature.His pen name was given to him by the poet and editor Yitzhak Lamdan, when in 1938 he published Yizhar's first story Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa in his literary...
  
  
• Natan Yonatan
  Natan Yonatan
  Natan Yonatan 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, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....
  
  

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• Natan Zach
• Nurit Zarchi
  Nurit Zarchi
  Nurit Zarchi is an Israeli poet and author for adults and children....
  
  
• Zelda
• Benny Ziffer
  Benny Ziffer
  Benny Ziffer is an Israeli author and journalist.-Life and career:Ziffer was born in Tel Aviv. His parents, Heinz and Nira , immigrated to Israel from Turkey in 1949. Ziffer studied French literature and political science. He is married to Irit, and they have three children...
  
  
• Shimon Zimmer
• Klil Zisapel
• Eda Zoritte-Megged
• Shiri Zuck

See also

• List of Hebrew language poets
• List of Hebrew language playwrights
• Culture of Israel
  Culture of Israel
  The culture of Israel developed long before the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 and combines the heritage of secular and religious lives. Much of the diversity in Israel's culture comes from the diversity of its population...
  
  

External links

• author biographies at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature