Moshe Shamir

Moshe Shamir was born in Safed on 15 September 1921 and grew up in Tel Aviv, where he attended the Herzliya Gymnasium. A member of Hashomer Hatzair, whose newspaper he edited until 1941, he lived from 1941 to 1947 at kibbutz Mishmar Haemek and served in the Palmach. His brother Elik fell in 1948; he dedicated Be-mo yadav to him, one of the country's greatest bookshop successes. After 1967, he was one of the founders of the Greater Israel movement and sat in the Knesset from 1977 to 1981. Israel Prize laureate in 1988, he died in Rishon LeZion on 21 August 2004.

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• Novelהוא הלך בשדותMoshe Shamir · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature