The Adventures in Short of Ferdinand Pedahtsur

Efrayim Sidon was born in Tel Aviv, and is a journalist, satirist, playwright, and children’s author. In the early 1970s, he wrote weekly columns for Haolam hazeh and Maariv. He also created television satires that addressed social and political topics, for which he achieved cult status. Many of his works for children were adapted for the stage and television. In 2004, he was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.

Yossi Abolafia (also known as Yosi Abulaffya) is a writer, illustrator, and cartoonist who was born in Tiberias. A has worked as a director, scriptwriter, and animator for Israel TV, Canadian TV, the Canadian Film Service, and other venues. He is head of the animation department at the Bezalel Academy of Art, where he is a senior lecturer. Abolafia created a satirical comic strip for the daily newspaper, Maariv. He has written several books for children and illustrated over 100 books in Israel and the US. He has twice been the recipient of the Andersen Citation for Illustration and the Ben-Zvi Prize and was awarded the Nahum Gutman Prize for Illustration in 1993.