The Opening to the Story

Moshe Shamir

1953

After I published my son’s literary estate in a book, I still had a few scraps of writing and documents of various kinds that I didn’t know how to put together with everything that seemed clear and logical to me, and for that reason they never saw the light in print. Once I started seeking some method that would solve a few of these riddles…

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Moshe Shamir

1921–2004

Moshe Shamir, born in Safed and educated in Tel Aviv, was an Israeli politician, novelist, playwright, and journalist who popularized the idea of the sabra, the strong, native “new” Israeli. During Israel’s War of Independence, Shamir served in the Palmach. After the Six-Day War, Shamir moved from the left to the right of the Israeli political spectrum. He served in the Knesset from 1977 to 1981. The author of more than fifty books, Shamir received the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature in 1988.

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