The Road to Ein Harod

Amos Kenan

1984

Not a word about Ein Harod on the official radio. All the official communiqués were broadcast. Directives to obey. Directives to obey directives. Directives prohibiting assemblies. Directives not to travel anywhere without official passes. But no Ein Harod. Did it really no longer exist?

In any event I had no choice. If Ein Harod existed, that was…

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Creator Bio

Amos Kenan

1927–2009

Born in Tel Aviv, author, playwright, and sculptor Amos Kenan joined the Leḥi underground and fought in Israel’s War of Independence. In the early 1950s, he wrote a satirical column for the newspaper Haaretz. He lived for a few years in Paris, later returning to Israel where he was a long-time columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aḥaronot. A peace activist, Kenan won the Brenner Prize for Literature in 2000.

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