Rustic Sunset

Yitzhak Ben-Ner

1976

The years have done their work. After a couple of years I appealed to the wife of Yuta’s son Uri to bring Iza to see her mother before leaving for the army. She is a fine girl from our village who understands my pleas. After a while Uri came also. It is a great joy to me that he’s married one of the village girls. In the next generation this whole…

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Yitzhak Ben-Ner

b. 1937

A journalist, playwright, and media personality, Yitzhak Ben-Ner was born and raised in Kfar Yehoshua and studied literature and drama at Tel Aviv University. Ben-Ner lives in Tel Aviv, where he heads the department of writing and screenwriting at the Camera Obscura School of Art. He received the Levy Eshkol prize in 2006.

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