Yigal Mossinson

The novelist and playwright Yigal Mossinson was born in ‘Ein Ganim in pre-state Israel, and studied agriculture. From 1943 to 1949, he served in the Palmach and the Israeli Defense Forces. In 1954 he wrote the stage play Casablan, a work that explored the tensions experienced by immigrants from Morocco and other Mizrahi nations; the work became a landmark film. Mossinson lived in the United States from 1959 to 1965. In the 1950s, Mossinson turned to writing thriller stories for children, with the series Ḥasamba.