Amos Kenan

Amos Kenan was born in Tel Aviv in 1917. During his youth he was a member of the Stern group, but soon after 1948 he began working for Arab-Israeli peace. During the 1970s he was co-founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Council. A leading journalist in Israel, he has written for "Haaretz, Haolam Hazeh, "and" Yediot Ahronot," to which he contributes a regular satirical column. He is the author of several novels and plays, one of which was the target of censorship in Israel, and is widely...See more

Amos Kenan was born in Tel Aviv in 1917. During his youth he was a member of the Stern group, but soon after 1948 he began working for Arab-Israeli peace. During the 1970s he was co-founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Council. A leading journalist in Israel, he has written for "Haaretz, Haolam Hazeh, "and" Yediot Ahronot," to which he contributes a regular satirical column. He is the author of several novels and plays, one of which was the target of censorship in Israel, and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. See less