Ezra Haddad
1903–1972 (age 69)
Biography
Ezra Haddad, born in 1903, helped shape early Hebrew prose by giving voice to the hopes and anxieties of the nascent Jewish society.
His attentive storytelling reflected both local and diaspora legacies, leaving readers with a sense of the everyday struggles of that era, and his name is preserved at Kiryat Shaul.