Yehezkel Hameiri

1934–1989 (age 55)

Biography

Yehezkel Hameiri's voice captured the textures of Galilee life, composing stories and essays that celebrated the region's people, landscapes, and inner struggles while anchoring Israeli literature in the mountainous north.

Through decades of writing, he offered readers both tenderness and challenge, and the Safed old cemetery now holds the writer who chronicled the heartbeat of the north.

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