Efrayim Sidon was born in Tel Aviv, and is a journalist, satirist, playwright, and children’s author. In the early 1970s, he wrote weekly columns for Haolam hazeh and Maariv. He also created television satires that addressed social and political topics, for which he achieved cult status. Many of his works for children were adapted for the stage and television. In 2004, he was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.
How many know
the number of creatures is endless?
So many know,
only a gasp in their questions is possible.
All that fullness—
of wounds that won’t scar over.
pain’s grillework
persisting in…
He spent much time at the home of Nona Fortuna and Grandpapa Jacquo. After a night on the town, he would fall asleep fully clothed on the couch in their living room, or in Uncle Sicourelle’s bed with…
Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual…