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Sapir Prize
The Sapir Prize for Literature of Israel is a prestigious annual literary award presented for a work of literature in the Hebrew language. The prize is awarded by Mifal HaPayis (Israel's state lottery), and is a part of the organization's cultural initiatives. It bears the name of the late Pinhas Sapir, a former Finance Minister of Israel, and was first awarded in 2000. Prize money The Sapir Prize, based on the British Man Booker Prize, is the most lucrative literary prize awarded in Israel. Of five shortlisted titles, the winning author receives 150,000 NIS (roughly 39,000 USD), and the four runners-up each receive 40,000 NIS. For the year 2019, a new award will be granted for a debut work. Up to three candidates will receive a prize of 20,000 NIS, with the winner receiving 40,000 NIS. Prize rules The group of judges for the prize is composed of prominent literary figures, whose names are kept confidential until the prize winner is named. Some of these judges are replaced fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mifal HaPayis
Mifal HaPais ( he, מפעל הפיס) is the national lottery of Israel. Most gambling is illegal in Israel. The only bodies licensed to provide betting services are Mifal HaPais and The Israeli Sports Betting Council. In 2012, Mifal HaPais's annual revenue was estimated at a year.The number's up / Treasury leaves nothing to chance, takes control of lottery Haaretz History 
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Sami Berdugo
Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise network of malaria researchers People * Samee, also spelled Sami, a male given name * Sami (name), including lists of people with the given name or surname * Sámi people, indigenous people of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Kola Peninsula, Karelia and Finland ** Sámi cuisine ** Sámi languages, of the Sami people ** Sámi shamanism, a faith of the Sami people Places * Sápmi, a cultural region in Northern Europe * Sami (ancient city), in Elis, Greece * Sami Bay, east of Sami, Cephalonia * Sami District, Gambia * Sami, Burkina Faso, a district of the Banwa Province * Sami, Cephalonia, a municipality in Greece * Sami, Gujarat, a town in Patan district of Gujarat, India * Sami, Paletwa, a town in Chin State, Myanmar * Sämi, a village in Lä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Shilo
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Zvi Yanai
Zvi Yanai (Hebrew: צבי ינאי ; June 9, 1935 – December 16, 2013) was an Israeli civil servant and author. Biography Sandro Toth (later Zvi Yanai) was born in Pescara, Italy. His father was a baritone singer from Budapest and his mother was a prima ballerina from Gratz, Austria. They were not married. His father was Christian and his mother was Jewish. He was raised as a Protestant but converted to Catholicism in 1942 and studied for the priesthood. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine at the age of 10 and was sent to Kibbutz Ramat David Ramat David ( he, רָמַת דָּוִד, ''lit.'' David Heights) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley near Ramat David Airbase, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population .... He later served in the Israel Defense Forces and worked at IBM-Israel for many years. Yanai became a self-described atheist, but nevertheless felt a strong connection to Jewish history an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alon Hilu
Alon Ḥilu ( he, אלון חילו) (born Jaffa, Israel, June 21, 1972) is an Israeli novelist. His first novel, '' Death of a Monk'' (Xargol, 2004), is based on a historical blood libel against the Jews in Damascus, Syria, and offers an original homosexual interpretation for the historical events. The novel was shortlisted for the prestigious Sapir Prize in Israel (2005), was awarded the Presidential Prize for literature (Israel, 2006) and has been translated into English (Harvill Secker, London), French (Edition Du Seuil, Paris), Greek (Metaichmio, Athens) and Dutch (Ambo Anthos, Amsterdam). Hilu's second novel, '' The House of Rajani'' (Harvill Secker, Random House UK), a fictional retelling of the history of early Zionism, was published in Hebrew in February 2008 by Yedioth Sfarim. The novel initially received the 2009 Sapir Prize, but after claims were made regarding a conflict of interests among the judges (Yossi Sarid, the head judge of the committee, was related to the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram ( or ) is a name derived from Jehoram (), meaning "Jehovah is exalted" in Biblical Hebrew, which was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh; the female version of this name is Athaliah. Notable people with the name include: *Yoram Aridor (born 1933), former right-wing Israeli politician, Knesset member and minister *Yoram Barzel (born 1931), Israeli economist and a professor of economics at the University of Washington *Yoram Bauman (born 1973), American economist and stand-up comedian * Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Yoram Chaiter (born 1964), physician, cancer researcher and bass singer *Yoram Danziger (born 1953), Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, appointed to the Court in 2007 *Yoram Dinstein (born 1936), Israeli President of Tel Aviv University *Yoram Dori (born 1950), strategic advisor to Shimon Peres when the latter was President of Israel *Yoram Globus (born 1941), Israeli director and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haggai Linik
Haggai (; he, חַגַּי – ''Ḥaggay''; Koine Greek: Ἀγγαῖος; la, Aggaeus) was a Hebrew prophet during the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the author of the Book of Haggai. He is known for his prophecy in 520 BCE, commanding the Jews to rebuild the Temple. He was the first of three post-exile prophets from the Neo-Babylonian Exile of the House of Judah (with Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who lived about one hundred years later), who belonged to the period of Jewish history which began after the return from captivity in Babylon. His name means "my holidays." The name Haggai, with various vocalizations, is also found in the Book of Esther, as a eunuch servant of the Queen. Life Scarcely anything is known of his personal history, with the book of Haggai offering no biographical details about his ancestry or anything else in his life outside the prophecies of 520 BCE. Haggai is onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimon Adaf
Shimon Adaf ( he, שמעון אדף, born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot. Biography Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, ''Icarus' Monologue'', won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli newspapers. In 2000–2005, he worked as a prose editor for Keter Publishing House. He is currently the chair of the creative writing program at Ben Gurion University in Israel. In 2013, he won Israel's prestigious Sapir Prize for his novel ''Mox Nox.'' He was interviewed on the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020. Awards * 2007 - Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works * 2010 - Yehuda Amichai Award * 2012 - Sapir Prize * 2017 - Newman Prize Books Poetry * ''Icarus' Monologue'', 1997 * ''That Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body'', 2002 * ''Aviva-No'', 2009 Prose (All titles given in approximate Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noa Yedlin
Noa Yedlin (Hebrew: נעה ידלין, born 23 December 1975) is an Israeli writer, columnist and screenwriter. Her books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Sapir Prize (2013) and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (2021). Yedlin has published numerous opinion pieces and articles, has been a presenter on television and radio, and she teaches creative writing. Biography Noa Yedlin was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. She studied BA (1996–1999) and MA (2000–2002) in East Asian Studies in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the 1990s and up until 2013 she worked as a journalist and senior editor for several Israeli newspapers. She has been teaching creative writing in Israel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beit Ariela central public library in Tel Aviv). She lives in Tel Aviv, married to Doron Nachum and has two children. Work * ''The Wrong Book'' (הספר הלא נכון): novel, Israel: Kinneret Zmora, Dvir, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ruined House
''The Ruined House'' ( he, הבית אשר נחרב, lit. ''The House that was Destroyed'') is an originally Hebrew language book by Reuven Namdar written and set in New York City. The book was the 2014 winner of the Sapir Prize.Tablet Magazin/ref> References New York City in fiction 2014 novels Hebrew-language novels {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruined House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Namdar
Reuben or Reuven ( he, רְאוּבֵן, Standard ''Rəʾūven'', Tiberian ''Rŭʾūḇēn'') was the first of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob’s oldest son), according to the Book of Genesis. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Reuben. Etymology The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of ''Reuben'', which textual scholars attribute to different sources: one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist; the first explanation given by the Torah is that the name refers to God having witnessed Leah's misery, in regard to her status as the less-favourite of Jacob's wives, implying that the etymology of ''Reuben'' derives from ''raa beonyi'', meaning ''he has seen my misery''; the second explanation is that the name refers to Leah's hope that Reuben's birth will make Jacob love her, implying a derivation from ''yeehabani'', meaning ''he will love me''. (This is not mainstream, and has only been suggested by one bible critic. Yeehabani is not re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Castel-Bloom
Orly Castel-Bloom ( he, אורלי קסטל-בלום) is an Israeli author. Biography Orly Castel-Bloom was born in Northern Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of French-speaking Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French. She studied film at Tel Aviv University and theater at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan. Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children. She has lectured at the universities of Harvard, UCLA, University Cambridge, Cambridge and University of Oxford, Oxford and currently teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv University. Literary career Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, ''Not Far from the Center of Town'' (''Lo Rahok mi-Merkhaz ha-Ir'')'','' was published in 1987 by Am Oved. She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 novel ''Dolly City'', has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, and in 1999 she was named one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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