S. Yizhar
S. Yizhar was the pen name of Yizhar Smilansky, born in Rehovot, Palestine, in 1916. A longtime member of the Knesset, he is perhaps most famous as the author of Khirbet Khizeh and the 1,156-page magnum opus, Days of Tziklag. He died in 2006.
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Khirbet Khizeh
S. Yizhar
‘No one knows how to wait like soldiers. There is no time or place that soldiers are not waiting and waiting.’