Meir Shalov (Photo: Niv Aharonson)
The award-winning writer and journalist Meir Shalu passed away today (Tuesday) after several months of fighting cancer.
He was 74 years old when he died.
Shalu was born in July 1948 in Moshav Nahalel, son of poet and writer Yitzhak Shalu and teacher Batia.
In his youth he moved with his family to Kibbutz Ginosar and then to the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem.
He studied at the high school next to the Hebrew University.
In the army he served in the Golani Patrol, and in the Six Day War he participated in the Battle of Tel Fachar.
In November 1967, in the war of attrition in the Jordan Valley, he was wounded by four bullets from the fire of our forces.
He received a bachelor's degree in psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
In 1969, his anti-war poem "On the Opinion of the Boys" was published.
The first books he published were "Lying to Tzim" in 1982 and "Tanach Now" in 1985. In 1988, the first novel from his pen was published, "Roman Russian". After that he published eight more novels, various non-fiction books and children's books. His books won to great success and were translated into about twenty languages.
Shalev submitted press criticism columns on television, including a satirical column on the TV show "Ali Otala", and hosted the program "Seh Tova" that was broadcast on Saturday evening on Channel One.
In the 1980s, he began to publish a regular journalistic column on Fridays, which began to appear in Haaretz, and after several years moved to Yediot Ahronoth.
Besides his "Russian novel", he published a series of books for adults and children, many of which were translated into foreign languages and won awards in Israel and around the world.
Among his selected works are "Esho", "Khimim Ahadim", "In his house in the desert", "Yona and a boy", "Khimim Ahadim", "Father makes a shame", "Hakina Nachama", "Zohar's dimples", "Aunt Michal" , "Roni and Nomi and the bear Yaakov" and many others.
His last book, "Don't Tell Your Brother", was published in 2022.
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