Biography

Yitshak Orpaz was born in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine at the age of 17. He served in the British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 during the Second World War and in the Israel Defense Forces

Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal , are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel...

 during the Israeli War of Independence. After the war he served in the regular army. He studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at Tel-Aviv University.

His first book Wild Grass was published in 1959.

External links

• Yitzhak Orpaz bibliography at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
• Israel Prize Official Site - CV of Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach