Naomi Frankel

Naomi Frankel (; 20 November 1918 – 20 November 2009), also spelled Fraenkel and Frenkel, was a German-born Israeli novelist. Born in Berlin, she was evacuated to Mandatory Palestine with other German-Jewish children in 1933. She became a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa, where she lived until 1970. She began writing novels in 1956 and achieved fame with her trilogy Shaul ve-Yohannah (Saul and Joanna), a three-generational tale of an assimilated German-Jewish family in prewar Germany. She wrote four other novels for adults as well as several books for children. In the 1980s Frankel abandoned her leftist convictions and adopted right-wing ideology, settling in the West Bank, where she died in 2009, aged 91.

Early life and education Naomi Frankel was born into an affluent, assimilated Jewish family in Berlin, Germany on 20 November 1918. In depicting the rise and fall of prewar German-Jewish culture, Frankel concludes that only Zionism and a strong Jewish state can protect the Jewish people from persecution. after her second husband's death (Yisrael Rosenzweig), and moved to Tel Aviv following her marriage to her third husband (Meir Ben-Gur). From 1970 to 1978 she worked for the Israeli Navy, editing classified army and navy protocols from the period before and after the Yom Kippur War, and attained the rank of rav-seren (lieutenant commander). Her break with left-wing ideology caused the left-leaning arts community to shun her. In accordance with her wishes, she was buried in Kibbutz Beit Alfa beside her second husband.