About Yitzhak Orpaz
Lived 1921 – 2015 (aged 93). Yitzhak Orpaz was a Russian and Israeli poet and writer.
Yitzhak Orpaz (, ; 15 October 1921 – 14 August 2015) was an Israeli writer.
Biography Yitzhak Averbuch was born in Zinkiv in Soviet Ukraine. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1938 at the age of 17.
In 1942, Averbuch found out that his parents and sister had all died in the Holocaust. Afterwards, he enlisted in the British Army and served in the Jewish Brigade during the Second World War. After returning to British Palestine, he shortly worked as a diamond polisher before returning to the battlefield, this time as an artillery officer in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. After the war he served in the regular army.
He studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University.
Awards Orpaz has received the following awards:
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Who was Yitzhak Orpaz?
Israeli writer (1921–2015)
When was Yitzhak Orpaz born?
Yitzhak Orpaz was born on 15 October 1921 in Zinkiv.
When did Yitzhak Orpaz die?
Yitzhak Orpaz died on 14 August 2015.
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Yitzhak Orpaz was a poet and writer.
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Yitzhak Orpaz was Russian and Israeli.
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