Ayin Hillel
ע. הלל
Ayin Hillel (Hillel Omer, 1926-1990) was born in a kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley. He served in the elite Palmach unit during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, and spent his later years in Tel Aviv. As Jerusalem’s chief landscape architect from 1954 to 1969, he designed the city’s botanical and biblical gardens and continued to work in landscaping after he moved to Tel Aviv. A beloved author of children’s literature, he published several volumes of poetry for adults as well. Ayin Hillel received both the Fichman Prize and an Andersen Honor Citation (1976).
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