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Yair Agmon

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Yair Agmon was born in Jerusalem in 1987 and still lives there today. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish environment, he graduated from a yeshiva (school for Jewish studies). At present, he is studying cinema at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, and working as a guide at Yad Vashem – the Holocaust Museum and Research Center.

Short films he directed have been screened in Israel and New York and a short story of his won a judges’ commendation in the Haaretz short story competition in 2011.

Agmon published his first book while serving in the army.

The Books

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  • Book of Longing

    [She-Mashehu Yikreh]
    Fiction Novel
    Keter 2016

  • Yair and Jonathan – No Book for Old Men

    [Yair Vi-Yehonatan]
    Fiction
    Zmora-Bitan 2014

  • Natives

    [Am Ha-Aretz: Sipur Masa]
    Non Fiction Travel
    Zmora-Bitan 2011

  • Guns and Moses: Refreshing and Cheerful Thoughts of a Soldier about the Weekly Portions & the Holidays

    [Chapash: Machshavot Tzva'iyot U-Mechuyachot Al Parshiyot Ha-Shavua Ve-Ha-Mo'adim]
    Non Fiction
    R. Mass 2009