By Israel Shamir ∙ June 19, 2002
Israel Shamir was born Izrail Schmerler in Novosibirsk, Siberia, in 1947, to Jewish parents. Later on, he taught mathematics and law at Novosibirsk University. He moved to Israel in 1969, served as paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. After the war, he returned to his study of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but then abandoned this in favor of a career in journalism. In 1984, Shamir left Israel and moved to Sweden, where he was naturalized in 1992. Ever since, he has been at various times a resident of Russia, Israel and Sweden. In 2004, Shamir was baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church.
Shamir’s writing focuses on the plight of the Palestinians, hence he is by necessity a devoted anti-Zionist. He has also frequently spoken out in defense of revisionism and the revisionists’ right to freedom of expression.
View all postsBibliographic information about this document: Israel Shamir, GALILEE FLOWERS: The Collected Essays of Israel Shamir, 2001-2002 during the Second Intifada
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