(New York Times) Shmuel Rosner - Author Dvora Omer, who died at 80, was an Israel Prize laureate, a best-selling author and a household name among young readers in the 1970s and 1980s. She is mostly remembered for bringing Israel's founders to the attention of children. As one eulogizer put it, she made young readers discover that they were "part of a larger and ancient story, magnificent and dangerous, soaked in blood and love and tears and glory." Omer's epic accounts made us children of the '70s and '80s appreciate the price that was paid to establish Israel more than half a century ago. She wrote about Sarah Aaronsohn, a member of the Nili spy ring, who worked to rid Palestine of Ottoman rule. She wrote about the lovers Shmulik and Zohara, members of the underground Palmach, who were killed in action. She dramatized the life of Itamar Ben Avi, the first child to use Hebrew as an everyday language. She created the fictional Tabul, a boy of Moroccan origin who becomes a fighter in the navy's commando unit.
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