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Didi Menosi ( ; 9 May 1928 – 20 December 2013) was an Israeli writer, journalist, poet, lyricist, dramatist, columnist and satirist.1 Menosi was born on Kibbutz Geva in the Jezreel Valley , at the time Mandatory Palestine . He studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1962 to 2000, his rhyming satirical column dealing with current events was published each week in the mass-circulation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth . In 2006, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease . Didi Menosi died on the morning of 20 December 2013, aged 85, at his home in Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv District , Israel . He was survived by his wife of 54 years, Tzila Menosi, and three children.
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Didi Menosi ( ; 9 May 1928 – 20 December 2013) was an Israeli writer, journalist, poet, lyricist, dramatist, columnist and satirist. Menosi was born on Kibbutz Geva in the Jezreel Valley , at the time Mandatory Palestine . He studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1962 to 2000, his rhyming satirical column dealing with current events was published each week in the mass-circulation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth . In 2006, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease . Didi Menosi died on the morning of 20 December 2013, aged 85, at his home in Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv District , Israel . He was survived by his wife of 54 years, Tzila Menosi, and three children.
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Israeli writer and satirist (1928–2013) Didi Menosi ( Hebrew : דידי מנוסי ; 9 May 1928 – 20 December 2013) was an Israeli poet, lyricist, dramatist, columnist and satirist. Menosi was born on Kibbutz Geva in the Jezreel Valley , at the time Mandatory Palestine . He studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1962 to 2000, his rhyming satirical column dealing with current events was published each week in the mass-circulation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth . In 2006, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease . Didi Menosi died on the morning of 20 December 2013, aged 85, at his home in Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv District , Israel . He was survived by his wife of 54 years, Tzila Menosi, and three children.
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