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Erez Biton (b. 1942 in Oran , Algeria ) is an Hebrew poet.1Born in North Africa , he immigrated to Israel in 1948. At the age of 10, he was blinded by a stray hand grenade that he found. He spent the rest of his childhood in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind . He received a degree in social work from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Later in life, he studied psychology in Bar Ilan University . Biton was a journalist and published a weekly column in the Israeli newspaper Maariv . Biton has published 3 poetry books: "Mincha Marokait" ( , A Moroccan present , 1976); "Sefer Hana'na" ( , Book of mint , 1979); "Tsipor bein Yabashot" ( , A bird between land , 1990).2
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Erez Biton Erez Biton (born 1942 in Oran , Algeria ) is an Israeli poet of Moroccan descent.He is the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry, among other literary awards.
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Erez Biton Erez Biton ( ; born 1942 in Oran , Algeria ) is an Israeli poet of Algerian and Moroccan descent. He is the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry, among other literary awards.
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Erez Biton Erez Biton ( ; born 1942 in Oran , Algeria ) is an Algerian-born Israeli poet of Moroccan descent. He is the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry, among other literary awards.
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Algerian-born Israeli poet Erez Biton ( Hebrew : ארז ביטון ; born 1942 in Oran , Algeria ) is an Algerian-born Israeli poet of Moroccan descent. He is the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry, among other literary awards.
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hebrew poet
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algerian-born israeli poet of moroccan descent
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