Wikipedia's first sentence called it “writer from israel”. Today it says “israeli author”.
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Gail Hareven is an Israeli author. She has eleven books and in 2002, she was awarded the Sapir Prize for Literature for The Confessions of Noa Weber , about the struggle between feminist ideology and yearning for love and spirituality. The Confessions of Noa Weber is her first book translated into English. It won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award for the Hebrew to English translation by Dalya Bilu. According to one literary critic, "Hareven's insights into desperate yearning are so dead on and painfully astute, the experience can be eviscerating. That the work is also witty and compelling will leave American readers, encountering Hareven for the first time, almost certainly pining for more." In 2012, Hareven was an artist-in-residence at Mount Holyoke College .1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Gail Haraven is a writer from Israel. She is the author of six novels and three short story collections, as well as plays and nonfiction. She was awarded the prestigious Sapir Prize for Literature for The Confessions of Noa Weber , and currently lives in Jerusalem.
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Gail Hareven ( ); born 1959 Jerusalem ) is an Israeli author.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli author Gail Hareven ( ); born 1959 Jerusalem ) is an Israeli author.
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Israeli author Gail Hareven ( Hebrew : גַּיִל הַרְאֶבֶן ; born 1959 Jerusalem ) is an Israeli author.
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writer from israel
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israeli author
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