Eda Zoritte

Eda Zoritte was born in 1926 in Tel Aviv

Eda Zoritte was born in Tel Aviv on 9 February 1926, under the name Ida Tsirlin. She graduated from the teachers' seminary in Jaffa, now the Levinsky College of Education.

She studied dance and theater in the United States. There she acted in the Hebrew theater Pargod, directed by Peter Frye.

After returning to Israel, she began in 1952 to publish essays on literature and art in Masa and other papers. She wrote a study of Nathan Alterman's poetry, a partial biography of Amir Gilboa and a biography of Avoth Yeshurun. She also wrote historical novels about the wife of Theodor Herzl, about Ira Jan and Hayim Nahman Bialik, and about Zila Binder and Nathan Alterman.

Her plays were staged in London in 1970 and by the Karov Theatre in 2010. She received the Prime Minister's Award in 1981 and 2000. She is the widow of writer Aharon Megged, and her sons are writer Eyal Megged and historian Amos Megged.