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Irit Linur

Irit Linur is an Israeli writer, journalist and radio host, known for the novel The Siren's Song and the Army Radio show The Final Word.

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Born: 18 October 1961, Tel Aviv
Occupation: writer, journalist, film director
Education: Tel Aviv University

Irit Linur was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv

Irit Linur was born in Tel Aviv on October 18, 1961, and grew up there. She served in the IDF as an officer in the Artillery Corps. She holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and psychology from Tel Aviv University.

She began as a satirical columnist, writing for the weekly Koteret Rashit and then for Hadashot until it closed in 1993. She later wrote the closing column of the Haaretz weekend magazine. In January 2020 she began a regular column in Israel Hayom.

Her first novel, The Siren's Song, came out in 1991 and is set during the Gulf War in Tel Aviv. It became a 1994 film, for which she wrote the screenplay. Later books include Two Snow Whites, The Secret Blonde, Sandler Ella, The Brown Girls, which became a TV series, and Mrs. Warburg in 2014.

From 1998 to 2024 she co-hosted The Final Word on Army Radio. In December 2017 she was suspended from the station for a week after insulting President Reuven Rivlin on air. She also appeared as a panelist on The Patriots on Channel 20 and was appointed a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.