Pnina Moed-Kass

Pnina Moed-Kass was born in 1938 in Belgium

Pnina Moed-Kass was born in Belgium in 1938 and grew up in New York City. She studied political science and art history.

She worked in advertising and the music industry, and taught high school English in the United States. In New York she met the Israeli businessman Israel Kass, who owned the Meir car and truck company. After they married, she moved to Israel in 1968 and taught English there too.

Her first children's books, Stevie's Tricycle and Tommy's New Bed, were written in English. She wrote short stories for the BBC, articles for Metropolitan Opera magazine, and songs and scripts for Israeli educational television. Her Berele series follows a snail, an idea that came from her children collecting snails on rainy days.

Her novel Real Time (2004) tells the stories of several characters whose lives meet in a suicide bombing on a bus near Jerusalem. The book received the Sydney Taylor Book Award. She is a mother of 3 sons and lives in Herzliya.