Tirtza Atar

Tirtza Atar was born in 1941 in Tel Aviv

Tirtza Atar was born Tirtza Alterman in Tel Aviv in 1941. Her parents were the poet Nathan Alterman and the theater actress Rachel Marcus. Her pen name Atar is a shortened form of Alterman.

She went to Tel Nordau Elementary School and Ironi D' High School. As a student she appeared as an extra in plays at the Cameri Theatre.

In 1958 she joined the IDF and sang in the Armored Corps Entertainment Troupe. In 1962 she married Oded Kotler and went with him to New York to study acting. After a mental health crisis there, she came back to Israel with her father.

She acted at the Zavit Theatre and at Habima, then left the stage to write and translate. Her song "Suddenly Now, Suddenly Today" won the 1970 Israel Song Festival. She translated over 30 plays from English to Hebrew.

She later married Binyamin Salor and had two children, Yael and Nathan. She died in 1977 after falling from the window of her home in Tel Aviv. The police found she may have lost her balance from dizziness.