Yigal Mossinson

Yigal Mossinson was born in 1917 in Ein Ganim

Mossinson was born in 1917 in Ein Ganim, near Petah Tikva, to Asher and Dvora Mossinson. He grew up in Tel Aviv. His brother Moshe Mossinson was also an author, and his niece is the author Dvora Omer.

He studied in Kibbutz Beit Alfa from 1928 and moved to the Ben Shemen youth village in 1932. From 1938 to 1950 he lived in Kibbutz Na'an.

He joined the Palmach in 1943. In June 1946 the British arrested him and held him in Latrun and Rafah for five months. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he was a cultural officer in the Givati unit.

His first story appeared in the newspaper Al HaMishmar in 1944. After publishing A Man's Way he had to leave Na'an, and he began writing the Hasamba books. He wrote plays such as In the Plains of the Negev and Casablan, worked as a spokesman for the police and the Habima Theatre, and founded the Sadan Theatre in 1957, which later closed.

In 1959 he moved to the United States and helped adapt Casablan into a film released in 1964. He returned to Israel in 1965. In his later years he developed inventions and registered several patents. He died in 1994.