Yitzhak Quenan

Yitzhak Quenan was born in 1942 in Morocco

Yitzhak Kenan was born in Morocco in 1942 under the name Yitzhak Eknin. He came to Israel in 1952 with Youth Aliyah. He grew up at the Neve Hadassah Youth Village and Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak.

He served in the Nahal and fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He studied at the Nahalal Teachers' Seminary and earned a bachelor's degree in history and Hebrew literature at the University of Haifa. He worked as a teacher and school principal in Beit She'an.

In 1974 he was elected head of the Beit She'an Council for the Labor Party and served 2 terms until 1983. In 1984 he went to France as a Youth Aliyah envoy, and from 1987 to 1992 he was director general of Art for the People. From 2001 to 2004 he was again in France as a Jewish Agency envoy.

He wrote the lyrics of the song Yam HaShibolim, later performed by the Gevatron. He also published short stories, novels, a play, a children's book and screenplays.

He died in Kfar Saba on October 14, 2021, and was buried there. He had 4 children. In 2023 a street in Kiryat Yam was named after him.