Yoram Wearth

Yoram Wearth was born in 1954 in Jerusalem

Yoram Wearth was born in Jerusalem in January 1954 and grew up there. His father was the historian Meir Wearth and his mother was the literary scholar and translator Ada Tzemach. His sister is the writer Tamar Wearth-Zehavi and his brother is the director Dani Wearth.

He studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium and finished in 1972. After his army service he studied philosophy and Jewish thought at the Hebrew University.

He joined the IDF in 1972 and served in Battalion 890 of the paratroopers. He was wounded in the leg at the battle of the Chinese Farm in the Yom Kippur War.

In 1988 he founded Red Line Against the Occupation with Dov Yermiya and Alon Porat, a Jewish and Arab group active in the West Bank. In 1999 he took part in a film by Nir Toib about the Chinese Farm battle, where he gave his view of why the paratroopers were sent into it. He teaches creative writing at the Hebrew University and at the Oranim art school, and won the Bernstein Prize in 1997.

Since 1986 he has lived in Klil in the Western Galilee. He is married to Amal, daughter of Netiva Ben-Yehuda, and they have 2 sons and 2 daughters.