Aharon Megged

He grew up in Ra'anana, attending Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv.

After graduation, he joined a Zionist pioneering youth movement, training at Kibbutz Giv'at Brenner.

Megged was one of the founders of the Masa literary weekly, and its editor for fifteen years.

He worked as a literary editor for the Hebrew newspapers La-merhav and Davar.

He made several lecture tours of the United States, and was also author-in-residence at the University of Iowa.

Megged, 1958
Megged, 1958
Megged's grave, Kinneret cemetery
Megged's grave, Kinneret cemetery