Haim Be'er

Haim Be'er (Hebrew: חיים באר), born on 9 February 1945, is an Israeli novelist.

In 1966, he began working at the Am Oved publishing house, first as a copyeditor and later as an editor and member of the editorial board.

For ten years, he wrote a weekly column called "Memoirs of a Bookworm" (Mi-zikhronoteha shel tolaat sefarim).

Be'er's latest novel, El Makom Sheharuakh Holekh, ("Back from Heavenly Lake"; 2010), was inspired by a trek to Nepal and Tibet.

Dedicated to the classic Yiddish writer Mendele Mocher Sforim, it is a mystical tale about a Hasidic rebbe from Bnei Brak who travels to Tibet.