Yoram Kaniuk (Hebrew: יורם קניוק; May 2, 1930 – June 8, 2013) was an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theatre critic.

His father, Moshe Kaniuk [he], was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was born in Ternopil, Galicia, which is now in Ukraine but was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[2] In 1958 while living in the USA, Kaniuk married Miranda Baker, a Christian woman, and returned to Israel with her.

[5] He befriended Charlie Parker in New York City in the fifties and made out with Billie Holiday, who wrote him a song.

He had been spared death by the good graces of a British sniper, and stripped of his sabra arrogance by a story a young man told him about pulling diamonds from the rectums of his dead parents in order to stay alive in Nazi-occupied Europe.

The petition came after the birth of his grandson, Omri, who was registered as having "no religion" due to not being Jewish under the Halakhic definition used by Israeli civil law.

The late writers Anthony Burgess and Kurt Vonnegut have influenced his unsettling style of political satire.