Moshe Shamir

Moshe Shamir (Hebrew משה שמיר; born September 15, 1921 in Safed; † August 20, 2004 in Rishon LeZion ) was an Israeli writer.

Moshe Shamir became famous for his 1951 novel, A king of flesh and blood, a historical novel about the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus. Shamir also wrote children 's books and plays. In his younger years he was a policy perspective rather left. He sympathized with the Mapam. After the Six Day War in 1967, he joined the Movement for Greater Israel, which wanted to annex the conquered in war zones, and later a group of instruments based Likud was. He was elected to the Knesset and rejected the peace treaty with Egypt from. He then founded the extreme right party Techija.