Erez Biton

Erez Biton (b. 1942 in Oran, Algeria) is an Israeli poet. Born in North Africa, he immigrated to Israel in 1948. Blinded by a stray hand grenade that he found, he spent the rest of his childhood in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind. He received a degree in psychology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His poem "Zayish" tells the story of his blinding (Zayish was his childhood nickname).

Bibliography

*"The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself", 2003, ISBN 0-8143-2485-1