Naomi Frankel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Naomi Frankel

Berlin-born Israeli author

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1918

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 20-Nov-2009

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Germany, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Naomi Frankel (20 November 1918 – 20 November 2009), also spelled Fraenkel and Frenkel, was a German-Israeli novelist.
Born in Berlin, she was evacuated to Mandatory Palestine with other German-Jewish children in 1933.
She became a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa, where she lived until 1970.
She began writing novels in 1956 and achieved fame with her trilogy Shaul ve-Yohannah (Saul and Joanna), a three-generational tale of an assimilated German-Jewish family in prewar Germany.
She wrote four other novels for adults as well as several books for children.
In the 1980s Frankel abandoned her leftist convictions and adopted right-wing ideology, settling in the West Bank, where she died in 2009, aged 91.