Dan Almagor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dan Almagor

Israeli playwright

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1935

Place of Birth: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Profession: writer, translator, songwriter, television presenter, linguist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Dan Almagor (Hebrew: ?? ???????; born 1935) is an Israeli playwright who has adapted and translated over a hundred plays for the Hebrew stage, including Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors", "As You Like It", "Fiddler on the Roof," "The King and I," "My Fair Lady" and "Guys and Dolls".Almagor (born Dan Shmuel Elblinger) was born in Ramat Gan, Mandatory Palestine, but grew up in Rehovot.
His father was an agronomist who left Warsaw for Palestine in 1923.His early songs, such as A Ballad for the Medic and Kol Ha’Kavod, celebrated Israeli macho culture and military heroism, but much of his later work is satiric and critical of Israeli society