Leon Kipnis, storyteller and author of some 1,000 stories for children, on which three generations of Israeli children have grown up, died Wednesday at the age of 96. He was buried Thursday.
Kipnis also wrote hundreds of poems, many of them set to music and still favorites on Israeli musical programs. His songs were sung at get-togethers of young and old.
Born in the Ukraine, Kipnis came to Palestine in 1913 and quickly began publishing his stories and poems in children’s newspapers and journals, continuing until shortly before his death.
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