Didi Menosi דידי מנוסי | |
Birth Name: | Didi Menosi |
Birth Date: | 9 May 1928 |
Birth Place: | Kibbutz Geva, Jezreel Valley, Mandatory Palestine |
Death Place: | Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel |
Alma Mater: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Occupation: | Writer, journalist, poet, lyricist, dramatist, columnist, satirist |
Spouse: | Tzila Menosi (1959–2013; his death) |
Children: | 3 |
Years Active: | 1962–2000 |
Didi Menosi (Hebrew: דידי מנוסי; 9 May 1928 – 20 December 2013) was an Israeli writer, journalist, poet, lyricist, dramatist, columnist and satirist.
Menosi was born on Kibbutz Geva in the Jezreel Valley, at the time Mandatory Palestine. He studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1962 to 2000, his rhyming satirical column dealing with current events was published each week in the mass-circulation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.[1]
In 2006, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Didi Menosi died on the morning of 20 December 2013, aged 85, at his home in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel. He was survived by his wife of 54 years, Tzila Menosi, and three children.[2]