"I was born in Hungary in 1924, and reborn in 1949, in Israel," was Ephraim Kishon's own summary of his life, which in fact saw many more rebirths and incarnations, most famously as a writer of ...

Unbowed by the horrors of the Holocaust, Ephraim Kishon immigrated to Israel and become his adopted country’s most beloved humorist. But Kishon died in semi-exile Saturday at 80, driven back to Europe ...

Best-selling humorist Ephraim Kishon, a Holocaust survivor who captured Israel’s foibles in biting satires, has died. He was 80. Kishon, who won the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement in 2003, died ...

The world lost one of its great comic artists last month. I am referring not to Johnny Carson, who was little known outside of the United States, but to Israeli satirist Ephraim Kishon, 80, who, ...

They say that comedy is tragedy plus time. That sagacious view of how temporal gaps can allow us to joke about cataclysmic events that were anything but funny to those who experienced them informs the ...

Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israel's premier satirist, whose biting wit shaped the national agenda of the formative years of the Jewish state and kept people laughing at the same time, died Jan. 29 at his ...

Ephraim Kishon, a Holocaust survivor who became one of Israel’s best-known humorists with his satirical books and movies, died in Switzerland on Jan. 29 of an apparent heart attack. He was 80. Kishon ...

Ephraim Kishon, novelist, playwright, journalist and filmmaker, has died aged 80 in Switzerland. He was loved in Germany as much as in his adopted homeland of Israel for his acerbic wit. Kishon ...