The Israeli author and poet Yehuda Atlas died on Thursday at the age of 89, Sourasky Medical Center's Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv announced.
"Yehuda was an eternal child until his last moments. In his life, he acted and worked for people out of emotion and a desire to help. He was an editor, children's writer, and translator, and in his last years he wrote about children at risk out of a sense of mission. May his memory be blessed," read the statement.
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