Peretz Kidron
Israeli journalist and translator
Peretz Kidron (Hebrew: פרץ קדרון; 29 July 1933 – 6 November 2011) was an Israeli writer, journalist and translator.
Biography
Kidron was born in Vienna, the son of Sara and Herman Kirchenbaum [Kay] who were devoted Zionists and supporters of the Jewish state. His family escaped to Great Britain in 1938 following the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. After completing his secondary education in Britain, he emigrated to Israel, where he lived on and off in Zikim, a kibbutz in southern Israel, for about 15 years. Both of his children were born on the kibbutz. During this period, Kidron was sent by the kibbutz to the UK as a youth leader for the Zionist leftist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair, to prepare and bring Jewish youth to immigrate to Israel. In the early 1970s, he graduated from Tel-Aviv University with a degree in English and translation.
Starting in the late 1960s, Kidron became active in the Israeli peace movement. In 1975, he was a founding member of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and served on the steering committee of the human rights group B'Tselem. Kidron was a long-time Israel correspondent for the British magazine Middle East International.
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